Trade

Dom Phillips, an author who was killed while researching his book on the Amazon, is one of 10 recipients whose work has been awarded the $40,000 (£31,762) Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song gets a post-Booker bounce of over 1,500%, Guinness World Records 2024 nabs a third number one, while Murdle has another standout week

How to Save the Amazon: Ask the People Who Know will be completed by writers and environmentalists thanks to a grant from the Whiting foundationA book begun by Dom Phillips, a foreign correspondent and Guardian contributor who was killed in the Amazon in June last year while researching the project, will be published in April…

Renita D’Silva’s psychological thriller, The Neighbour, has won the Joffe Books Prize 2023.

There is a growing trend for in-house staff in the industry to go freelance, The Bookseller has heard, with a range of issues including burnout, poor treatment at work and a desire for greater autonomy cited as reasons for the change.   

Arabella Stein has been appointed trade strategy director for DK Children’s.   

Lemn Sissay and Nicola Solomon will join industry experts from Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Hodder in a three-day Author HQ programme at next year’s London Book Fair (LBF).

United Talent Agency (UTA) has declined to comment on the Sunday Times report that UTA sent a draft version of Omid Scobie’s Endgame to the Dutch publisher Xander Uitgevers. 

Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) has made an agreement with its US sister company, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, for MCB to sell in the UK all titles published by the US preschool imprint Priddy Books, including the non-fiction list Neon Squid. 

Independent book publisher Alberto Bisi brings his meticulous '21lettere' approach to the States, opening his new 26Letters. The post Opening in the States: Italy’s 21lettere Expands With 26letters appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.