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A charity offering books to deprived households in several East London boroughs has this week celebrated its 7000th drop-off—and they’ve all been delivered by bicycle. BookBike was established by Emdad… Read more »

Last October, we wrote about the UK government’s plan to create a new children’s book in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, which would be given away free to… Read more »

A book in the popular Biff & Chip children’s series has been withdrawn from sale by Oxford University Press, following complaints that its pages depicting a “scary” country were “no longer appropriate”.… Read more »

Best known for her classic Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’s juvenilia remains a neglected but significant part of her literary canon. From childhood she was writing stories and poems, alongside and often… Read more »

As the conflict in Ukraine intensifies again in the east, and with an estimated 5 million people now estimated to have fled the country, humanitarian aid efforts continue. We’ve been… Read more »

This summer marks The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history, who has been on the throne for 70 years, since 1952. As part of the celebrations, The… Read more »

How early do you normally arrive for a flight? I give it a couple of hours myself—or at least enough time to buy some outlandishly-sized triangular Swiss chocolate and a… Read more »

We were once again taking a brief break from the page proofs—they will never end!—by scrolling through the digital resources available via the Brooklyn Public Library—our new favorite institution!—when we… Read more »

What do your bookshelves say about you? Have you been collecting for years, cramming books in any which way you can? Do you carefully stylise, organising by colour or category?… Read more »

“LIBRARIAN – HAPPY EASTER X” Three short words and a sign-off was all took to reopen one of the most intriguing literary mysteries of recent times. Back in November 2000, a… Read more »

In January 2022, Dutch publisher Ambo Anthos, and English publisher HarperCollins brought out the book The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation which controversially revealed the likely betrayer of Anne Frank and… Read more »

In the past decade, nearly 800 UK libraries have been forced to close since austerity measures were launched by the Conservative Party in 2010. Public spending cuts continue to bite hard… Read more »

While the closure of a publishing house is never something to celebrate, one Belgian company have found a way to extend their legacy: by donating 1,100 books to little free libraries.… Read more »

The publishing industry continues to band together against Putin, launching Book Aid for Ukraine. Organised by Hayley Steed, literary agent at the Madeleine Milburn Agency, Book Aid for Ukraine auctioned off over… Read more »

It is easy to feel helpless in times like these. What can we realistically do to help in a small way, as an estimated two million people flee Ukraine? How… Read more »

Happy World Book Day to one and all! WBD is traditionally a time when dressing up and school visits rule the day – but one unusual organisation is getting in… Read more »

A 143 year legacy will soon be coming to an end after it was announced this week that Waterstones has bought Blackwell’s, the UK’s biggest independent bookshop chain. We recently wrote… Read more »

Jan Pieńkowski, whose mischievous visuals illuminated the lives of millions of children, has died at the age of 85. He was best known as the illustrator of the best-selling Meg &… Read more »

Since its inception twenty years ago this February (02/20/02 to be exact), Melville House has been called “brilliant,” “anti-establishment,” “small but innovative,” and “[an] enticing American boutique.”  Twenty years later,… Read more »

The UK is a nation of dog-lovers, with a PDSA survey estimating 26% of UK adults keep a hound as a pet; that’s around 9.6 million dogs. And with the coronavirus… Read more »

He may have moved to Los Angeles and stepped away from his royal duties, but Prince Harry is still making headlines in the British Press. Last year, it was announced that Penguin Random House… Read more »

Difficult to stay positive about the world these days, isn’t it? A whole pandemic, the creeping rise of far-right nationalism, a cost of living crisis unprecedented in modern times, etc.… Read more »

The next, hottest, must-read author is from Idaho. Dillon Helbig has been on television talking about his Christmas themed, time-travel inspired graphic novel, and his rise to success has been written about by The… Read more »

It’s the little puzzle that could. Wordle started life last October, the simple invention of Josh Wardle, who grew up in Llanddewi Rhydderch, Wales, UK, and now works as a… Read more »

Blackwell’s is an institution in the UK. Benjamin Henry Blackwell opened the first family owned bookshop in Oxford to the public in 1849, making it one of Britain’s oldest booksellers. Benjamin Henry’s son,… Read more »

Last week, on January 27, Bookshop.org celebrated its second year of operation in the U.S., as well as its first year of operation in the UK. Through Bookshop.org, readers can… Read more »

Last week’s publishing news of the file-under-unbelievable stripe included the story that a shipment of cookbooks published by our partners at Penguin Random House were lost at sea during a… Read more »

Regular readers of this blog will know that we can’t resist a good Sir Terry Pratchett story, most recently bringing you news of the star-studded re-record of his Discworld audiobooks. Pratchett has… Read more »

Book banning is no novelty in American culture. It has ebbed and flowed throughout society since the dawn of books. When we examine the patterns behind banning books, it always… Read more »

It all began back in March 2011 when staff at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh noticed a stunning paper sculpture made from an old book had mysteriously appeared on a table.  The… Read more »

Last week, three U.S. senators introduced a new bill that could curtail Big Tech’s use of targeted advertising. The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act is sponsored by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Jan… Read more »

We were happily working away on some page proof, trying to remember the rules concerning the proper sequencing of front matter, when we received, out of the blue, a missive… Read more »