No one could have known what we were heading into back in January. Yet the year that would have so much sadness in it began with sadness in the book ... Read more
Congratulations to Stuart Wilson from the Pan Mac art department for a memorable cover for the Booker-winning Shuggie Bain. Thanks to his treatment of the striking image by photographer Jez ... Read more
What a week. To paraphrase president-elect Joe Biden’s favourite poet, Seamus Heaney, it has been a week that opened two doors out of the darkness. First there is Biden’s victory ... Read more
There are more diversity initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic. At the same time as Penguin Random House UK announced its Lit in Colour programme to address the white ... Read more
A tough week for James Daunt, the west’s most important bricks and mortar bookseller. In the UK, Waterstones is having to cope with an ever-changing landscape of lockdowns, while in ... Read more
With the arrival – to the trade at least – of the US-owned Bookshop.org, this is potentially a momentous week for UK independent booksellers. The company’s USP is the help ... Read more
When this is all over – and don’t we all long for that day – a publishing PhD student will perhaps explore why there were so many long books published ... Read more
Bill Kennedy, founder of sales and marketing agency Avicenna Partnerships which represents western publishers in the Arab World, continues to raise funds to support those who work in Beirut’s book ... Read more
There is sadness and anger at the collapse of Norwich wholesaler Bertrams. The sadness is felt by those in the industry who remember the company’s heyday in the Eighties and ... Read more
It has been an extraordinary fortnight. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in America have spread around the world and have put diversity in the publishing industry at the forefront ... Read more
