Trade

The celebrations will also include trade promotions and a window competition inviting booksellers to curate their own T&H classics.

Manchester Central Library has partnered with representatives from Simon & Schuster UK and HarperNorth to host a one-day festival aimed at encouraging romance readers to discover new authors. 

EmpathyLab has unveiled its 2024 Read for Empathy book collection of 65 books for three to 16-year-olds, featuring the likes of Neil Gaiman, Jeffrey Boakye, Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho, Hannah Gold, Phil Earle and Nadia Shireen. 

Bea Fitzgerald, Ellan Rankin, Pari Thomson and Natalie Labarre have been shortlisted for the £5,000 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, which is voted on by booksellers.

Izzie Ghaffari-Parker has stepped up at Transworld.

This year's Society of Authors Translation Prizes honor literary translation into English from Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, French, Spanish, Arabic, and German. The post Purses Totaling £28,000: The UK’s 2024 Translation Prize Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Book publishers in the Czech Republic praise their legislators for removing the 10-percent value-added tax formerly levied on books. The post Cheers in the Czech Republic for the End of VAT on Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Enterprise Mobility and the National Literacy Trust are donating 25,000 copies of Tolá Okogwu’s Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun (Simon & Schuster Children’s UK) to 255 schools across the UK.

Canelo is expanding its business by moving into non-fiction and has announced a series of promotions and new hires. 

CILIP is launching Future Libraries, a toolkit and report to reimagine libraries against a changing world.