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The daughter of a Welsh mother and Jamaican father, Hazel Carby wins the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for her treatment of her family's story. The post The UK’s £25,000 Al-Rodhan Prize Goes to Hazel Carby for ‘Imperial Intimacies’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The daughter of a Welsh mother and Jamaican father, Hazel Carby wins the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for her treatment of her family's story. The post The UK’s £25,000 Al-Rodhan Prize Goes to Hazel Carby for ‘Imperial Intimacies’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The award for 'Black-led presses and other presses that champion the work of BIPOC authors' names its first winners in the spring. The post PRH Sponsors CLMP’s New Black Literary Publishing Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

The award for 'Black-led presses and other presses that champion the work of BIPOC authors' names its first winners in the spring. The post PRH Sponsors CLMP’s New Black Literary Publishing Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

After shaky start in lockdown, Bloomsbury sales soar as people pick books over box setsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Harry Potter publisher, Bloomsbury, has reported its most profitable first half in more than a decade, after a nation tiring of box sets fuelled a lockdown boom in book sales.The company furloughed staff…

A Norwich indie has opened up a completely virtual version of its bookshop, in what its owners are calling a world first.

Hodder & Stoughton is to publish "Who Dares Wins" host Mark "Billy" Billingham’s debut novel, after triumphing in a multi-publisher auction. 

Since lockdown ended and bookshops reopened across the country in June and July, Adult Fiction—which had dropped 5.4% in volume and 1% in value in 2019, against an Eleanor Oliphant-ine 2018—has shown a significant rise.

Faber is to publish Claire Keegan's latest short novel, Small Things Like These, next autumn. 

More than 200 children's authors and illustrators, including Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman and Cressida Cowell, have signed a letter condemning the government’s vote rejecting the extension of its free school meal scheme over the holidays.