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"Downton Abbey" star Joanne Froggatt has been announced as the narrator for Lisa Jewell's latest thriller, The Night She Disappeared (Cornerstone).

HQ has scooped a "taboo-busting" book on the menopause by TV presenter Davina McCall. 

Wildfire will publish The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide, a memoir from activist Nice Leng’ete, in partnership with Little, Brown US and Amref Health Africa.

Mhairi McFarlane’s Last Night (HarperCollins) leapt into the Bookstat e-book number one for the week ending 17th July, jumping one place to the top spot.

Raven Leilani (pictured) Tayari Jones, Kate Mosse and David Baddiel are among authors appearing at this year's Cliveden Literary Festival, which will take place as a live event this autumn.

Just before Christmas 2019, a friend who worked at a major UK publisher messaged me to ask whether I could help advise them on how to get onto TikTok. They had seen the first ripples of the app’s success breaking on the shore, and thought it may be useful to try and meet the next…

Penguin Random House is to publish "a collection of candid, intimate, and entertaining conversations" between former President of the United States Barack Obama and musician Bruce Springsteen, based on their shared podcast, with the VIking imprint bringing out the book in the UK. 

Chris Whitaker has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year with We Begin At The End (Zaffre). Meanwhile, Brian McGilloway's political thriller The Last Crossing (Constable) has been highly commended for the award, in an unprecedented decision to recognise his "exceptional" novel.

Lana Hughes has been appointed editorial intern at independent press flipped eye.

Anticipating producing 50 titles per year from Australia, Welbeck's Marcus Leaver and Mark Smith are partnering with retailer Tony Nash. The post The UK’s Welbeck Publishing Group To Publish in Australia, New Zealand appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.