The 2022 Kindle Storyteller Award, a £20,000 literary prize recognising outstanding writing by authors who publish through Kindle Direct Publishing, has been won by Peter Gibbons for his novel, King of War. He said, ‘I am absolutely delighted and honoured to have won this year’s award. I have always dreamed of becoming an author and I would like to thank Kindle Direct Publishing for making that ambition a possibility.’ (GD)
Publishers Simon & Schuster, Pan MacMilland and Canongate all announced that they would be giving staff a oneoff payment to help with the cost of living crisis.