Peggy Seeger is a musician and writer. Her memoir First Time Ever was published by Faber & Faber in 2017. Seeger is also a Patron of Borderline Books, run by ... Read more
Oxford’s annual report highlights a good year for academic Oxford University Press has released its annual report for the financial year 2017-18. Though overall press turnover is down 0.9% on ... Read more
Some interesting comments from Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle on wanting to grown both its physical and digital businesses. He noted: “Today we are selling our books through 120,000 ... Read more
Dr. Caroline Mitchell is Chair of The Kittiwake Trust, LBF’s 2018 Charity of the Year. The Trust oversees two projects: Borderline Books in Gateshead and The Multilingual Library in Newcastle. ... Read more
Michael Rosen is one of Britain’s best loved writers and performance poets for children and adults. He is currently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-devised ... Read more
It has been a good month for independent presses. Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, published by Dublin’s Tramp Press, won the €100,000 Dublin International Literary Award; Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole, ... Read more
New BISG project aims to improve tracking for OA books The Book Industry Strategy Group has announced a major new project to improve usage and engagement tracking for open access ... Read more
In marked contrast to comments made by the then Hachette UK CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson at Futurebook at the end of 2016, his fellow chief execs at this year’s BookExpo ... Read more
Kim Wilkins was born in London but grew up in the sunniest part of Australia. She published her first novel in 1997 and has published a further 29 since then, ... Read more
Samantha Rayner is a Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, the Deputy Editor for the Journal of the International Arthurian Society, and the General Editor for a new ... Read more
