AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoWalliams Investigation: London police are investigating children’s author David Walliams over allegations of serious sexual offences. Walliams denies wrongdoing; some libraries are removing his books from shelves, while children’s book advocates urge publishers to broaden representation. Booker Breakthrough: M. John Harrison’s The End of Everything has made history as the first science-fiction novel to win the Booker Prize, a landmark for a genre often kept outside literary fiction’s mainstream. Audiobooks: Spotify is taking on Audible with a launch featuring 350,000 English-language titles. Publishing Pressures: More than 100 publishers have backed a University Press Charter amid concerns over AI and financial strain. New Fiction: Reviews praise Kate Atkinson’s inventive Our Noble Selves, while John Green’s first adult novel, Hollywood, Ending, explores fame and the commercial machinery of art. Remembering Simon Winchester: The author and former foreign correspondent has died at 82, leaving a wide-ranging body of 30 books on history, science and the natural world.
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