Weekly Roundup: February 10th-16th

Happy Monday from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

Today's weekly roundup has a great deal of forthcoming news and compelling book reviews to keep you busy during your commute wherever you might be in the world.

It's always hard to try and find a balance between all the interesting articles that come my way, however, a final decision has to be made and here it is.

Buona lettura!

• Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop owners arrested as books on Israel-Palestine conflict confiscated

• AAP, IPA Join Groups Calling for AI to Respect Copyright

• Love is in the air (fryer): Jamie Oliver is number one for second week running

• Grove Atlantic Launches Atlantic Crime - Publishers Lunch

• To blurb or not to blurb: UK trade weighs in on author quotes in 2025

• Amazon given 'partial victory' against France's €3 book delivery charge law

 

• UCLan's Centre of Publishing Excellence launches two new agencies and workshop

• Hay Festival 2025 programme cover revealed

• Design and illustration flourish at BolognaBookPlus

• Neneh Cherry and Anne Applebaum longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction 

• The Bookseller - News - The Society of Authors announces winners of £30k Translation Prizes

 

• Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – a precious and powerful work of literature | Books | The Guardian

• Truth and Reconciliation: Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity ‹ Literary Hub

• At 83, Anne Tyler Has a New Novel. She’d Rather Talk About Anything Else.

• Janet Malcolm Understood the Power of Not Being ‘Nice’ - The New York Times

• Why America is falling in love with romance bookstores

 

• Premio Strega 2025: arriva un nuovo riconoscimento dedicato alla saggistica. Tutte le novità

• BolognaBookPlus 2025: il nuovo AI Summit, il ritorno dell'Audio Forum e il programma di seminari

• "Orbital" di Samantha Harvey: al confine tra la Terra e lo spazio ignoto - ilLibraio.it

• "Diluvio non è una distopia, ma già la realtà”. Intervista a Stephen Markley - Lucy

 

- Lara Abrahams