Weekly Roundup: March 17th-23rd

Happy Monday from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

Here is our weekly roundup, full of interesting reviews, opinion pieces and news from the publishing world you might want to know.

As we approach the end of March, I would also like to remind you to get your tickets for the upcoming Bologna Book Fair. In the meantime, enjoy going through this list articles I have carefully curated. 

With that said, buona lettura!

 

• Fiction rises, non fiction falls GfK and NielsenIQ report

• Hachette UK publishes ethnicity and gender pay gap reports

• Palestinian bookseller on 'shocking' raids on Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop: 'It's a different world'

• Emma Lowe becomes new director of London Book Fair

• Mutiny brews in French bookshops over Hachette owner’s media grip

 

• Picador announces Alan Hollinghurst stage writing prize

• The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist. ‹ Literary Hub

• Abdurraqib, Carson, Matar Among 2025 NBCC Award Winners

 

• Read These Books Before They Hit Your Screens in 2025

• How To End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner review – the greatest journals since Virginia Woolf’s | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian

• The Bodley Head to publish memoir from Gisèle Pelicot

 

• Luigi Belmonte è ora direttore editoriale dell’area adulti di Giunti

• I libri per ragazzi del 2025 da leggere e regalare: oltre 30 consigli

• Al Sud si legge meno e ci sono meno librerie - la Repubblica

• Pimpa amica del mondo - Lucy

- Lara Abrahams