Hannah Chukwu, assistant editor at PRH imprint Hamish Hamilton, has won the Arts & Media Rising Star award at this year's Black British Business Awards.
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The Booker Prize will showcase its shortlisted authors with hybrid appearances at Coventry University and the Southbank Centre before the winner is announced at BBC Broadcasting House's Radio Theatre on the big night.
The New Futures Initiative - launched at the end of September and announced in The Bookseller - is a scheme to reach out to individuals from underrepresented groups and encourage them - through mentoring and tangible support - to open a bricks and mortar bookshop.
Rebecca Servadio at London Literary Scouting has been appointed UK literary scout for Piper Verlag and Berlin Verlag in Germany following the retirement of Heather Schiller.
AAP's Maria A. Pallante praises 'the incredible dedication and innovation of the industry' in a remarkable year's outcome. The post AAP StatShot Annual Report 2020: US Book Revenues Flat at $25.71 Billion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
AAP's Maria A. Pallante praises 'the incredible dedication and innovation of the industry' in a remarkable year's outcome. The post AAP StatShot Annual Report 2020: US Book Revenues Flat at $25.71 Billion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The historian Margaret MacMillan, a former Cundill History Prize jury chair, speaks with current chair, Michael Ignatieff, in a Frankfurt Studio event. The post Frankfurt Studio: Canada’s Cundill History Prize to Name Its 2021 Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The historian Margaret MacMillan, a former Cundill History Prize jury chair, speaks with current chair, Michael Ignatieff, in a Frankfurt Studio event. The post Frankfurt Studio: Canada’s Cundill History Prize to Name Its 2021 Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
Canada's first Indigenous governor general, Mary May Simon, is to include Frankfurt Book Fair in her state visit to Germany this month. The post Canada’s Governor General, Mary May Simon, Announces She’ll Attend Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The annual event known as ‘Super Thursday’, when most of the hardbacks aimed at the Christmas market are published, promises big names and a boon for the industryBookshops will be pinning their hopes for healthy sales this Christmas on titles that include the final novels of the late John le Carré and Andrea Camilleri, and…