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Welbeck Publishing Group has acquired Ruby Wax's A Mindfulness Guide for Survival, to be published on 5th August 2021. 

Springer Nature staff will work a minimum of two days a week from home, with the option to increase that to three or four days, when the company returns to the office later this year.

Jacqueline Wilson has reimagined E Nesbit's classic The Railway Children as a “thrilling modern adventure", to be published by Puffin.

A prize for fantasy and science fiction writers of colour founded by Rivers of London author Ben Aaronovitch has been rebranded for its second year and will now work with publishers across the industry.

Pavilion has snapped up The Positively Awesome Journal, the second title from illustrator, author and self-care influencer Stacie Swift.

In November this year, an army of policymakers, scientists, lobbyists, civil society and activist groups will descend on Glasgow for the 26th annual UN Climate Change Conference, known around the world as ‘COP26’. The conference was originally scheduled to take place in 2020, designated by the UK Government as their ‘Year of Climate Action’, but…

Brit Bennett, Susanna Clarke and Yaa Gyasi are among those shortlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, with Patricia Lockwood, Claire Fuller and Cherie Jones completing the list.

​Seven debut children’s authors are on the shortlist for this year’s Branford Boase Award, including Kereen Getten, Elle McNicoll, Jenny Pearson and Manjeet Mann.

Hachette UK has been selected as one of the Times Top 50 Employers for Women for the second year running.

Two titles on this year's Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist are debuts. The winner of the 2021 edition is expected to be announced on May 7. The post In London, the Women’s Prize for Fiction Names Its Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.