Emerald Publishing has been listed as one of the Times’ Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024. 

The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2024 has been awarded to Jackie Wullschläger for her biography of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet.

Children’s laureate Joseph Coelho was awarded the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing for his “multi-layered immersive” novel in verse, The Boy Lost in the Maze (Otter-Barry Books). Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration goes to American illustrator Aaron Becker.

Manchester University Press hires new production lead

Books by Rebecca F Kuang, Katherine Rundell, Hiba Noor Khan and Robert Tregoning have been awarded this year’s Indie Book Awards.

Ralf Biesemeier has been named managing director of Zebralution Audiobook, a German distributor of audiobooks and podcasts, taking over from Nils Hollmann.