.Audible UK 🎧 and Pottermore Publishing – the audio and e-book publisher of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series – have announced plans for a new co-production of the original Harry Potter stories, scheduled for 2025 👇 thebookseller.com/news/audible-a…

'Bristol Old Vic's musical take on Starter for Ten sounds like theatre gold' 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/thank-…

Taylor Edmonds, Dylan Huw and Katie Munnik are among 10 writers chosen for this year’s Writers at Work creative development programme for emerging Welsh talent at Hay Festival 👇 thebookseller.com/news/hay-festi…

'As an introverted author, I hate public speaking. Here's how I cope.' 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/perfor…

'I know there are a bunch more magical fantasy bricks coming my way in the next few months and I do not want to sell them to children because I know they’re going to be really offputting' 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/size-m…

“The great thing about love, or at least the complex, difficult, beautiful thing about love, is that it is very hard to define. I think people are always pursuing this idea of love being a perfect golden concept that happens and continues for evermore” 👇 thebookseller.com/author-intervi…

Thriller writer A A Dhand has moved from Transworld to HQ Stories as part of a two-book deal about a pharmacist involved in a turf war, inspired by his own experience 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/a-a-dha…

.HQ Stories has snapped up an 'enthralling' Jane Austen-inspired mystery from Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar, entitled Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/hq-wins…

.Bloomsbury Books UK has acquired actor Sue Cleaver’s first book, A Work in Progress. It is described as ’a highly personal and engaging book that will resonate with every middle-aged woman who feels newly invisible, silenced, underestimated or diminished’ 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/bloomsb…

'The publishing industry needs to campaign for AI regulation while simultaneously harnessing its possibilities.' 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/we-mus…

'As an introverted author, I hate public speaking. Here's how I cope.' 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/perfor…

.Wildfire Books has bagged Sour Cherry, a 'stirring' reimagining of the French folktale of 'Bluebeard', from debut novelist Natalia Theodoridou 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/wildfir…

Cambridge University Press (Cambridge University Press) has signed Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change from psychiatrist Dr Linda Gask 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/cambrid…

.Scholastic UK has partnered with the Royal British Legion to publish Alive with Poppies, an accessible picture book with the aim of communicating the importance of remembrance to children 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/scholas…

Bookshop Limited – an umbrella organisation that owns The Gilded Acorn bookshop in central London – has completed a merger acquisition of the online feminist book community Aphra, formerly known as Books That Matter 👇 thebookseller.com/news/feminist-…

Around 150 people gathered at the annual HarperCollinsUK Big Book Event on Thursday evening (25th April) at the Ham Yard Hotel in central London 👇 thebookseller.com/news/150-gathe…

.Titan Books has signed the final 'lost' novel from the late George A Romero, director of 'Night of the Living Dead', completed by author Daniel Kraus 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/george-…

Eye Books has scooped Ghost Tide, the debut children's novel from former Sky Sports reporter Jim Cockin 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/eye-boo…

.prototype scoops 'refreshing' memoir from translator Jen Calleja 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/prototy…

.Scholastic UK has signed Fox Goes North, a 'charming, emotionally touching children's fable' from Jeremy Strong and illustrator by Heegyum Kim 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/scholas…