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Margaret Atwood’s "visionary" new work of non-fiction, Burning Questions Essays 2004–2021, will be published by Chatto & Windus in March 2022. 

Tramp Press is moving into audiobooks, launching with Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White, read by the author.

At Night All Blood is Black (Pushkin Press) by David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis, has won the £50,000 International Booker Prize, making Diop the first French author to win the award. 

Talking of 'At Night All Blood Is Black' as both 'frightening' and 'powerful,' the International Booker jury announces its 2021 selection. The post International Booker: David Diop, Anna Moschovakis appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Harry Potter publisher issues third profit upgrade of 2021 after sales increase to £185mCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLockdown reading has helped the Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury to its third profit upgrade of the year after a 22% surge in annual pre-tax profits.The company said people had “rediscovered the joy of reading” during…

Four debut novels have made it on to the shortlist for this year's Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.

Musih Tedji Xaviere and Bhavika Govil are the joint winners of the first Pontas & J J Bola Emerging Writers Prize.

Bloomsbury’s acquisition of academic imprint Red Globe Press (RGP) from Macmillan Education Limited has now been completed in a £3.7m deal. 

Hachette UK has won at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards for its work on inclusivity in publishing, in a prize sponsored by the Publishers' Association (PA).

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