Philip Jones

3 days ago | thebookseller.com | Philip Jones

News Atlantic Books celebrated its 25th anniversary with a party at the October Gallery in London with guests including its founder and former CEO Toby Mundy, former MD Will Atkinson, authors including Oyinkan Braithwaite, Hannah Beer, and Mark Forsyth, and agents such as Clare Alexander, Catherine Summerhayes and Jonathan Lloyd. Managing director Drummond Moir thanked authors and colleagues for their commitment to the business.

2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Philip Jones

Rights Scholastic is to publish a collector’s edition of Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth novel in The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. Sunrise on the Reaping: Collector’s Edition will be published simultaneously by Scholastic in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on 4th November 2025. The edition includes new cover art with metallic foil details, stained edges with stencilled art, full-colour floral endpapers and exclusive back matter.

2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Philip Jones |Ferdia Lennon

Don’t judge me. Over the past few weeks, I have been resurfacing books from my past as I fill the bookshelves of my new flat. Here is Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, The Ka of Gifford Hillary by Dennis Wheatley, Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School, Hunter S Thompson’s The Great Shark Hunt, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Lightning by Dean Koontz, Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry, and the beloved Love Is a Dog from Hell by the poet and all around bad influence, Charles Bukowski.

2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Ferdia Lennon |Philip Jones

News Glorious Exploits, written by Ferdia Lennon, has won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Novelist Tracy Chevalier presented Lennon’s publisher with £2,500 at a reception at the National Liberal Club in London on 21st May. Chevalier said: "Glorious Exploits is a remarkable leap of the imagination into 4th-century BC Sicily, where two young potters have the madcap idea of directing Athenian prisoners in a Euripides play.

2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Philip Jones

NewsThirty years after it floated on the UK Stock Exchange, Bloomsbury has reported “strong and resilient results” with sales up 5% to £361m and profits at £42m, down from £48m a year earlier. YOU’VE REACHED YOUR ARTICLE LIMITSign in or register below for free to unlock 2 articles each month and receive personalised newsletters to your inbox. ORHelp support our journalism and subscribe with unlimited access.