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Literary agent Catherine Cho and poets Romalyn Ante and Rachel Long are on the shortlist for the 2021 Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, with Patrice Lawrence and debut author Danielle Jawando appearing on the shortlist for the inaugural Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize.

Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) has now sold 500,000 copies in all formats globally, Pan Macmillan has said.

Fourth Estate and William Collins have introduced a modern classics list featuring titles from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Naomi Klein, Joan Didion and more.

The National Literacy Trust and Penguin Random House UK have launched a review into national primary school library provision.  

Alex Wheatle answers our questions about his novel Cane Warriors (Andersen Press), which follows the true story of Tacky’s War in Jamaica and has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2021. 1. Can you sum up your book in one sentence? An untold heroic tale that the world needs to know.  2. What inspired the book?

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Faber has unveiled two cover designs for Sally Rooney's forthcoming novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, especially for indie bookshops, Waterstones and Easons.

J K Rowling has written a "sparkling" new book for children, The Christmas Pig, to be released by Hachette Children's Group imprint Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Lee and Andrew Child's The Sentinel (Corgi) has boomeranged back into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, displacing Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder).

The Singapore Book Council hosts a new biennial round of the Malay literature awards, yielding six honors, one of them posthumous. The post Singapore’s Anugerah Persuratan Announces Malay Literature Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.