Two more days to enter Lewes Football Club's third annual Rooker Prize, which we’re proudly sponsoring again!

The club, which is 100% fan-owned, created the prize to make novel writing more accessible and includes the chance to receive a feedback session with one of our experienced…

We are delighted to welcome our Hachette Book Group colleague Carrie J. Bloxson to our Changing the Story team. In this newly created role, Carrie will drive our #ChangingtheStory initiative across the UK and the US, to further strengthen our mission: bit.ly/3W1K97B.

Today's top story:

Bloomsbury Books UK is moving to Hachette UK distribution from MDL, saying it's 'best positioned to support the company's long-term strategic objectives and ambitions'

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.Hachette UK’s Muslim Employee Network hosted its fourth annual Iftar, the fast-breaking evening meal in Ramadan, marking the network’s first cross-industry iteration 👇 thebookseller.com/news/hachette-…

As the home to the most advanced warehousing technology in UK publishing and an industry-leader since 2020, today Hachette UK Distribution is pleased and proud to add Bloomsbury Books UK to our distribution family. We are the perfect partner to ensure their wealth of publishing…

ESEA Lit Fest is back and better than ever – and we’re so proud to be sponsoring it again this year!

The festival is organised by ESEA Publishing Network, which aims to amplify the voices of East and South East Asian writers and to promote ESEA talent working across the publishing industry 🙌

Eid Mubarak! We hope you all have a beautiful and blessed time celebrating 💛✨

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Eid Mubarak!🌙

It was so great to see Muslim Employee Network host their fourth annual Iftar this Ramadan, which this year was a cross-industry event, as part of their aim to build a welcoming environment for publishing professionals👇
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Today is for you 3DadsWalking. A special publication day for your book, full of hope and heart, friendship and life-changing stories. You're an inspiration and we're with you every step of the way. Hachette UK's Walk of Hope for PAPYRUS suicide prevention.

The stunning new hardback edition of Stephen King's first bestseller: Carrie is out today!

With a brand new introduction by Margaret Atwood and published in advance of the 50th anniversary next month.

Find out more and order your copy here: brnw.ch/21wIfn4

Did you know we partner with Northumbria Uni and New Writing North on an MA in Publishing?

Read all about this year's cohort's recent tour of our London office and their time at LBF, where they met some of our team who gave their insight into the industry 👇

.JKP Books has teamed up with Bloomsbury Books UK to make JKP books accessible to higher education institutions! The new digital library will support students' understanding of diverse identities with modules on gender, sexuality, neurodiversity, mental health and wellbeing👇

BRILLIANT to see that we’ve received 15 trade nominations in the #BritishBookAwards – which takes us up to 24 Nibbie nominations altogether. We’re so proud of our incredible colleagues, and we’re excited to see the winners in May! Read more below 🙌

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And that’s a wrap!

Now that London Book Fair is over for another year, we’re delighted that our books will be going to one of our key charity partners, TheBookTradeCharity 📚 #LBF24

📚✨ The UK’s publishing industry is truly world leading! Our research released today reveals it contributes £11bn to the economy & exports more books than any other country. With government support, it could add £5.6bn more by 2033.

Read full report: publishers.org.uk/publications/v…

Ramadan Mubarak 🌙

Our brilliant Muslim Employee Network, Muslim Employee Network, have put together some great resources to help support our Muslim colleagues this Ramadan- check them out!

“The publishing industry need to throw our gates wide open; we need a diverse workforce, because that is what will make companies ultimately successful.”

Lisa Waterman, our Group HR Director, on what we need to do to recruit the next generation of publishing candidates. #LBF24

Such an interesting talk at #LBF24 today - Nico, our Literary Art Director at Dialogue Publishing and Little, Brown UK, chatted through all things cover design and the weird and wonderful journey a book cover can take to come together 📚

Welcome to Arcadia ✨🐉🦄🔮🚀
We are relaunching our treasured SFF imprint, formerly known as Jo Fletcher Books, and we're SO excited to have you along for the ride. Home to the best science fiction, fantasy and horror books, we know you’ll find something to love on our list!