Production company Fane has announced it has sold more than 72,000 tickets, 54% of those including a book, for the online events season it launched in September.
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Sceptre has won a four-way auction to publish Huma Qureshi’s prize-winning debut short story collection, Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love, next November.
Miranda Jewess, senior commissioning editor at Serpent's Tail imprint Viper, has acquired The Last Thing He Told Me by US author Laura Dave after a four-way auction.
BBC One has commissioned a four-part adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s Costa Award-winning Life After Life from House Productions.
Lauren Child is bringing back Clarice Bean in a “spectacularly cinematic Christmas classic” for HarperCollins Children's Books.
David Constantine is to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, for his "humane" work spanning 11 collections.
Poetry London has appointed André Naffis-Sahely as its new poetry editor.
The outgoing president of the International Publishers Association talks about the completely unexpected second half of his term. The post IPA’s Hugo Setzer on His Term as President: ‘So Many Different Viewpoints’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The Jagriti Publishing House and its bookstore are Razia Rahman Joly's memorial to her slain husband, publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan. The post AAP’s 2020 Freedom to Publish Award: Bangladesh’s Jagriti Publishing House appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The Jagriti Publishing House and its bookstore are Razia Rahman Joly's memorial to her slain husband, publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan. The post AAP’s 2020 Freedom to Publish Award: Bangladesh’s Jagriti Publishing House appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.