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Remote working has led to longer hours and isolation for many but also represents a chance to reconfigure the industry, the US Book Show was told in an event kicked off by Oprah Winfrey.

Seth Rogen's Yearbook (Sphere) soared 12 places to top the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart, as Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club notched up another week as the Most-Sold: Fiction number one.

Lightning Books editor-at-large Scott Pack is retiring from full-time publishing after signing his final book, Sour Grapes, by Dan Rhodes.

Orion's Seven Dials will publish The Hairy Bikers' Everyday Winners in October. 

Monique Roffey’s next novel has been snapped up by Harvill Secker with the Vintage imprint also releasing her prize-winning The Mermaid of Black Conch in paperback and e-book next month.

Ebury Spotlight will publish Bring Me the Head of the Taskmaster in September, written by "Taskmaster" star Alex Horne. 

Sceptre has pre-empted the “deeply compelling and funny” debut novel by award-winning author Dur e Aziz Amna. 

Ellah Wakatama, literary critic and Canongate editor-at-large, is to deliver this year's Harriet Martineau Lecture, a commission that sees speakers respond to the life, work, legacy and impact of the 19th century writer.

I came into this business straight out of university having first worked in a bookshop, and following a week's work experience at Penguin Random House. I haven’t had a job outside of books since I was 20 but I'm not it seems what you'd call a ‘typical publishing person’. I'm Black and working class, I was raised by a…

Stephen Hawking’s office and archive, including a first draft of A Brief History of Time (Bantam) have been saved for the nation by Cambridge University Library and the Science Museum Group.