Submissions are now open for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2024

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Robert Robert Peston and Kate Mosse are among authors on the line-up at this year's Chalke History Festival

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.Hay Festival has revealed its 2024 Writers at Work

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.Quercus Books has signed a new Mrs Parrish novel by co-writing duo and sisters Liv Constantine

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.HarperCollins Children's Books has signed more titles by David David Baddiel, including a new middle grade adventure and a graphic novel

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.Sayeeda Warsi is taking on Islamophobia at the Bridge Street Press at Little, Brown UK - the imprint won a four-way auction for Muslims Don't Matter

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Joanna Lee is joining ScribnerUK from Atlantic Books as senior commissioning editor, taking up the role at the end of July

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.Publishers' Licensing Services distributed a record £43.8m to publishers in 2023-2024

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Publishers and booksellers, including Hachette UK, Penguin Books UK and WHSmith, have signed the Vision for Literacy Business Pledge 2024

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.Appledore Book Festival has announced the dates for its September festival

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The Image of You by Adele Parks has been adapted for screen - and Headline Books has announced a film tie-in edition

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.Hay Festival is launching The Big Sporting Read, a new national celebration of reading that links sporting excellence and reading

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.Headline Books has signed Yardsticks For Failure, the first book by 'apologetically posh' comedian Ivo Graham

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.HQ Stories has signed Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective, an 'enthralling' Jane Austen-inspired mystery by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmina Kumar

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The Quality of Love: Two Sisters at the Heart of the Century by @ArianeBankes is out from Duckworth Books on 2 May

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.Simon & Schuster UK has signed Holmes and Moriarty by Gareth Rubin, the first authorized Sherlock Holmes novel since Anthony Horowitz's The House of Silk

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The longlists have been announced for The Crime Writers’ Association Daggers, with prominent names including Vaseem Khan, Kate Mosse and Karin Slaughter

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Deputy md Faye Brewster is stepping down at Vintage Books as Edward Grande is promoted to the new role of finance & commercial director

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