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If you’re into it, read into it! Whatever you’re into, reading lets you Go All In on your passions.    Whether it’s football, music, baking, family-time, sci-fi, or… anything, if you’re into it, read into it.    At Hachette UK, we believe that words have the power to change the world. Through them, we discover new worlds and learn how to change ours. We’re extremely proud to support the #NationalYearofReading2026. Check out their new advert below!   #GoAllIn2026

Writers, this one’s for you… We’re thrilled to announce that PageOne, Bookouture’s new online writing academy, has officially launched! Designed to deliver high-quality, accessible training from editors and industry experts, the academy aims to give writers the tools to write commercial stories with bestseller potential. It will include writing advice as well as insights from some of our incredible authors, including Lisa Regan, Daniel Hurst and Soraya Lane. The first course, Start Writing Commercial Fiction, will be released on 13th April 2026. It will guide new writers through the process of planning and writing a novel, with more advanced courses coming later in the year to support experienced authors. Interested? Of course you are! Learn more about the programme here: https://lnkd.in/ekKZzaqV

🙏 Announcing the Faith Champion Finalists 2026 At VERCIDA, we believe that a truly inclusive workplace is one where every individual feels empowered to bring their whole self to work, including their religious and spiritual beliefs. We are delighted to announce the shortlist for our Faith Champion award, recognising the organisations that are leading the way in creating religiously inclusive environments. Congratulations to our 2026 finalists: • Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) • The Football Association • Hachette UK • Sopra Steria These finalists have demonstrated that fostering a culture of respect for diverse faiths enriches the workplace and strengthens our communities. They are setting the benchmark for inclusion. Want to work for an employer that values your beliefs? Our Faith Champion finalists are hiring. Explore their profiles on VERCIDA to learn more about their commitment to inclusion and find your next role👉 https://zurl.co/tNh3P #VERCIDAAwards2026 #FaithInclusion #ReligiousDiversity #InclusiveWorkplace #EmployerBranding #ValuesMatter

It’s day two of The London Book Fair, and HUK has been busy! Our teams have hosted over 1,000 meetings on our stand, and Team Hodder & Stoughton marched through the aisles to highlight Wet Ink, an empowering, timeless story of self-discovery that speaks to the power of community and the different shades of desire within us all. Our volunteers have also been chatting with visitors about all things #RaisingReaders, our urgent and long-term campaign to raise awareness of the decline in the number of children reading for fun. The brilliant Mike Gayle also dropped by, who is Author of the Fair at #LBF26. Inspired by our Raising Readers campaign, we asked him to share his thoughts on what reading means to him and his experience reading as a child. Listen to his thoughts here: https://lnkd.in/exErEN2F We’ll see you all again for round three tomorrow! #LondonBookFair #RaisingReaders #ChangingTheStory

It was great to see Alice Oseman drop by the HUK stand at The London Book Fair this afternoon! 🍂 Alice, aside from being a bestselling author-illustrator and a BAFTA-nominated and Emmy-winning screenwriter of the Heartstopper series, is also Creator of the Fair at LBF 2026. She joined David Shelley on our stand, which features the newly revealed Heartstopper Volume 6 jacket, the final book in the series, and even had time to sign our #RaisingReaders pledge wall with some very familiar faces… #Heartstopper #LBF26

Almost 10,000 authors, including authors across Hachette UK, have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books and content by tech companies to train AI models at the start of The London Book Fair. Don’t Steal This Book is a plea from authors to the UK government to take a stance against Big Tech stealing content – without permission or payment – to build their AI models. The authors are also calling on ministers to rule out proposals in the AI and copyright consultation which would make it easier for companies to do this in the future. The UK government is considering legalising this large-scale theft. We urge them in the strongest possible terms to rule this out. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eUqXp-PR #DontStealThisBook

‘If you’re not moving forwards, you’re moving backwards’ - Ant Simnica, Hachette UK. We’re in the Author HQ at The London Book Fair this afternoon to hear the 'People-Powered Publishing’ panel. The panel featured our very own Ant Simnica, who shared his thoughts on drawing on the power of reader-led discovery through the Libraro platform and the importance of ensuring that everyone, everywhere, is able to see themselves in books. The panel also discussed our partnership with Libraro Prize, the way it provides a platform for fresh voices to emerge and how readers and writers can find community and shape culture. Understanding our consumers is vital to our business, and partnerships such as this help us find new ways to amplify stories that resonate with them. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/end_wQXM #ChangingTheStory

We’re coming to you live from the first day of The London Book Fair! Our stand is packed with books, and we’ve got colleagues across the business, from rights and sales to editorial and distribution, hosting meetings across the week. Are you at the fair this week? Have you signed our Raising Readers wall pledging to spend 10 minutes to raise a reader? Come to the Hachette UK stand and we’ll tell you all about it… #ChangingTheStory #RaisingReaders #LBF26

Today, we announced the retirement of Group Finance Director, Pierre de Cacqueray, along with the news that Matt Wright has been appointed as his successor. Jo Westbrook's promotion to CEO of Hachette UK Distribution will make her the first female CEO of a book supply chain business. David Shelley, CEO at Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group US, said: ‘I would like to pay tribute to Pierre, who has had an immeasurable impact on Hachette in his 29 years here, and has truly helped shape our group. On a personal level, he has been a brilliant business partner for the past nine years and I have so appreciated his vast expertise, his precision, and his humour. We all wish him a very happy and fulfilling retirement, and a rewarding next chapter. Matt Wright has done a remarkable job leading our Distribution business for the past 16 years. He has grown and developed it, and has shown a terrific mixture of commercial acumen, strategic flair and humanity. I am extremely excited to be working with him even more closely in his new role as Group CFO and can think of no one more capable of taking on the baton from Pierre. I also wanted to congratulate Jo who has led the operations at Hachette UK Distribution so successfully, and whose dynamism and determination to give 100% to our authors, client publishers and booksellers has always marked her out, as has her leadership of the remarkable team at HUK Distribution. I am thrilled that she will be stepping up as CEO.’ Read more: https://lnkd.in/e2UQ_NYi

In celebration of #nternationalWomen’sDay, our brilliant THRIVE Network has put together a book list highlighting outstanding works by women of colour.   Discover their curated HUK book list featuring powerful voices such as Octavia E. Butler, Candice Carty-Williams, Soraya Bouazzaoui and Tia Williams.   These authors reshape narratives, amplify underrepresented perspectives, and remind us why stories matter.   Join us in reading, sharing, and celebrating their work today and beyond.