Award-winning indie Mostly Books has bought The Borzoi Bookshop in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.
Amazon Charts: Reverend Richard Coles’ The Madness of Grief hits the top
Reverend Richard Coles' The Madness of Grief (W&N) has debuted atop the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction charts, earning the "unputdownable" tag.
Little, Brown to publish biography of Swedish DJ Avicii
Little, Brown has acquired the biography of the late Swedish DJ Avicii written by journalist Måns Mosesson.
Macmillan Children’s launches non-fiction imprint with former DK trio
Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group has launched a new imprint led by three former DK employees, focusing on gift non-fiction titles that make topics, including medicine and archaeology, accessible for children.
Southbank Centre launches New Poets Collective
The Southbank Centre is running an annual New Poets Collective scheme, helping a group of 15 poets hone their skills and expand their knowledge.
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 7, 2021
Today's Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday's most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant for $2.99 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for $4.99 Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark for $2.99 Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg for $2.99 The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley for $2.99 How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman for $2.99 The Fact of a Body by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich for $2.99 The Banks by Roxane Gay for $1.99 The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole for $2.99 Night of...
An open letter to Kwasi Kwarteng
Dear Secretary of State, Congratulations on the new(ish) job. What a mouthful – Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – and what a wide and important brief. I have been enjoying your media slots which must be really tricky given the number of competing and sometimes conflicting messages coming from elsewhere in Government or from the Opposition. I don’t envy you but at least this job is about trying to build a future for the UK rather than handling flak from Brexit negotiations.
Hamnet reigns atop the chart
Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder Press) has topped the UK Official Top 50 chart through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market, shifting 22,912 copies in its first week on sale.
Holgate and Collins to judge the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize
Andrew Holgate, literary editor of the Sunday Times, will chair the Baillie Gifford Prize judging panel for the 2021 awards.
BolognaBookPlus to hold Covid-19 conference with IPA
BolognaBookPlus, the annual fair's new general publishing strand, has announced a one-day conference on Covid-19's impact in partnership with the International Publishers Association.
