Matilda Battersby

6 days ago | thebookseller.com | Matilda Battersby

Peter Burns came up with the idea for his middle-grade novel Shadow Thieves while on holiday with his family in Highland Perthshire. “We were staying in a cottage in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forests and gorgeous mountains. I thought: ‘How cool would it be if there was a hidden school for criminals here?’” he says. A decade later, the first book about the elite international boarding school for thieves will be published by HarperCollins’ imprint Farshore on 5th June.

1 week ago | thebookseller.com | Matilda Battersby

It has been a week since BBC Maestro launched a two-and-a-half-hour masterclass from the famously publicity-shy Agatha Christie, who died 50 years ago. The project, which uses artificial intelligence to bring a simulation of the Queen of Crime back to life, has had a mixed reception, lauded as wonderfully creative by some and “a bit Frankenstein” by others.

2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Matilda Battersby

"When I was a young boy, back in the 1960s, I used to go on my own to the factory, which was about 50 metres from my house, and run around. I remember the smell of the lead and the noise of the casters,” says Jonathan Lewis, managing director of Gomer Press, based in Llandysul, mid-Wales. Lewis is speaking to The Bookseller fresh from winning Printweek’s Book Printer of the Year award. “It’s a huge accolade for us and we’re really pleased. Hopefully, it will help us win some new customers.

3 weeks ago | insidehousing.co.uk | Matilda Battersby

News1.00 PM Sovereign Network Group (SNG) has appointed Jon Milward to its board of directors and as chair of the major projects committee.

3 weeks ago | insidehousing.co.uk | Matilda Battersby

News10.30 AM A housing association’s broker has been found liable for “breach of duty” in a landmark High Court judgement. Picture: Watford Community HousingSharelinesHigh Court rules landlord entitled to additional £6m indemnity from insurance broker after data breach #ukhousing Watford Community Housing (WCH) brought a professional negligence claim against Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers for failing to make “timely notifications” of a data breach to one of three of its insurers.