Hay Festival international director Cristina Fuentes La Roche has been awarded a Medal of Culture in Arequipa, Peru, to celebrate the festival's 10 years in the country.

Yellow Kite has acquired Generation Zombie: Why Devices Are Harming Our Children and What We Can Do About It by psychologist and psychotherapist Dr Charlotte Armitage. Editorial director Nicky Ross ...

Louisa Harland, best known for her TV and theatre work in "Derry Girls", will narrate the audiobook edition of Roisin O’Donnell’s debut novel Nesting. The book is set for publication across audio, ...

Bloomsbury has acquired Lyndsay Roberts Rayne’s "moving wordless story" about a First World War messenger dog. Sally Beets, senior commissioning editor for children’s non-fiction, acquired world ...

Atlantic Books has pre-empted an "extraordinary and comprehensive" Swedish book on black holes. Group non-fiction publisher Ed Faulkner pre-empted world English rights in Jonas Enander’s Facing the ...

The Freelancer of the Year award will make its début at FutureBook 2024. Thirty nine projects and individuals have been ...

The owner of same, Mike Shatzkin, so much more than a consultant known on both sides of the Atlantic, had succumbed to a rare ...

Nussaibah Younis' bold and hilarious debut novel Fundamentally follows academic Nadia’s attempts to set up a programme to ...

Lucy Steeds' debut novel The Artist is a tense psychodrama of female subversion and liberation exploring the legacy of war.

In Kate Kemp's debut novel, The Grapevine, 12-year-old Tammy is gloomy about the school holidays—until a gruesome discovery ...

Technology pioneers will always want to crash our party and though some will bring with them a change of beat or a new dance, ...

World of Books c.e.o. Dan Mucha on the quest for a complete selection, a ‘warmer’ relationship with publishers and expansion.