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Nigel Newton, chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (LSE:BMY) joins Proactive London presenter Katie Pilbeam to talk about his...

In commercial terms, there have been undoubted winners and losers from the coronavirus pandemic and Bloomsbury Publishing looks like a winner. Lockdowns have sparked a surge in interest in reading while a strategic move to become a digital business focused on the academic and professional information now looks far-sighted. The strategic growth initiative hatched in 2016 was called Bloomsbury 2020, with the ‘2020’ referring to the year rather than perfect vision. Primarily, the ‘pivot’ e...

Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (LON:BMY), talks to Proactive Londons Katie Pilbeam after the firm lifted market guidance...

Last modified on Wed 10 Feb 2021 08.41 EST Chillies come in such a bewildering array of shapes and colours these days that it doesn’t pay to be too specific: if a recipe calls for a particular sort, you are bound to be unable to find it. In any case, the difference between any two chillies is largely a matter of heat, and heat is largely a matter of taste. So forget about size or colour (green ones are generally hotter than red, but then they turn red anyway if you leave them sitting about...

Books, from near and far, to gift this holiday season Donna Liquori FacebookTwitterEmail 3of5 4of5This image released by Doubleday shows Colson Whitehead, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Nickel Boys." On Monday, the Library of Congress announced that Whitehead had won its Prize for American Fiction. Whitehead, 50, is the youngest winner of the lifetime achievement prize, which the library has previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Denis Johnson.Madeline Whitehead/APS...