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Kate Atkinson and Hanya Yanagihara are among the 20 longlisted
authors for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, announced today.
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A coalition of shareholders, representing 40,000 of
Pearson's voting shares across the UK and US, has called for Pearson
to urgently review its business strategy due to a
"crisis of confidence".
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Penguin Random House UK Audio is set to be a standalone
division to foster a "unified audio strategy" across the whole
company.
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Authors including Matt Haig, Dreda Say Mitchell, Holly Bourne
and Sathnam Sanghera are to headline the World Book Night flagship event in
London on Saturday 23rd April, which also marks Shakespeare’s birthday and
the 400th anniversary of his death.
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Iona Grey has been honoured with the Romantic Novelists’
Association’s "highest accolade", The Goldsboro Books Romantic
Novel of the Year, for her book Letters
to the Lost (Simon & Schuster).
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Syrian author Samar Yazbek has made the Orwell Prize longlist
for The Crossing,
which tells of the journalist’s attempts to get back into her country after
being exiled by president Bashar al-Assad.
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BBC 1's acclaimed adaptation of John le Carré’s The Night Manager has
sent Penguin's book sales soaring.
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J K Rowling is set to release four new pieces of writing
through her Pottermore website, telling the history of magic in North
America.
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Biteback is set to publish four new volumes of diaries from
Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former chief press secretary and director
of communications and strategy.
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Authors including Philip Pullman and Tom Holland, and
journalists from Buzzfeed, GQ and the Mirror
have joined Index on
Censorship magazine to condemn the seizure of Turkish
independent media group, Zaman, and its English-language newspaper Today's Zaman.
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Penguin Random House Children’s is publishing a picture book,
by Michelle Robinson and Nick East, in collaboration with the European
Space Agency and astronaut Tim Peake.
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Conran Octopus is publishing a new colouring book Vogue Goes Pop by award-winning
fashion writer Iain R. Webb.
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