Speakers from the BBC, Beano Brain and the National Year of Reading campaign are joining Waterstones Children’s Laureate ...

Publishers are “increasingly keen to work with Substack writers”, The Bookseller has heard, with the platform actively working to strengthen its connections within the book trade by, for example, ...

Daughters of the Storm is Hobbs’ first fiction book under her own name. The series is described as a “sweeping new family saga of love, loss, secrets and extraordinary powers, spanning three centuries ...

With a stonking 227,169 copies sold in its first three days on sale, Julia Donaldson’s most recent collaboration with Axel ...

Barnes & Noble, the sister company of Waterstones, has bought two bookstores in the US owned by the independent Joseph-Beth ...

Hauser & Wirth Publishers is to open a pop-up bookshop in Mayfair next month as part of the Mount Street Neighbourhood Arts ...

Bitter Lemon Press has launched Labyrinth Press, a new imprint dedicated to international literary fiction, largely, but not ...

Sphere has acquired The Filth, the first autobiography by Dani Filth, founding member and frontman of the extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.

Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired Family Is a Feeling, the debut picture book from Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams, illustrated by Dapo Adeola.

Scholastic has signed Lauren Titmuss’ “twisty, pacy” thriller debut in a two-book deal. Lauren Fortune, fiction publisher, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in a pre-empt from Alice Sutherland Hawes ...

Magic Cat will publish an illustrated middle-grade book first written and published 40 years ago by two-time Booker Prize-winner Margaret Atwood.

Firefinch has acquired five novels in Tim Ayliffe’s John Bailey thriller series. Managing director Kate Parkin acquired world rights, excluding Australia and New Zealand, from Dan Pilkington at The ...