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  • ‘One person writing in a quiet room, trying to connect with another person, reading in another quiet-or maybe not so quiet-room. Stories can entertain, sometimes teach or argue a point. But for me the essential thing is that they communicate feelings. That they appeal to what we share as...

Lizza Aiken on the Responsibility of Maintaining Her Mother's Literary Legacy

A report has found that more than half of children's books published in the last decade with a minoritised ethnic main character were by white authors and illustrators.

A decline in reading is affecting young people's ability to reason, and teachers are contributing to the problem

The book industry has launched an open letter calling on the government to create a plan to boost reading for pleasure for children across the UK. The letter invited the Prime Minister "to make a cross-government commitment to prioritise the role of reading for pleasure for children", investing...

Author Katherine Rundell and Claire Wilson, president of the Association of Authors' AgentsThe association of UK agents. Their website (...

Jacquie Walters on children, hopelessness, and discovering horror fiction.

Link: Number one in Mammals 7 October 2024

The One Show invitation has yet to arrive - Nick Duerden on life as a midlist author

A New Zealand author is "pinching" herself after a UK bidding war over her novel.

Link: The stories of genocides 7 October 2024

Heidi Kingstone on writing about the darkest episodes of the 20th and 21st centuries

Kellingly tells BookBrunch about Bloomsbury's new range of dyslexia-friendly books, and the importance of accessibility in publishing

Independent booksellers Topping & Company will open a new bookshop over multiple floors in central York in autumn 2025.

At just under 6,000 square feet, it is set to become "the largest independent bookshop in the country".

 

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