Trade

Headline Home has acquired Five Steps to Financial Wellbeing by Clare Seal, author of Real Life Money and The Real Life Money Journal, which were both published by the Headline imprint in 2020.

The publicity and marketing campaign for Billy Connolly's autobiography Windswept & Interesting (Two Roads) will see a two-part serialisation in the Mail on Sunday, billboards across Scotland and a special "Billy Day" in bookshops. 

Connor Allen and Casi Wyn have been named as the new Welsh poet laureates for children.

Baroness Gail Rebuck has been appointed as the new chair of the board of Somerset House Trust. She remains a director of Penguin Random House.

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".

Colm Tóibín and Eimear McBride are among the writers appearing at the Irish Cultural Centre’s upcoming literary festival, A Celebration of Contemporary Irish Writing. 

HarperNonFiction has scooped a new book from author and journalist Douglas Murray.

Digital content and learning is nothing new. Academic journals and books have been online for decades, many universities offer massive open online courses (MOOCs), and most of us have digital search tools at our fingertips most of the time. But the pandemic has accelerated existing trends, cramming as much as a decade’s worth of digital…

Duckworth Books has acquired Nice is Not a Biscuit, an "insightful guide on how to build a world-class business by doing the right thing" from Peter Mead. 

Independent publisher The Pound Project is running a campaign for short story "Under Orion" by illustrator Amber Fossey, better known as Zeppelinmoon.