The National Centre for Writing (NCW) has revealed a new cohort of nine emerging literary translators for its mentoring ...

Sandycove, an imprint of Penguin, has acquired Jennifer Bray’s debut novel in a three-way auction. Patricia Deevy, deputy ...

Harvill Secker has won a nine-way auction to a new memoir by teacher and mountaineer Cédric Sapin-Defour. Senior editor Ellie ...

Penguin Life has acquired an expert-led guide to ending men’s violence against women by educator and campaigner Dr Jackson ...

Renegade –an imprint of Dialogue— has snapped up the debut novel by filmmaker Piotr Cieplak, describing it as an ...

We are heading into the peak sales season for Humour, Trivia and Puzzles – 62% of the Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market ...

The Rebecca Swift Foundation has received project grant funding from Arts Council England to develop its UK-wide Women Poets’ ...

The Wingate Prize and the Jewish Literary Foundation have announced they will be working in partnership this year.

Sarah Hodgson, publishing director of Atlantic Books’ Corvus imprint, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in two new ...

Vintage Classics has signed Fearless and Free, the memoir from Josephine Baker in a new translation from Anam Zafar and ...

Viking has announced the launch of a five-book series entitled Penguin Weird Fiction.

Dame Maggie Smith, best known for her role as Professor McGonagall in the film adaptation of the Harry Potter books has died aged 89.