Simon Pearson looks back over the three years that he and his wife, Fiona Gorman, spent researching and writing the biography of the eminent heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, which was published this week
Before I became a full-time writer, I spent a decade working as a criminal defence attorney. It was rewarding, exhausting, heart-breaking work. I'm glad not to be practising any longer, but I also feel lucky to have had the experiences I did during those years. Read more
Trade figures have described the non-fiction market's struggles against streaming channels, the cost of living crisis and depleted attention spans but stress a thirst for "solutions-based" publishing continues. Read more
Any bookish person who has ever passed through an airport in the United States will tend to have been struck by a contrast. Airport bookshops in the UK are piled high with thrillers, spy stories, romantic comedies and how-to books: untaxing fare for a long flight. Read more
Want to perfect your process for writing creative non-fiction, or elevate your writing style? Maybe you're making the move from fiction to non-fiction. Whatever your starting point, Freya Dean and Andrew Kenrick, writers and co-editors at Hinterland magazine are joined by their handpick of contributing writers to share their top tips for creating brilliant non-fiction writing.
Simon & Schuster has acquired the largest Dutch publishing group Veen Bosch & Keuning, including all of its publishers in the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as sister companies Thinium and Bookchoice.
The Publishers Association (PA) has criticised the government's response to a House of Lords report on AI, saying that it has failed to make "any tangible commitments to protect the creative industries against mass copyright infringement".
My publisher wife looks across at me reading a proof of one of her soon-to-be-released thrillers. 'The setting is great, isn't it?' she says. 'Really good,' I reply. 'Very generous.' Read more
'The one thing I take with me into my writing every single day, is that no one is ever really who you think they are. We're all projections of the person we think we should be' Read more
After a successful career as a talent agent - representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant - Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing - and refused to give up on her passion.
Not the real Anthony Horowitz, of course. He's exactly where you'd expect him to be-hunkered down at his desk, toiling away at the next novel even as his newest is hitting bookshelves around the world.
Open to unpublished, unagented children’s writers based anywhere in the world.
Entry fee £20
Prize:
First Prize: a publishing contract with Chicken House with an advance of £10,000, plus the offer of representation from literary agent representation by Lydia Silver of Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency.
‘I always quote Kurt Vonnegut. He said in the early part of his career he was dismissed as a science fiction writer and that critics tend to put genre books, including sci-fi, in the bottom drawer of their desk... It's true. I get the New York Times every Sunday. In 37 novels, I've never had a stand-alone review. I'm always in the crime round-up.