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The Publishers’ Publicity Circle (PPC) is opening its mentoring scheme for new enrolments for 2022, after last year's mentor pairings doubled owing to high demand. 

When you think back over our experience of the pandemic so far, it is hard avoid bumping into the buzzwords. 2021 has been marked by many and frenzied discussions around topics such as representation and inclusion. And while there have been significant leaps and strides in these areas in the publishing industry - such as…

The Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) has published the results of new research into environmental impacts on the supply chain, setting five key targets to make the industry more sustainable.

The United Talent Agency (UTA) has recruited its first UK-based agent with Zoe Nelson taking on the role of foreign rights director.  

Lee and Andrew Child’s Better Off Dead (Transworld) has done the double, notching up both the print and e-book number ones for the week ending 30th October. 

Nadine Dorries has challenged publishers to do more to support libraries and open up access to the industry for those from underprivileged backgrounds. 

Damon Galgut has won the Booker Prize with The Promise (Chatto & Windus), hailed by judges as “a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh”. 

Calling himself 'a writer fascinated by the edge of the map,' South Africa's Damon Galgut finally wins the Booker on his third shortlisting. The post South Africa’s Damon Galgut Wins the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Calling himself 'a writer fascinated by the edge of the map,' South Africa's Damon Galgut finally wins the Booker on his third shortlisting. The post South Africa’s Damon Galgut Wins the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

My aunt, Moira Paterson, who has died aged 85, moved from a small town in Scotland to pursue a career in publishing and journalism that included stints in Geneva and Jerusalem and work as a subeditor and features writer with the Radio Times and the Observer in London.She was born near Crossmichael in Kirckcudbrightshire, to…