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The newsletter platform has poached big names including Salman Rushdie along with a slew of comic book authors from DC and MarvelThe subscription newsletter platform Substack announced on Wednesday it had signed an exclusive deal with Salman Rushdie – but he is just the latest in a growing number of authors making the leap to…

Penguin Business has inked a deal for the “definitive book on the future of hybrid working” by London Business School professor Lynda Gratton. 

Sandstone Press has acquired world rights to Puffins: Life on the Atlantic Edge directly from photographer and author Kevin Morgans. 

PRH imprint Vermilion has scooped a “landmark” new full-color book from five-time number one New York Times bestselling author Dr Brené Brown.

Sir Quentin Blake has designed the cover for Tamesis Street, a forthcoming climate change story by global disaster relief organisation ShelterBox featuring an all-star list of contributors.

American writer Janice Deal’s “Lost City” has won the Moth Short Story Prize 2021, judged by Ali Smith, while Stratford-upon-Avon butcher Kathy Stevens has scooped second prize. 

Amazon is planning a global recruitment drive to hire 55,000 staff, including 2,500 in the UK, to accommodate the demand for online retail and digital advertising.

Trigger warning: unpopular opinion. I have long despised the idea of writers’ retreats. I entirely agree with the concept itself but felt it was in desperate need of diversification in order to suit different personality types and minds. 

Critics have dubbed Sally Rooney’s third book, Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber), a “tour de force” with one calling it the author’s best novel.

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