Our wonderful author Kirsten Boie won the IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award at this year’s Bologna book fair. The award was established by the Shenzhen iRead Foundation and IBBY to encourage the promotion of children’s reading and greater access to children’s books. Read more

Andrew Nurnberg Associates Limited (ANA), the London office of the international literary agency founded in 1977, has restructured its management team following Jenny Savill’s decision to return to looking after her authors full time. Savill, who held the post of Managing Director following the retirement of founder Andrew Nurnberg in 2022, will move to a… Read more

The news is finally out! Hachette Children’s Group has acquired author LA Weatherly’s three-book YA romantasy series, the Kindred. The first book in the series, SEVEN DEADLY SPELLS, is Romeo and Juliet with a magical mafia twist: an epic story of passion, family loyalty and betrayal! The post LA Weatherly’s Romatasy Trilogy Acquired by Hachette… Read more

Christian Berkel tells the novel of his childhood and youth in a rousing and touching way: a story about inner conflict, departure and cutting the cord – and incidentally a homage to literature, friendship and love. On October 4, 1957, the first satellites reach Earth’s orbit and shortly afterwards, Sputnik is born in West Berlin.… Read more