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The Primadonna Festival will go ahead as a physical event this summer returning to Suffolk in a new venue with guests including Naoise Dolan, Adele Parks and Michèle Roberts. 

Maccabees guitarist Felix White’s debut, which "weaves together mortality, music and cricket", has gone to Cassell.   

Ruth Gilligan, Nina Mingya Powles, Adam Mars-Jones, James Rebanks, Francesca Wade and Louise Hare are the six writers shortlisted for this year's £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

The NSPCC has partnered with Ladybird to publish the charity’s first children’s book.

Literature Wales has launched a new professional development programme for writers of colour as part of a drive to address the “historic lack of representation” in Welsh books.

Robert Harris thriller The Fear Index (Hutchinson) is set be a four-part Sky Original limited series starring "Penny Dreadful" actor Josh Hartnett, with production already underway. 

Hachette UK revenue rose by almost a fifth (19.8%) in the first quarter of 2021, led by the Bridgerton backlist following its successful Netflix adaptation. 

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Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder) has maintained the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a third week in total, selling 16,482 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market.

Selections for the African chapter of the Sustainable Development Goals Book Club include two titles in Indigenous African languages. The post The New SDG Book Club African Chapter Releases Its First Reading List appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.