W H Smith shareholders have approved plans to pay chief executive Carl Cowling a £550,000 bonus, despite threats of a revolt earlier this week.
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Writer and poet Derek Owusu is to chair the judging panel for the National Centre for Writing's (NCW) £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novels.
The new partnership highlights the Sheikh Zayed Book Award's translation prize and funding and supports the UK's National Centre's work. The post Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre and Zayed Award Enter a UK Translation Partnership appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The 2022 in-person Emirates Airline Festival of Literature will feature the Emirates Literature Foundation's opening of ELF Publishing. The post Emirates Airline Festival of Literature To Create an Independent Press appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The Polish publishing market, though seeing strength in the pandemic in its digital infrastructure, has struggled with profit margins. The post Polish Publishing Update: Growth Cited in Pandemic-Era Online Sales appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The Booker prize-winning author’s new novel Lessons is ‘a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime’Ian McEwan’s “most epic book to date”, moving from the end of the second world war to the current pandemic and exploring the impact of childhood trauma, will be published this autumn.The Booker…
Intellectual property rule changes were mooted in the wake of Brexit but have been shelved after warnings about how this could hit writers’ incomesAfter authors including Kate Mosse and Philip Pullman warned that proposals to change the UK’s copyright laws could be “devastating” for writers, the government has paused its plans.The Intellectual Property Office launched…
Book retailers say they have been able to cope in recent weeks despite the Omicron wave hitting staff, while most UK publishers continue to ask people to work from home and keep their offices open for employees who need them.
HQ has scooped two more "emotional and uplifting" novels from Anna Bell
John Murray’s new literary crime and thriller imprint is launching with a line-up of authors including Mick Herron, Frankie Boyle and Kaoru Takamura, among others.