News

• 2021 Carmelite Picture Book Prize winner unveiled

  News - Children

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  Lorna Hill from Norwich University of the Arts takes Hachette Children’s Group prize for student illustrators
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• 2021 Information Book Award longlist revealed

  News - Prizes

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  School Library Association selects 28 children's titles across three categories for its IBA awards
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• Alice Oseman takes 2021 YA Book Prize

  News - Prizes

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  £2,000 prize goes to Oseman's Loveless, 'a coming-out story that follows a romance-obsessed teenager as she realises that she is aromantic and asexual'
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• Gaia relaunched at Octopus

  News - Publishing

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  Imprint’s ethos is to publish 'the world outside your window' and the list will 'explore and celebrate nature in all its forms'
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• Rosie Howie joins Edinburgh Napier as publisher in residence

  News - Publishing

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  Hodder Gibson publisher Howie graduated from the university's MSc in publishing in 2012
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• Granta makes changes in editorial and sales

  News - Publishing

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  Dan Bird moves to editorial as Phoebe Llanwarne joins in sales
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• Pan Macmillan strengthens fiction team

  News - Publishing

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  Vicki Mellor returns as Gillian Green joins the team permanently and Alex Saunders is promoted
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• The BookBrunch Report: Has the pandemic altered pathways into publishing?

  News - Publishing

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  Over recent years the book trade has come under increased scrutiny and pressure to be more accessible to publishing hopefuls. Now, and with Covid to contend with, what’s...
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• The Society of Authors dishes out £185,000 to struggling writers

  News - Publishing

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  Almost 80 authors receive grants to support them with their ongoing writing projects
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• New ranges of Numberblocks and Alphablocks books add up for Sweet Cherry

  News - Children

  Friday, 7th May 2021

  Lift-the-flap and wipe-clean formats coming this autumn: 25 million minutes of Numberblocks are now watched daily on YouTube
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