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2024 July


Bradford Lit Fest founder Syima Aslam reflects on 10 years of the festival—and what’s next

Bradford Lit Fest founder Syima Aslam reflects on 10 years of the festival—and what’s next

Bradford Literature Festival’s 10th anniversary (28th June to 7th July 2024) was a "tremendous" success despite access to fewer venues, founder Syima Aslam has told The Bookseller.


Pottermore Publishing to release selection of articles and anecdotes by J K Rowling

Pottermore Publishing to release selection of articles and anecdotes by J K Rowling

Framed by Pottermore Publishing-authored editorial, the articles will be accompanied by an exclusive foreword written and narrated by Harry Potter film actor Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood.


Chief information officer Mike Ballanco retires as Hachette Book Group moves to new IT structure

Chief information officer Mike Ballanco retires as Hachette Book Group moves to new IT structure

"I am pleased to welcome Brendan into this new combined role, giving both the UK and the US the opportunity to benefit from his wide-ranging experience, his expertise in communicating complex IT issues, and determination to deliver outstanding and cost-effective IT support and systems”, Kitson added.


Max Porter to judge International Booker Prize

Max Porter to judge International Booker Prize

Porter said: “For the past 20 years, the International Booker has been the prize I’ve been most alert to, grateful for and interested in as a bookseller, editor, author and reader, so I’m thrilled to chair the panel of judges for 2025.


Hodder Education to operate under new name Hachette Learning

Hodder Education to operate under new name Hachette Learning

"We remain the home of Hodder Education, but with offices spanning the globe and a network of international partners, Hachette Learning will offer unparalleled global reach.


Books sales rise in Germany, but trade frets over declining readers

Books sales rise in Germany, but trade frets over declining readers

But despite the positive overall result, the industry has good reason to remain wary in the face of persistently high costs and sluggish consumer spending, says managing director Peter Kraus vom Cleff.


Wins for Tom Bullough and Mari George at Wales Book of the Year 2024

Wins for Tom Bullough and Mari George at Wales Book of the Year 2024

Sarn Helen, a non-fiction account of the author’s walk along the old Roman road that runs from Neath in the south to Caerhun on the north coast of Wales, and which also won the Waterstones Welsh Book of the Year in 2023, is illustrated by Jackie Morris.


Publisher bodies call on new Labour government to ‘turn the page’ after 14 years of ‘chaos’

Publisher bodies call on new Labour government to ‘turn the page’ after 14 years of ‘chaos’

of HarperCollins, and other leading figures in the industry, have taken the opportunity of the general election result to reiterate some of the key issues facing book publishing, in the hope that the new Labour government would provide greater support.


Political book sales remain flat despite general election

Political book sales remain flat despite general election

Though that left-leaning tilt at the tills did not reflect what happened in the voting booths, as the Tories secured a second premiership for David Cameron in 2015.


Una Mannion, Jordan Harper and Anthony Horowitz win the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards

Una Mannion, Jordan Harper and Anthony Horowitz win the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards

The ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for debut novels went to Callaghan with her BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick, In the Blink of an Eye (Simon & Schuster UK), praised for being "fresh, original and gripping".


Two titles from Storm Publishing shortlisted for the RNA Joan Hessayon Award

Two titles from Storm Publishing shortlisted for the RNA Joan Hessayon Award

This year’s winner will be announced at the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s annual conference Gala Dinner at Royal Holloway, University of London on 10th August 2024.


Suzanne Dean redesigns Vintage Classics’ ‘red spines’ series 17 years on

Suzanne Dean redesigns Vintage Classics’ ‘red spines’ series 17 years on

Other new titles include Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives (pictured), Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Christy Brown’s My Left Foot.