This week's issue is out now, featuring:
🗣️Author Profiles: Will Maclean & Amelia Tait
🌸Discover: April
🌞Spotlight: Summer Reads
✒️The British Book Awards: Book of the Year shortlists – in pictures
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Granta MD and publishing director Bella Lacey has acquired world English-language rights to Universal Tide: How Tides Drive Life and Shape the Cosmos, from Beaches to Black Holes by Stephen Battersby 👇 #BookSky
HarperCollins organised a champagne and lunch reception at Claridge’s for Lucy Foley’s upcoming Miss Marple novel, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel 👇 #BookSky
HarperCollins has acquired world all-language rights to Home Made, the debut cookbook from chef and restaurateur, Thom Bateman 👇 #BookSky
Book fairs are a time to come together, share stories and, occasionally, butt heads, says Philip Jones in this week's editor's letter 👇 #BookSky
Publisher Canelo has unveiled a new logo to mark the “next stage of the company’s development” following its acquisition by DK in late 2024 👇 #BookSky
Canongate has landed The Fox from Sunday Times bestselling author Annie Macmanus, popularly known as Annie Mac 👇 #BookSky
Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired the Dragon Rush series by Olivia Hayward, a debut sports fantasy trilogy that “brings together the full-throttle pace of Formula One with a fiery fantasy setting” 👇 #BookSky
Hodderscape has acquired an “astonishing” new science fiction duology from Becky Chambers, the bestselling author of the Wayfarers series 👇 #BookSky
Thames & Hudson has acquired a visual and lyrical portrait of Susie Cave that unites the creative talents of four icons – writer and musician Nick Cave, photographer Dominique Issermann, book designer Irma Boom and Susie Cave herself 👇
Your mind is a haunted house. It’s full of your memories. People are dead in there, and yet seem to have a lot more energy than when they were alive, says Will Maclean in our recent author interview 👇 #BookSky
The Orion Publishing Group has unveiled a new logo, designed by Nick Shah, creative director of Orion, with brand director Cait Davies 👇 #BookSky
Bantam, an imprint of Transworld, has signed three novels by international bestseller Helen Fields 👇 #BookSky
Audible is expanding its line-up of original audio productions with a suite of new deals announced ahead of the London Book Fair 👇 #BookSky
The British Book Awards (#Nibbies) 2026 Book of the Year shortlist have been revealed, including Freida McFadden, AF Steadman, Charlie Mackesy and Ruth Jones 👇 #BookSky
What worked in the book trade last year? And what didn't? 📚
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Moon + Bird, an imprint of Watkins Media, has signed the SCBWI's Melissa Johnston Miles’ new middle-grade novel Caught on Camera 👇 #BookSky
Choc Lit, an imprint of Joffe Books, has signed three contemporary small-town romances from author Jessica Gilmore 👇 #BookSky
Oneworld is set to publish GR Halliday’s Scottish Highlands crime series featuring DI Monica Kennedy, as filming begins on a new ITV adaptation 👇 #BookSky
There was an undertone of anxiety at this year’s event, writes Gayle Feldman on this year's American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute 2026 👇 #BookSky
Communications and marketing agency Collective Wisdom, launched in 2024 by Truda Spruyt, has appointed four new associates: Claire Maxwell, Jo Finn, Jen Richards and Maya Amin-Smith 👇 #BookSky
WH Smith PLC has reported a “solid” performance for the 26 weeks to 28th February 2026, with overall group revenue up 2% like-for-like compared to the same period a year prior 👇 #BookSky
Irish Children’s Laureate Patricia Forde has signed a four-book deal with Post Wave Children’s Books 👇 #BookSky
Hutchinson Heinemann has nabbed UK and Commonwealth rights at auction to Lily Scherlis’s People Skills: The Impossible Task of Personal Growth – and Why Change Is the Answer 👇 #BookSky
Amazon has withdrawn from the Paris Book Festival, due to be held from 17th to 19th April 👇 #BookSky
Janet Aspey has joined Fox & Ink Books in a newly created marketing role 👇 #BookSky
The Society of Authors is set to receive the advance and royalties upon publication of the new edition of Woman Alive by Susan Ertz, introduced by Graham Norton, from Manderley Press 👇 #BookSky
Headline Press has acquired Natural Intelligence: The Living Solutions to a World in Crisis by Chris Thorogood, associate professor of Biology at the University of Oxford and author of Pathless Forest 👇
James Roxburgh of Atlantic Books, has bought UK Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander to The Fields by Martin MacInnes 👇 #BookSky
Piatkus has acquired Aligned, a “pioneering” book on the science of posture and whole-body health by osteopath, Nadia Alibhai 👇 #BookSky
