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Penguin Random House outperformed within Bertelsmann in 2024, according to the German media group’s annual financial report. Sales rose €4.9bn…

A number of authors including Richard Osman, Val McDermid, Kate Mosse, Kazuo Ishiguro and Sarah Waters have signed an open…

WH Smith’s high street stores will be rebranded as TGJones after a £76m sale. All 480 WH Smith high street…

Mikey Please has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 for his funny and immersive picture…

CrimeFest has announced DG Coutinho as the recipient of its 2025 bursary for a crime-fiction writer of colour. The bursary…

Hera Books has stepped in to sponsor the Comedy Women in Print (CWIP) Prize following HarperFiction’s withdrawal.  The Canelo-owned, female-led…

Julia Donaldson, Cressida Cowell and Alexander Armstrong were all present at the National Literacy Trust’s annual gala dinner, in which…

The Booksellers Association (BA) has announced its ambassadors for Independent Bookshop Week 2025, Lorraine Kelly, Mike Gayle and LD Lapinski,…

Bloomsbury Publishing has reported a “robust” performance for the financial year ended 28th February 2025, with trading “ahead of consensus…

Debut author Harriet Baker has won the £10,000 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award for Rural…