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Beyond the Book, a new literature festival founded by author David Fennell, will take place this spring at the Friends Meeting House in Brighton, on 6th April 2024. 

The Blair Partnership will represent Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Children’s Charity to "build out the unique and vast opportunities" of J M Barrie’s children’s classic, Peter Pan, and the world of Neverland, to be managed outside the charity for the first time.

Swedish audiobook distributor Storytel’s official year-end earnings report shows net sales up 9% in 2023 to 3,489m SEK (£265m).

Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley have selected six books to add to their spring W H Smith Book Club, including books by Jessica Knoll, Emilia Hart and Will Dean.

Books by Bia Melo and Kingsley Nebechi are among the 17-strong longlist for the Klaus Flugge Prize for a published picture book by a debut illustrator.

RELX, the parent company of Elsevier and RX, formerly Reed Exhibitions, saw revenue increase to £9.2bn for the year to 31st December 2023, up 8% from £8.6bn the year before.

Gina Kim has been awarded the Sebastian Walker Award for Illustration, run by Walker Books in collaboration with Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge School of Art’s MA in Children’s Book Illustration.

Arts Council England (ACE) has clarified the reasons for the changes it has made to its Relationship Framework for Funded Organisations, which tells the organisations it funds to be wary of "overtly political or activist" statements. 

Johannes Larcher, CEO of Sweden's Storytel, says that performance in 2023 saw the non-Nordic subscriber base pass 1 million consumers. The post Stockholm: Storytel’s 2023 Report Leads to ‘Ambitious Targets’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Women's Prize Trust in the United Kingdom releases the first 16-title longlist in its new Women's Prize for Nonfiction. The post The UK’s New £30,000 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction Issues Its First Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.