Wakefield Council has backed plans to expand the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, the world’s biggest book-gifting programme, to eight more areas in the city.

Black Crow Books has swooped for Gretchen McNeil’s adult debut, They Fear Not Men in the Woods, a "hugely addictive page-turner with the propulsion of a slick murder mystery".

Phoebe Morgan has been appointed to the new role of executive publisher for commercial fiction at Simon & Schuster UK.

Piatkus Fiction has pre-empted an 'utterly addictive' romantasy trilogy from self-published author Madeline Taylor.

Dame Stella Rimington, the first female director general of MI5 and a spy-novel author, has died aged 90.

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is switching from a weekly to an expanded fortnightly format with a new design.

John Murray Press, a division of Hachette UK, is set to launch its first classics list this month, including titles by David Attenborough, Jane Austen and Margaret MacMillan.

Pearson has reported a stable financial performance for the first half of 2025, with sales up 2% to £1.7bn and adjusted operating profit also up 2%, to £242m, but reports it expects “stronger ...

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Commentators have given a mostly positive verdict on the 'juicy, serious' 2025 Booker longlist, which some argued puts paid to the 'rumours of the death of the male novelist'.

Marissa Constantinou will join Northbank Talent Management on next month as an agent following stints at Unbound and Picador.

Amit Majmudar’s The Abundance (Oneworld), first published in 2013, has ascended to the top of the Indie Bookshop Top 20 – appearing 99 places higher than it does in the Total Consumer Market ...