Shamsie wins 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Home Fire (Bloomsbury). Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of...
Bloomsbury reports best financial performance since founding in 1980s
Bloomsbury Publishing has reported a 13% surge in total revenues to £161.5 million (A$284.9m) in 2017, its best performance since it was founded in 1986, reports the Guardian. The publisher's global...
Bloomsbury to distribute Osprey Publishing
Publisher: Osprey Publishing ISBN prefixes: Various Old Distributor: Capricorn Link New Distributor: Bloomsbury Australia Changeover date: 01/01/2016 (See classified.)
Bloomsbury profit, revenue up
In the UK, Bloomsbury has reported slight growth in profit and revenue in the 12 months to the end of February, reports the Bookseller. The publisher reported revenue of £111.1m...
On tour: Meet the author Joanna Rakoff
Joanna Rakoff’s memoir My Salinger Year was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. Rakoff will be travelling to the Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week in February and March. What would...
Harry Potter Book Night announced for February 2015
Bloomsbury Children’s Books has announced it will run a Harry Potter Book Night on 5 February 2015. The publisher is inviting schools, bookshops, libraries and community groups to participate in the...
Bloomsbury Spark acquires first Australian novel
Bloomsbury Australia has acquired the first novel by an Australian to be published under its ebook-only Bloomsbury Spark imprint. Vanessa Barnevald’s young adult novel This is Your Afterlife is the...
Bloomsbury Australia revenue up 14%
Bloomsbury Australia’s revenue is up 14% for the year ended 28 February 2014. Bloomsbury Australia recorded revenue of £6.365 million (A$11.58 million), up from £5.583 million (A$10.16 million) in the...
Bloomsbury to publish illustrated Harry Potter books
Bloomsbury has announced that it will publish illustrated editions of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series with artwork from UK illustrator Jim Kay. The first title in the series, Harry...
Bloomsbury establishes Sigma imprint, announces distribution of Oneworld and Verso in ANZ
Bloomsbury has established a new popular science imprint called Sigma. Launching in October 2014, the imprint will produce around 15 titles a year, which will be released through Bloomsbury’s London,...
RiP Charles Black
Charles Black, director at Bloomsbury and former chairman of UK family publishing house A&C Black, has died, aged 76. Black started working at A&C Black in 1960 and served as chairman...
‘Two Left Feet’ app wins Australian Mobile Award
An app that uses 3D animation to transform Bloomsbury’s children’s book Two Left Feet into a ‘modern-day pop-up book’ has won two awards at the 2013 Australian Mobile Awards. The...
Bloomsbury Spark to launch in December
Bloomsbury has announced that it will launch its new digital-first imprint for young adult, teen and new adult fiction, Bloomsbury Spark, in December. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Bloomsbury Spark...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
Bloomsbury launches self-publishing comparison service
In the UK, Bloomsbury’s online writers’ resource Writers & Artists has launched selfpubcompare.com, a free self-publishing provider comparison website. Writers can complete a questionnaire on the website to find self-publishing providers that offer services most...
Cubitt joins Bloomsbury Australia
Former sales director at Simon & Schuster Australia Kate Cubitt has been appointed to the position of managing director at Bloomsbury Australia. She will start in the role on 4...
Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury sign with Wheelers ebook platform
ALS Library Services has announced that ebooks from Pan Macmillan and Bloomsbury are now available to Australian and New Zealand users of the Wheelers ePlatform library lending service. ALS managing...
Cubitt to replace Sherwin-Stark at Bloomsbury
Kate Cubitt has been appointed as the new managing director at Bloomsbury Australia. Cubitt most recently held the position of sales director at Simon & Schuster Australia. She will join Bloomsbury...
Australian company creates 3D animation app for existing picture books
Australian animation company Resin has created an app that uses 3D animation to transform Bloomsbury’s children’s book Two Left Feet (Adam Stower) into a ‘modern-day pop-up book’. The app, which...
Bloomsbury acquires natural history list from New Holland
Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired over 200 natural history titles from New Holland Publishers, which it plans to integrate into its own natural history list. The New Holland titles acquired by...