Six months after winning the Booker, Samantha Harvey has written a pamphlet edition of a short story for online journal Fictionable, about the potential for deathbed-based love and redemption. The ...

Children’s author and former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq visited the Blue Gate Fields Junior School in Tower Hamlets on 25th June to mark the launch of an expanded library. The library is part of ...

Bonnier’s adult-fiction imprint Zaffre has acquired three new titles by Jo Spain in a six-figure deal. World English-language rights in the titles were acquired by Zaffre publisher Ben Willis from ...

Salt has signed a crypto novel by Tibor Fischer, set in Dubai. Chris Hamilton-Emery acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to My Bags Are Big direct from the author, in an exclusive deal concluded in ...

The former director of Berwick Literary Festival, Andrew Deuchar, has been arrested and charged "in connection with indecent online communications", Police Scotland has confirmed to The Bookseller.

The Bright Agency has appointed Paul Black as brand partnership director. In the newly created role, Black will represent both brands and artists across all sectors of the industry, with licensing ...

Cassell has acquired Being Carlos Alcaraz by Mark Hodgkinson. Garbiñe Muguruza, a former women’s singles world number one from Spain, has written the foreword. Trevor Davies acquired world English ...

Dialogue Books has acquired two new novels by South Korean author Bora Chung, author of Cursed Bunny, which was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and 2023 National Book Award, and ...

Pan Macmillan has been named "Best for Mothers" at the Working Families Best Practice Awards. The judges said that Pan Macmillan "felt like a dream company to work for", highlighting the company’s ...

Margaret McDonald, Craig Barr-Green and Francis Martin, Hiba Noor Khan, and Atinuke and Kingsley Nebechi have been announced ...

Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site ...

Eight members of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators British Isles regional team and steering committee ...