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Hodderscape will host the Mo Siewcharran Prize for 2024.

Tom and Giovanna Fletcher, Laura Henry-Allain MBE and Lydia Bright spoke at Ladybird and Puffin’s Picture Books Showcase.

Lynda La Plante and James Lee Burke have been announced as the featured guests at CrimeFest, the Bristol-based crime fiction convention. 

A new independent publisher called Foundry Editions is launching in the summer, publishing its first three English-translation titles from and about the Mediterranean Basin.

First-timer Georgia Summers becomes the latest author to ride the subscription box wave to the top spot in a very strong week overall for the fantasy market.

From Germany's Reading Monitor 2023: Families read aloud together more when children ask their parents for it. The post In Germany: A Nationwide Reading Competition Offers New Advice appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre hosts discussion of a UAE architectural guide translated into English by Musa Al-Halool. The post Abu Dhabi’s Arabic Language Centre on Architecture appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

A star-studded roster of actors, broadcasters and comedians have been announced as judges of The British Book Awards 2024.

Hodder & Stoughton will publish a 50th anniversary special hardback edition of Stephen King’s Carrie featuring a new introduction by Margaret Atwood.

This enjoyable meta-level adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure tackles black-victimhood stereotypes, showcasing Jeffrey Wright and Issa Rae as rival writersThelonious “Monk” Ellison is a middle-aged black humanities professor in Los Angeles, roundly disliked by students and faculty colleagues, who is the author of many intellectually demanding and commercially disastrous novels based on classical…