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Simon & Schuster UK has signed an “unputdownable” new book from internationally bestselling author Ruth Ware in a two-book deal.

Penguin Michael Joseph has signed a “unique” Holocaust memoir about the unlikely friendship between a young Jewish girl and a stray cat by Mala Kacenberg.

Oxford University Press (OUP) has published a global report on the digital divide in education, following the shift to online learning during the pandemic, which reveals disadvantaged students have been "significantly affected". 

A group of YA authors have been forced to backtrack over plans for a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) story following an online backlash against the project. 

Entrepreneur Etan Ilfeld, owner of the Watkins Media Group, has bought John Hunt Publishing (JHP) for an undisclosed sum. 

Canongate has scooped a personal memoir from Scottish writer and visual artist Amanda Thomson.

The latest augmented and virtual reality technology will be brought to 15 libraries across the country next summer, as part of a new project to help support libraries recover from the coronavirus pandemic. 

How often do we hear an engineer’s voice in books? Roma Agrawal and her critically-acclaimed Built - The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures (Bloomsbury Press), comes to mind, but I’m struggling to think of many others.

An original fragment from the first folio, estimated to be worth up to $100,000, will be auctioned this weekAn “exceedingly rare” fragment from Shakespeare’s first folio, comprising the whole of the play Henry IV Part One, is to be auctioned this week.The play has been authenticated as an original fragment from Shakespeare’s first folio by…

With a goal of becoming Guest of Honor Philippines at Frankfurt, the market's collective stand organizers offered work from 15 publishers. The post The Philippines’ Collective Stand at Frankfurt: ‘Culture and Identity’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.