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Middle Grade (MG) titles have been the hottest properties
at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair, though some publishers and
agents have reported spikes in picture book sales and green shoots for
the Young Adult (YA) market. |
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The Women's Prize for Fiction has said it is working on a
policy around gender fluid, transgender and transgender non-binary
writers after featuring non-binary author Akwaeke Emezi on its
latest longlist. |
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Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s record-breaking
cookbook Pinch of Nom
(Bluebird) has rustled up a second week in the UK Official Top 50
number one spot, selling 122,073 copies in its first seven days on
sale. |
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Little Tiger Group is hoping to increase staff numbers
rather than cut jobs after its recent buyout by Penguin Random House
US, c.e.o. Monty Bhatia told The
Bookseller. |
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HarperCollins’ gender pay gap has remained broadly static
with the publisher saying it is "confident" of change long
term after introducing initiatives including enhanced parental leave,
balanced shortlists for senior roles and a blind recruitment process. |
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Hodder Education Group has bought the TeeJay Publishers’
list of 90 titles for the Scottish mathematics market. |
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US-based Books International has acquired UK distributors
Marston and its subsidiary Orca Book Services. |
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Laura Bates, founder of The Everyday Sexism Project, has
written a "modern feminist retelling of Lord of the Flies",
which will explore issues surrounding sexual assault and gender
stereotyping, for Simon & Schuster UK Children’s with the US rights
going for a six-figure sum. |
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Cambridge University Press has made small reductions to
its mean and median gender pay gaps—but its bonus pay gaps have
skyrocketed in the latest filing. |
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Romcom Dear
Emmie Blue by Lia Louis has led to a global “rights storm”
with the biggest German deal of her agent Juliet Mushens' career. |
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Blackwell’s has revealed a gender pay gap of 1.4% in
favour of men, a fraction lower than last year’s 1.8% and still less
than the national average of 17.9%. |
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Rachel Mann of the Jo Unwin Literary Agency has struck
deals with Macmillan Children’s Books and Walker Books for Bath Spa MA
graduates Wibke Brueggemann and Lucy Cuthew. |
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Penguin
Random House Children’s UK has acquired Hana Tooke’s début Middle
Grade title in a "significant" six-figure deal, with the
manuscript selling in pre-empts in Italy, France, Spain and Norway.
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Bloomsbury
Children’s is to publish a picture book by Disney art director Andy
Harkness on both sides of the Atlantic in winter 2021.
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Stripes
Publishing has struck a brace of deals at this year’s fair, inking a
wild swimming adventure for teens and its first book in translation.
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Sweet
Cherry has bought the publishing rights to a trio of licences:
Aardman Studios’ Shaun the Sheep, nostalgia brand Rainbow, and CBBC
reality TV-style show "The Next Step", which centres around
a dancing studio.
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In today's daily:
* Global children's charts
* Q&A's with Scribe and Sweet Cherry
* Donaldson and Scheffler muse on two decades of The Gruffalo
* Illustrator Showcase
* Horace Bent at Bologna
* My BCBF: Natasha Farrant
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Latest headlines for
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Latest headlines for
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The shortlists for The British Book Awards 2019 have been revealed. See
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Waterstones managing director James Daunt has warned that
the company's future is not yet secure. |
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Diversity and inclusion is high on the agenda at this
year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair, with US and UK publishers keen to
snap up stories by authors from backgrounds which have previously been
underrepresented in publishing.
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Publishers Mark Smith and Marcus Leaver have set up a new
publishing group and acquired Carlton Books. |
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A “dazzling” six-book shortlist has been announced for the
£25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which celebrates its
10th anniversary this year. |
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Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie and Amnesty
International have announced at Bologna Children’s Book Fair that they
will collaborate on a children’s book, with themes based around the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). |
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Bookseller Samuel Fisher’s debut novel The Chameleon is one
of two Salt titles longlisted for the £10,000 Desmond
Elliott Prize, with HarperCollins imprint Fourth Estate also
boasting two contenders. |
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Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) is to publish a 25th
anniversary follow-up to Eva Ibbotson’s classic The Secret of Platform 13,
written by Witch Wars author Sibéal Pounder. |
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Debuts dominate the shortlist in this year’s £30,000
Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers. |
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Scholastic will this autumn publish a new picture
book by the creators of The
Wonky Donkey, which hit the bestseller lists after a
video of a Scottish grandmother reading the book went viral. |
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British indie publisher Greenhill Books is to make its
first foray into children’s with Green Bean Books, a new imprint of
Jewish-interest titles. |
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Tinder Press has snapped up the "exuberantly
original" debut short story collection from Naomi Ishiguro. |
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Mitchell Beazley has acquired the first home decorating
book by Chrissie Rucker and her retail firm the White Company. |
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The shortlists for The British Book Awards 2019 have been revealed. See
them in full here
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The Publishers Association has called for a longer
extension to Article 50 after Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement
was voted down for the third time by MPs. |
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Enthuse Group, a specialist international publishing firm,
has announced the acquisition of a 51% stake in AA Media Ltd. |
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Amazon UK’s gender pay gap has reported no median gender
pay gap, with women earning the same as men, in comparison to the UK
average of 17.9% in favour of men. |
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Children’s publisher Scholastic has revealed a median
gender pay gap of 8.8%, a fraction up on last year’s 8.5% but still
less half the national average of 17.9%. |
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HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired exclusive
global rights to publish children’s books based on "Our
Planet", a TV show narrated by Sir David Attenborough that will
launch on Netflix this autumn. |
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Bloomsbury Children’s Books has commissioned author and
artist Emily Gravett to create images for an illustrated edition of J K
Rowling’s Quidditch
Through the Ages. |
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SAGE's latest gender pay gap disclosures show deeper
divisions between men and women's pay than in last year's inaugural
report. |
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Gail Honeyman, A J Pearce and Gill Sims are some of the
authors longlisted for the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize, with
HarperCollins taking five of the 12 nominated titles. |
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Simon & Schuster UK has won a “heated auction” to
publish SAS expert Billy Billingham’s memoir The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and
Win for "a significant" six-figure sum. |
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New literary event the Primadonna festival will give
"prominence to work by women”, with support from author Kit de
Waal and Curtis Brown agent Cathryn Summerhayes. |
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As Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2019 kicks off, children’s
publishers are preparing for a bus load of Brexit-inspired characters
to hit bookshelves—though publication dates are proving tricky. |
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Rough Guides is offering readers a free e-book version
when they buy printed travel guides, as the company tries to grow its
digital business. |
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Latest headlines for
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The shortlists for The British Book Awards 2019 have been revealed. See
them in full here
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MORNING BRIEFING
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Penguin Random House has acquired 30-year-old children's
indie Little Tiger Group for an undisclosed sum. |
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Bonnier Books acquisitions director and publisher Natalie
Jerome has parted ways with the company after two years. |
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Waterstones m.d. James Daunt has warned the business
cannot afford to pay the real living wage to its most junior staff and
increase the pay of its most experienced booksellers, as nearly 8,000
people backed the campaign calling for the rise. |
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It has been announced that Sophie Kinsella
will return to her bestselling Shopaholic series with her
first festive title, Christmas
Shopaholic, to be published in October 2019. |
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HarperCollins Children’s Books will present a new fiction
title from Judith Kerr, entitled The Curse of the School Rabbit, at next
week’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair. |
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Elsevier has reported a median pay gap of 39.4%, slightly
down from last year's 40.4%, but still over twice the current national
average which the Office of National Statistics currently puts at
17.9%. |
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Novelist Alaa al–Aswany says he is being sued in the
Egyptian military court for "insulting the president, the Armed
Forces, and judicial institutions", sparking concern from his UK
publisher Faber. |
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Zaffre has bought two new novels from Stacey Halls as TV
rights for her debut, The
Familiars, have been snapped up. |
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Viking has signed two new books from author Ben Macintyre,
with the first revealing unpublished intelligence sources about the
20th century's "greatest woman spy" Ursula Kuczynski. |
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Children’s literary agency The Bright Agency is launching
a literary list, led by director Arabella Stein. |
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The 20-book longlist for this year’s £10,000 Royal Society
of Literature (RSL) Ondaatje Prize has been revealed. |
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The Feminist Library has hit its crowdfunding target for a
move to south London after thriller writer Harriet Tyce made a crucial
£5,000 donation. |
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The Bookseller Group
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Walker
has pre-empted a début YA novel billed as "‘Stranger Things’
meets ‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch’" in a six-figure deal.
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Penguin
Random House UK Children’s has notched up its 20th deal for Sabina
Radeva’s originally crowdfunded reimagining of Charles Darwin’s On the Origins of Species.
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J Daugherty is to return to YA writing with a series of spy thrillers
focused around the daughter of a British Prime Minister.
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Usborne
has snapped up a Middle Grade standalone from The Cogheart Adventures
author Peter Bunzl, inspired by the true story of a feral child
brought to London by George I and raised at Kensington Palace.
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In today's daily:
* Global children's charts
* Feminist fairytales
* Horrid Henry turns 25
* Illustrator Showcase
* Horace Bent at Bologna
* My BCBF: Catherine Bell
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Latest headlines for
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Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s slimming cookbook Pinch of Nom (Bluebird),
based on the authors’ food blog, has become the fastest-selling
non-fiction title of the Nielsen BookScan era, selling a gastronomical
210,506 copies through the Total Consumer Market. |
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The European Parliament has passed the EU's new law on
copyright as trade bodies hail the first major revamp of copyright
rules in 18 years. |
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Orion has announced Alice Lloyd is joining the publisher
in a new role of commissioning editor for audio and podcasts. |
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Oxford University Press' latest UK gender pay gap details,
covering the year ending March 2018, show a small increase in the
median figure from 12.6% last year to 13.4% in 2017/18. |
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A new platform for underrepresented writers, Untitled, has
launched with its first free salon taking place next month in London. |
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The Feminist Library is only £5,000 short of its
crowdfunding target for its move to Peckham with just days left to go. |
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Crime author Val McDermid has launched the Blether
campaign, searching for real-life stories from the people of Scotland,
to be published on the Scottish Book Trust’s website. |
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English PEN has named its new director as Daniel Gorman,
current executive director of the Shubbak Festival. |
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Oneworld has bought two novels from former Janklow &
Nesbit agent Tim Glister. |
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Bonnier adult fiction imprint Zaffre has signed debut
authors Shirley Mann, Katie Hutton, and Gillie Holmes to its Memory
Lane list of saga-writing. |
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Knights Of has acquired Harriet!,
a book about a girl who finds out her hearing aid can help her
understand aliens from across the universe, by comedian Samantha
Baines. |
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The US Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
(SCBWI) and the group’s executive director Lin Oliver are seeking to
have a defamation suit filed against them by children's author author
Jay Asher thrown out. |
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