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LBF 2026: Publishers Affirm the Value of Bibliodiversity, Community
Following late-night parties, the London Book Fair’s final day closed with panels focused on fighting against monoculture, amplifying underserved voices, supporting young readers, and developing the next generation of publishing professionals.
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LBF 2026: Pan Macmillan CEO Says Books Need to Be ‘as Urgent as Notifications’
In her Wednesday keynote address at the London Book Fair, Joanna Prior tackled the growing literacy crisis, arguing that “the decline of reading is a greater challenge to our industry than AI could ever be.”
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LBF 2026: A.F. Steadman Looks Ahead
Before her Author of the Day conversation at the London Book Fair, we checked in with the writer of the wildly popular Skandar series and talked about what’s next after The First Unicorn Rider.
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LBF 2026: The French Publishers’ Agency Sells What Americans Can’t Write
The New York–based literary agency, in business since 1983, serves as a bridge between French publishers and American editors, selling the rights to dozens of titles a year, often for books with a distinctly Francophone perspective.
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Literary Portals: Deep Vellum on Publishing Tatiana Țîbuleac
Publisher Will Evans and rights director Sarah McEachern chatted with PW about bringing the Moldovan-Romanian author to the London Book Fair in honor of her English-language debut, The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes, translated by Monica Cure.
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LBF 2026: PRH UK CEO Talks AI, Corporate Publishing, and Reading Promotion
Tom Weldon opened the London Book Fair with a wide-ranging interview covering AI, corporate publishing, and why the industry should get less “preachy” about reading rates.
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London Book Fair 2026: Isolarii’s Avant-Garde Ambitions Get Bigger
Isolarii has 3,000 global subscribers for its distinctive palm-sized books and is now making its move into the traditional trade with a new line of full-sized paperbacks, dubbed Isobacks, as well as more co-publishing deals and a slate of related media projects.
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London Book Fair 2026: English PEN’s Translation Support Seeds Success
English PEN has now awarded over £1 million of funding to 400 books for translation, including several recognized by the International Booker Prize, including winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushta. The latest round of grants focuses on translating Brazilian literature.
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LBF 2026: U.K.’s Defiant Akoya Bets Big on Translated Lit
The London-based independent press, launched last year by Norwegian entrepreneur Camilla Hagen and managing director Xenia Stafford in defiance of publishing patriarchy, plans to release more than 30 titles over the next two years.
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London Book Fair 2026: U.K.’s Boldwood Books Targets America’s Libraries
The London-based commercial fiction publisher started at a kitchen table, has a no-returns business model, and makes £11 million in annual sales. What’s next? Extending its popular large print and POD library sales to the U.S. market.
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