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2025


Creators’ Rights Alliance says of government’s AI plan: ‘Advancements should not ignore the rights of creators’

Creators’ Rights Alliance says of government’s AI plan: ‘Advancements should not ignore the rights of creators’

She added: “We urge the Government not to risk the livelihoods of our world-leading creative industries, but to find ways of harnessing the power of AI with the rights of creators, safety and sustainability firmly in mind.


Springer Nature reveals AI-driven tool to ‘automate some editorial quality checks’

Springer Nature reveals AI-driven tool to ‘automate some editorial quality checks’

A new AI-driven tool to "automate a number of editorial quality checks" has been developed by Springer Nature to alert editors to "potentially unsuitable manuscripts" so that they can be held back from peer review.


From tuxedos to tattoos, Eleanor Medhurst’s Unsuitable traces a hidden history of lesbian fashion

From tuxedos to tattoos, Eleanor Medhurst’s Unsuitable traces a hidden history of lesbian fashion

At the same time as Gladys Bentley was enthralling New York City in her tuxedo, paired with the essential accoutrements of top hat, cane and stiff shirt collar, lesbians in interwar Paris were exploring other “masculine” looks.


Formara joins print and paper advocacy group Two Sides

Formara joins print and paper advocacy group Two Sides

By joining Two Sides, Formara has access to a library of co-brandable communications tools, consumer research, industry-leading information, sustainability advice and events.


Asako Yuzuki’s Butter tops the chart in the last week of the year

Asako Yuzuki’s Butter tops the chart in the last week of the year

In a sign of things to come in January, Pinch of Nom: All in One by Kay and Kate Allinson (Bluebird) and Bored of Lunch Six Ingredients Slow Cooker by Nathan Anthony (Ebury Press) are both starting to rise up the NFHB chart while Tim Spector’s Food for Life Cookbook (Jonathan Cape) both return to the top 20.


Novelist and academic David Lodge dies at 89

Novelist and academic David Lodge dies at 89

His criticism, plays, biographies, memoirs and television scripts stand alongside celebrated novels like The British Museum is Falling Down, the Booker-shortlisted Small World and Nice Work, Therapy, Deaf Sentence and A Man of Parts, and show the range of a writer who was fascinated by everything the written word could achieve.”


Kazuo Ishiguro, Jacqueline Wilson and Alan Hollinghurst recognised in King Charles New Year’s Honours list

Kazuo Ishiguro, Jacqueline Wilson and Alan Hollinghurst recognised in King Charles New Year’s Honours list

And it makes me even more determined to keep telling stories that draw attention to the persecution and oppression endured by queer people in the past and contrast this with how much better things are in the present, in order to celebrate the progress we’ve made as a society.


Shop the 14 winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2024: Top books

Shop the 14 winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2024: Top books

“Romance queen Emily Henry takes home her fourth consecutive GCA with ‘Funny Story,’ an instructive modern parable about a heartbroken librarian who attempts an extremely tricky maneuver: hooking up with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancĂ©e’s ex.