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The Fraud. By Zadie Smith. Penguin Press; 464 pages; $29. Hamish Hamilton; £20 Zadie Smith, who has just written a historical novel, never planned to. She saw the genre as [...]

This feature reproduces fiction, non-fiction and children's titles planned for June, many of which have been moved back owing to Covid-19. Where this is the case, the new release dates [...]

FILE - Egypt's New Valley Governorate CAIRO -- 7 September 2020: The Central Upper Egypt region opened a book sales outlet affiliated to the General Authority for Culture Palaces, located [...]

Top sellers Tom Clancy with Peter Telep Against All Enemies Penguin, [pounds sterling]7.99, 2nd. 9780241957165 His second hanchised thriller. This introduces a major new character, former Navy SEAL and CIA [...]

Celebrity spread. Nothing to do with what Jordan puts on her toast, but everything to do with whether there are gift books for everyone. One of the criticisms I have [...]

Amid turmoil at the top at Quarto, two heads of its main imprints have been facing huge challenges of their own. Richard Green, group publisher, has had to oversee a [...]

May--with some real heavy-weights topping and tailing the month. The spacing isn't too bad for although Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs both appear in May, a couple of weeks divide [...]

Bonnier Books UK has published its inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan to boost representation across its workforce and its publishing lists, and discussion within the wider industry. Currently staff [...]

Top sellers LEGO City: Fire Team Adventure Ladybird. [pounds sterling]6.99, 5th, h/b, 9781409309321, 3+ LEGO powers on, with sales topping 17,000 copies in last week's Children's Top 500 alone. This [...]

Three presses committed to publishing diverse, under-represented voices will launch in the UK this year, with each looking to satisfy what they perceive to be an increased appetite from readers [...]

Booksellers are preparing for another blockbuster summer of sales, with a second successive year of 'event publishing' shoring up the industry in the sunny season, and one retailer declaring 'we [...]

Mahindra Rural Housing Finance (MRHFL), a subsidiary of Mahindra Financial Services, has planned to raise about Rs200 crore for expansion. The company is planning to increase book size three-fold to [...]

Oxford Book Store (OBS) is planning to spin off its tea retail concept, Cha Bar, into a standalone brand. The company had introduced the concept in Mumbai in 2010. OBS [...]

Barclays India is looking to retain retail loans maturing in 12- 18 months on its books as it is not getting the right price. The bank has decided to recover [...]

L&T Finance Holdings is planning to increase the book size of its housing finance subsidiary, Indo-Pacific Housing Finance, to Rs5,000 crore from Rs250 crore in the coming years. It had [...]

Snapdeal.com has stated that it was looking for the right model and would take a call soon on entering the books and music space. Snapdeal.com is a 'daily deals' e-commerce [...]

UBS AG of Switzerland is planning to augment its corporate loan book in India to increase its loan book to Rs3,000 crore by Sep 2011. The Swiss bank intends to [...]

Midvalley Entertainment, which is based in Chennai and is engaged in film production, distribution and exhibition in south India, plans to come out with an initial public offering (IPO) to [...]

Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) plans to triple its loan in the next three to four years. The company achieved a net profit of Rs11 crore in 2009-2010. The company [...]

The annual reports of companies are an important source of information on the areas of operation, financial numbers, industry performance and outlook, strategies adopted and future plans. The information includes [...]

An investigation into murder, an exploration of Welsh wildlife and a new 'gloriously nostalgic' trilogy are among the titles forthcoming from publishers in Wales; The Bookseller has compiled a selection [...]

Thriller writer David Baldacci is in sober mood after the events of 11th September David Baldacci is understandably subdued as he talks to The Bookseller about his forthcoming thriller Last [...]

Digital-only publisher Bahati Books will release an anthology showcasing the 'best in contemporary African writing' to mark Black History Month at the end of the month. Throughout October the press [...]

Live literature producer and independent publisher Penned in the Margins is publishing the latest titles from Luke Kennard and Melissa Lee-Houghton, which its director Tom Chivers believes is a 'bit [...]

Andersen Press is marking its 40th birthday by launching a picture book prize for debut illustrators. The 5,000 [pounds sterling] Klaus Flugge Prize will be an annual award for picture [...]

Quick Reads has announced its six titles for 2016: an abridged version of Malala Yousafzai's I Am Malala (written with Christina Lamb); a collection of short stories, The Anniversary: Ten [...]

Publishers are hoping that narrative non-fiction books about plants and gardens will break into the mainstream market this autumn. In October, Profile Books is releasing Richard Mabey's The Cabaret of [...]

Tony Brook and Patricia Finegan founded Spin in 1992 as a design studio working across physical and digital. Spin's projects encompass typography, identities, art direction and moving images, among other [...]

This autumn will see Transworld imprint Doubleday publish the first short-story collections of four high-profile authors. August sees the publication of John Boyne's Beneath the Earth (14.99 £) and Adam [...]

Darf Publishers, which focuses on Arabic fiction in translation, is looking to make an impact on the UK market with its 2015 list. Although managing director Ghassan Fergiani relaunched the [...]