AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoPublishing Moves: Hodder has acquired former Tony Blair speechwriter Philip Collins’s portrait of Britain from 1997 to 2007. Alice Johnstone joins Viking to build its science-fiction and fantasy list, while Katy Follain will lead Bloomsbury’s UK adult consumer division. Booker Prize: M. John Harrison’s The End of Everything has won the 2026 prize, making the 81-year-old the award’s oldest recipient and the first science-fiction writer to win. Walliams Fallout: Irish booksellers are removing David Walliams’s books after women accused him of sexual misconduct; he denies wrongdoing, and HarperCollins has stopped supplying his titles. Industry Watch: AI publishing startup Spines has raised $64 million to automate publishing. Rights & Libraries: US publishers won a $19.5 million judgment in a piracy case against WeLib, while India’s Madras High Court ordered an investigation into alleged irregularities in Tamil Nadu library book purchases.
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