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Taylor and Francis has confirmed “around 200” staff took up a recent voluntary redundancy offer. 

Maggie Formella-Leigh has won the inaugural I am In Print Novel Award for Love is Not Enough. 

Benjamin Myers ’ Cuddy (Bloomsbury Circus), Anna Funder’s Wifedom (Viking) and Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You (4th Estate) are among the 12-strong longlist for the  £10,000 Gordon Burn Prize 2023-2024.

Farshore has retained its position as the UK’s number one publisher in the annuals category for another year.

A new report published by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) argues that “microclusters” of creative activity, where 50 or more creative businesses or organisations work in proximity in a street, neighbourhood or town, are fuelling growth in the larger creative clusters across the country. 

Bantam’s Frankie Gray has been appointed to the leading role at HarperFiction.

Leah Hazard has won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award for Womb (Virago).

Sales and earnings have declined at Wiley, with second quarter results reporting revenue of $493m (£392m), down 4% from $515m (£410m) and operating income of $46m (£37m), down 19% from $57m (£45m).

Oliver Basciano, Taj Ali and Katherine Dunn have been revealed as this year’s winners of the RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards.

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