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The Booksellers Association has appointed Ruth Hunter as its consumer publications editor.

Bookshop.org is launching a book drive to donate copies of Jack Monroe’s new book Thrifty Kitchen (Bluebird) to food banks across the UK, in partnership with the Trussell Trust. 

John Murray Press has created “huge” Christmas campaigns for Billy Connolly and Miriam Margolyes and their respective memoirs Windswept and Interesting and This Much Is True, originally published in hardback in 2021, and both in paperback this year. 

English teachers in England and Wales are working with a "largely unchanged" drama text curriculum, as new research by Bloomsbury finds almost all A-Level texts are written by white playwrights. 

Percival Everett has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for his “powerful and important” novel The Trees, published by Influx Press.  

Edinburgh International Book Festival has told The Bookseller it hopes to “preserve as much of the festival programme as we can” as other literary festivals also feel the pinch.

The 36th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair will showcase 70 children's performances and Guest of Honor Sharjah. The post Guadalajara International Book Fair Prepares Weekend Opening appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The 50,000-franc Jan Michalski Prize-winner is Taina Tervonen's 'The Gravediggers,' called by jurors 'an incredibly powerful book.' The post Taina Tervonen’s ‘Les fossoyeuses’ Wins Switzerland’s 2022 Jan Michalski Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

By year's end, Wiley says, 28 percent of its journal portfolio will be fully open access. This is its fifth-year Projekt Deal extension. The post Wiley Announces a New Extension of Its Projekt DEAL Agreement appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Sally Hayden, John Boyne and Marian Keyes were among the winning authors at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards held in the Convention Centre Dublin this evening (23rd November).