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Children’s Books Edition: The UK’s Branford Boase Award 2022 Shortlist

In News by Porter AndersonMay 6, 2022

The Branford Boase program annually awards a debut novel for children–and the winning author’s editor is honored, too.

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The UK’s £40,000 Wolfson History Prize: 2021 Shortlist

In News by Porter AndersonApril 30, 2021

Jurors say their shortlist for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize reflects the modern relevance of history. Shortlisted authors are in the Hay Festival program on June 2.

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Bloomsbury’s Nigel Newton Receives London Book Fair’s Lifetime Achievement Award

In News by Porter AndersonFebruary 24, 2020

Nigel Newton, founding CEO of Bloomsbury, is to receive a London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award for his ‘huge contribution to the book industry.’

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Richard Charkin: A Year of Running Mensch Publishing

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinJune 14, 2019

Anniversary assessment; opening his own boutique press, Richard Charkin reveals that Mensch Publishing has grossed £16,389 (US20,688) before expenses.

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Richard Charkin: How (Not) To Start a Publishing Company, a Case Study

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinOctober 9, 2018

‘What I hadn’t anticipated was just how difficult it is to start a publishing business,’ writes Richard Charkin in a Frankfurt installment of his exclusive series for Publishing Perspectives.

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Richard Charkin: A Very Short History of the New Oxford English Dictionary

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinSeptember 26, 2018

In today’s installment in his exclusive monthly series, Richard Charkin recounts the development of ‘one of the great digital projects of our time.’

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Richard Charkin: A Tale of Two Titles

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinAugust 22, 2018

In this installment of his monthly column, exclusive to Publishing Perspectives, Richard Charkin looks at the question, ‘Why is that authors are typically paid a percentage of a notional retail price which hardly any customer pays?’

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Richard Charkin: Seed Questions for an ‘Agony Journal’ for Publishing, ‘Ask Emma’

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinJuly 18, 2018

In his exclusive column for Publishing Perspectives, Richard Charkin asks why ‘the largest advances … go to the authors who need the money least, and vice-versa?’ and other questions for a journal he’d call ‘Ask Emma.’

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An Exclusive New Column Series: Richard Charkin on the Vocabulary of Publishing

In Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinJune 20, 2018

If “unputdownable” means “putdownable” and “educational publishing” is “anything that’s not trade publishing,” what does “quality” mean in an insider’s lexicon of the book industry? Ask Richard Charkin.

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Kamila Shamsie Wins £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonJune 6, 2018

In the year that Kamila Shamsie once proposed as a ‘Year of Publishing Women,’ the Pakistani-British author has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018 for ‘Home Fire’ in London.

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