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London Book Fair Appoints Emma Lowe as New Director
Lowe succeeds Adam Ridgway as the new director of the London Book Fair, making her the fourth person to take on the role since 2020. Ridgway, who ran the fair for one year, will retire after a 36-year career in conferences and exhibitions.
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London Book Fair 2025: Publishers Are the World’s ‘Professional Survivors’
This year’s London Book Fair was even more bustling than the last, with a robust American contingent present. While the fair reflected many of the maladies affecting the world—from the war in Ukraine to protests in Gaza to erratic threats from the American president—the show went on, full speed ahead.
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London Book Fair 2025: The Books of the Show
It’s one of the busiest weeks for dealmaking on the book business calendar. We’re keeping track of the big book deals you need to know about while out exploring the show floor.
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London Book Fair 2025: Q&A with Debut Novelist Anne Meredith
Meredith spoke with PW about making her literary debut after 40, what screenwriting taught her about fiction, and her buzzy novel, Jaded, set for worldwide publication from Summit Books in early 2027.
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London Book Fair 2025: James Daunt, David Shelley Stay Optimistic
The respective publishing and bookselling executives—who each run businesses on both sides of the Atlantic—praised BookTok, pondered AI, compared market trends in the U.S. and U.K., and more during their Tuesday panel at the London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair 2025: Q&A with Author Rupal Patel
Patel talked with PW about how her experience at the CIA shaped her approach to business and leadership, and the process of transforming these insights into her debut book, From CIA to CEO.
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London Book Fair 2025: Q&A with Gaurav Sabharwal, CEO of Prakash Books
Sabharwal spoke with PW about the launch of Prakash Books' new imprint, White Arrow Books, helmed by Indian industry veteran Meru Gohkale, as well as the company's strategic plans for expanding in the U.S. and U.K.
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London Book Fair 2025: Q&A with Dan Houser, Video Game Creator Turned Author
The pioneering video game designer is adapting his top-rated podcast A Better Paradise into his first novel. Houser spoke with PW about different forms of storytelling and how his creative process translates to the book business.
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London Book Fair 2025: Q&A with Author of the Day Claudia Piñeiro
We spoke with the Argentine novelist about the value of international book fairs, the importance of literature in translation, and her prestigious role at this year’s show.
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London Book Fair 2025: Rights Center Central
At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jinwoo Chong, Laila Lalami, Patricia Lockwood, and Brandon Stanton, among others.
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London Book Fair Gets Its Third New Director in Four Years
RX, which owns the London Book Fair, has announced that Adam Ridgway, previously commercial director at RX, will take over as fair director. He replaces Gareth Rapley, who was in the position for two years.
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London Book Fair 2024: Empowering Women and the Working Class
Two panels at the London Book Fair on Thursday emphasized the ongoing challenge of giving opportunities to women and working-class people to write, publish, and advance themselves in the publishing and creative industries.
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London Book Fair 2024: The State of Audiobooks, From AI to Ads
Panelists from Audible, Bookwire, Penguin Random House, Spotify, and Storytel discussed the state of audiobooks, noting that sales continue to boom and there are new opportunities arising from advancing technology and business models.
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London Book Fair 2024: Many Faces, Old and New
Fairgoers feel positive that this year's fair is, if not the biggest, then easily one of the biggest fairs since Covid, and definitely the most exciting—and shared a couple of contenders for the semi-mythical title of "book of the show."
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London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights for Thursday
You made it! Welcome to Day Three of the London Book Fair. There are still plenty of panels on the docket for today at this year's Seminar Program. Here are our recommendations.
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London Book Fair 2024: How Will AI Change Life for Literary Translators?
They can generate (iterative) images. They can generate (iterative) text. But how will large language models change translation—especially for literary translators? A panel at the London Book Fair suggested some possible outcomes.
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London Book Fair 2024: Rise of English-Language Sales Threatens European Publishers
Several key European markets are seeing rapid growth in English-language book sales, threatening to cannibalize sales of translated editions published in their native markets, as the TikTok generation is increasingly happy to read in English.
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London Book Fair 2024: Trust, Innovation, and the Freedom to Publish
On the first morning of the London Book Fair, the heads of the International Publishing Association, the Federation of European Publishers, the Association of American Publishers, and the African Publishers Network gathered to discuss, and debate, the biggest issues facing the publishing industry today.
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London Book Fair 2024: Program Highlights for Wednesday
Welcome to Day Two of the London Book Fair. If you still need to decide between the more than 150 panels and discussions available on tap for this year's Seminar Program, we've got some suggestions.
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Book Aid International to Donate Another 15,000 Books to PEN Ukraine’s Unbreakable Libraries Project
The U.K.-based nonprofit Book Aid International has partnered with PEN Ukraine, English PEN, and PEN International, one year after an initial meeting at the London Book Fair set the collaboration into motion. In addition to last year's 25,000-book shipment, 15,000 books will be donated this year to support war-affected libraries in Ukraine.
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