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Witness Books has acquired an exploration of real-world solutions to climate change from journalist and presenter Tom Heap, backed by a BBC Radio 4 series and a foreword from Arnold Schwarzenegger.  

More than 1,500 e-books will be available on Pearson’s new Netflix-style student subscription app, Pearson+, which will also feature notetaking features and audiobooks. 

A funeral for award-winning crime author Clare Dunkel, published under the name Mo Hayder, will be held later this month.

Actress Tanya Reynolds will read the audiobook of Elizabeth Day’s forthcoming novel Magpie (Fourth Estate) which will be released along with the hardback and e-book on 2nd September.

HarperCollins' Elevate network for Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff has donated £10,000 to three charities focused on helping under-represented communities throughout the UK. 

Marvin Thompson and Zoë Brigley Thompson are the first poets to join Poetry Wales as joint editors of the magazine with Thompson the journal’s first editor of colour. 

David Olusoga has written a new foreword for Hodder & Stoughton reissue of Black history classic The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, more than 230 years after its original publication.

Leïla Slimani's third novel The Country of Others (Faber & Faber) picked up reviews in The Bookseller, the Guardian, the Times and the Financial Times this week. 

With the Hay Festival's board having endorsed an independent investigation, the program's co-founding director has resigned. The post Peter Florence’s Resignation: Wales’ Hay Festival Seeks New Leadership appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

With the Hay Festival's board having endorsed an independent investigation, the program's co-founding director has resigned. The post Peter Florence’s Resignation: Wales’ Hay Festival Seeks New Leadership appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.