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Bluebird has won a 14-way auction for actor David Harewood's “landmark” memoir on how racism impacts mental health.

The T S Eliot Prize-winning poet Roger Robinson, Irish writer and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson and novelist and short story writer Jon McGregor have been announced as judges for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize.  

Children's books have seen a boom during coronavirus-hit 2020 with non-fiction heading for a record year, according to Nielsen.

Doubleday will publish Joseph Knox's True Crime Story, which the author calls his "most ambitious work", in summer 2021. 

Orion Fiction has acquired two books by journalist Amy Lavelle including her debut, Definitely Fine. 

Puffin has netted The Dream Team, a football-themed middle-grade series from Priscilla Mante, in a two-book deal.

Faber is to publish musician and composer Warren Ellis' debut title, Nina Simone's Gum, featuring an introduction by Nick Cave. 

A growing number of publishers and prominent authors have added their voices of support for Booker Prize-shortlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga, who was arrested in Harare in July. 

Back in March, I was watching Twitter like it was a countdown, waiting like so many others for the inevitable to happen and for the London Book Fair to be cancelled.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak's new Job Support Scheme has been broadly welcomed by the Publishers Association and Creative Industries Federation.