Hachette News

Hachette UK has committed to setting science-based targets for reducing its carbon emissions as part of the global Science Based Targets initiative, which provides companies with a clearly-defined path to low carbon transformation in line […]

Vaseem Khan, author of the Malabar House historical crime novels, is to present a series of videos offering a best practise guide to writing diversity in fiction for Hachette UK’s Future Bookshelf. The project is […]

Hachette UK is sponsoring and co-hosting a panel event for Black Ballad’s 2021 Book Festival, as part of a series of activities to mark Black History Month. Black Ballad’s inaugural festival, which is running from […]

Hachette UK’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employee network, THRIVE, has announced its plans to host two panel events to mark this year’s Black History Month. The panels, which will be held virtually in […]

Rising Stars, part of Hodder Education, is this week hosting a Festival of Reading in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, to mark the next phase in Hachette UK’s three-year partnership with the National Literacy […]

Nick Davies, Managing Director of John Murray Press and a member of the Hachette UK Board, has been appointed to the council of Creative UK, the membership body which represents, champions and supports the UK’s […]

Hachette UK has appointed Jane Dale as its new General Counsel, following Alex Hardy’s decision to return to Australia with her family later this year. Dale will take up the role in January 2022, based […]

Hachette UK has confirmed that it will open its five new national offices over the next three months, with Manchester and Bristol in July, followed by Newcastle in August, then Edinburgh and Sheffield in September. […]

Hachette UK is launching a series of free, virtual events called ‘Opening the Book’ to demystify publishing as it marks the fifth anniversary of its diversity and inclusion programme, ‘Changing the Story’, with a renewed […]

Hachette Pride, the LGBTQIA+ employee network at Hachette UK, is partnering with imprints across the publishing house to host a month-long digital celebration of gay, bisexual and trans authors and their stories from around the […]

Hachette UK’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic employee network, THRIVE, is hosting a free book club event in collaboration with Bloomsbury on Thursday 10th June.   The webinar, which will be hosted on Zoom from […]

Hachette UK’s Accessibility Network, which supports those with disabilities & neurodiversities to create, to read, to access and to work, has announced a partnership with Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, to deliver talks, […]