The news that BBC’s head of books, Di Speirs, was due to leave the corporation after 34 years, was greeted as the end of an ...

Boldwood has signed five more authors and hired Emma Beswetherick as editorial director as it ends its fifth year. This ...

Irish author Roddy Doyle has become the first Booker Prize winner to chair the judging panel for the prize. The judging panel ...

Six Ingredient Slow Cooker (Ebury Press) has gone straight to the top of Official UK Top 50 with 52,070 copies flying through ...

Swift Press, an independent publishing company, has scored a “superb” new historical crime series by journalist and author ...

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Little Island has signed the English-language debut novel by Irish-language author Máire Zepf entitled The Cloud Kingdom.

Jonathan Cape has pre-empted Brodie Crellin’s debut novel, A Sense of Occasion. Publishing director Hannah Westland acquired ...

Bloomsbury Sport has scored the first Gary Lineker biography in 30 years, from sports journalist Chris Evans. Matthew Lowing, ...

Brazen, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, has acquired Hunger, a "Korean cult classic phenomenon" from Choi Jin-young.

Pan Macmillan has bought a “superb feat of non-fiction writing”, Freedom: A Global History of Decolonisation by Dr Elisabeth ...

Vivendi chief Yannick Bolloré today denied any ideological interference in Hachette Livre’s choices of books for publication, ...