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World Poetry Day: social media drives 16% sales increase Poetry sales have continued to grow in 2017 ahead of World Poetry Day today (21st March), with writers driving interest on social media one possible reason for the genre's current boom.

Jamie Oliver 'can't wait' to publish 5-ingredient book in autumn Michael Joseph is publishing a new cookbook from Jamie Oliver, Jamie’s Quick & Easy 5-Ingredient Food, this autumn to tie in with an eight-part primetime TV series on Channel 4 of the same name.

Publisher to host EU celebration night on day of Article 50 trigger Canbury Press is to host a gala evening to "celebrate the contribution of Europeans to the UK" as prime minister Theresa May prepares to trigger Article 50.

Martin Redfern turns literary agent Former HarperCollins editorial director Martin Redfern is set to turn his hand to agenting, joining Diane Banks Associates as a non-fiction agent next month.

Lords call for digital literacy to be 'fourth pillar' of education A group of Lords has called on the government to make digital literacy sit alongside reading, writing and mathematics as a “fourth pillar” of education.

Sayeeda Warsi's Muslim Britain to be 'serialised' on Twitter Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is publishing a book with Allen Lane, The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain, which she will be promoting through a Twitter serialisation to engage more diverse audiences.

New Richard Flanagan novel coming this autumn Penguin Random House is publishing a new novel by Richard Flanagan, his first since winning the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Translated Spanish cookbook from 1745 wins Jane Grigson Award An “unusual” influential recipe book originally published in 1745 by a Spanish Franciscan friar and translated into English has won the 2017 Jane Grigson Trust Award.

Seventh Emily Windsnap book coming next year Liz Kessler is set to release the seventh instalment of her middle grade series Emily Windsnap next year.

Hodder appoints former bookseller Sam Bradbury as SFF editor Hodder and Stoughton has appointed Sam Bradbury, currently with Jo Fletcher Books, as editor with commissioning responsibilities in the area of science fiction, fantasy and horror, reporting to publisher Oliver Johnson.

Wenham and Stevens join Bristol University Press Bristol University Press, the new university press encompassing the Policy Press imprint, has appointed Palgrave Macmillan's Stephen Wenham and Paul Stevens to "drive the publisher’s expansion into new and emerging subject areas".