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Independent bookshop Travelling Through has shut down
following five years of trade, as Booksellers Association m.d.
Meryl Halls says the closure has highlighted how "fragile our high
streets are".
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Audiobook streaming service BookBeat has launched in 24
new European markets, making the service available in 28 countries
overall.
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Universal Pictures has reportedly optioned the film rights
to author Jojo Moyes' forthcoming novel The Giver of Stars (Michael
Joseph), with director Ol Parker of the "Mamma
Mia!" sequel.
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Kelly Ellis is leaving Bonnier imprint John Blake to join
HarperNonFiction in the newly created role of publishing director, with
responsibility for popular culture and element.
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Indie publisher Hashtag Press is launching a
new imprint to showcase exclusively BME voices.
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HQ has promoted Charlotte Mursell to senior commissioning
editor for both fiction and non-fiction.
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Egmont rights director Tracy Phillips is moving to
Hachette Children's Group (HCG) to replace Andrew Sharp, who is leaving
publishing to train as a teacher.
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Chatto & Windus has welcomed a trio of new poets to
its poetry list—Kaveh Akbar, Romalyn Ante and Leo Boix.
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Holly Seddon has moved to Trapeze after signing a two-book
deal with the Orion imprint.
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Tributes have been paid to romance novelist 91-year-old
Judith Krantz, who has died, from natural causes, with her
long-time UK publisher Transworld saying she "was the writer who
defined a genre".
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The Royal Society of Literature celebrated the late Andrea
Levy’s contribution to literature last night, as it elected 45 new
Fellows and Honorary Fellows.
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Bloomsbury has signed a global two-book deal with American
YA author Brigid Kemmerer.
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The busiest day in the publishing calendar falls on 3rd
October, with Philip Pullman, Tom Fletcher and Jojo Moyes among the big
names jostling for sales ahead of the key Christmas period. |
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A number of writers have pulled out of Bradford
festival in protest over funding from a government counter-extremism
programme. |
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Orion Fiction has promoted Emad Akhtar to publisher, while
Francesca Pathak will step up to publishing director. |
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The number of BAME poetry reviewers writing for national
publications has more than doubled in the last two years, a report has
shown, although the London
Review of Books has only published white poetry critics
reviewing white poets throughout the eight-year span of the research. |
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After the climax of HBO’s "Game of Thrones"
propelled George R R Martin’s A
Game of Thrones to the e-book top spot a fortnight ago,
another TV adaptation has been boosted to the Weekly E-Book Ranking
number one: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens. |
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Faber’s editorial director Louisa Joyner has been promoted
to publishing director with immediate effect. |
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An initiative has been launched by the IPG to help indie
publishers sell more rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair and give their
books global exposure. |
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Picador has signed the "unforgettable" first
book from prison philosophy teacher Andy West in a six-way auction,
promising a compelling look inside UK jails alongside explorations of
life’s most urgent questions. |
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Bella Mackie has struck a two-book deal for a
"significant" five-figure sum with The Borough Press,
with plans to publish her first novel in summer 2021. |
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Nosy Crow author Christopher Edge has won the inaugural
£1,000 STEAM Children’s Book Prize for The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day. |
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Paramount Pictures has bought film rights to Adrian
McKinty’s upcoming thriller The
Chain (Orion) in a seven-figure deal. |
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Audible has secured worldwide audio rights, excluding the
US, to Bill Bryson’s new book The
Body: A Guide for Occupants (Transworld). |
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A court judgment in a long-running libel case is a victory
for free speech and offers vital protection to non-fiction publishers
concerned about defamation claims, English PEN says. |
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Clare Smith has been promoted to executive publisher,
literary at Little, Brown Book Group. |
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Queenie author Candice
Carty-Williams has left Vintage after almost three years as senior
marketing executive at the imprint. |
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Ex-District Attorney Linda Fairstein’s US agent ICM has
reportedly cut ties with her following the fall-out from the Netflix
show about the wrongful prosecution of the Central Park Five. |
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American author Emily Ruskovich has won the 2019
International Dublin Literary Award for her debut novel Idaho (Chatto
& Windus). |
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Puffin, part of Penguin Random House Children’s,
will publish a new novel about Tracy Beaker and her daughter Jess
by Jacqueline Wilson, in October. |
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Bloomsbury editorial director Alexa von Hirschberg is to
replace Lee Brackstone as head of Faber Social. |
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Former Indigo Press publishing director Ellah
Wakatama Allfrey will join Canongate's London office as editor-at-large
later this month, working on fiction. |
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Ebury says Spanish colonel Pedro Baños’ book on
global power does not contain anti-Semitic views or any legal
concerns, following a review after allegations of anti-Semitism from
British author Jeremy Duns. |
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Bonnier’s Amelia Evans will move back to Cornerstone as
rights director while Annamika Singh will also join the imprint as
rights assistant from Dorling Kindersley. |
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Industry insiders have reacted angrily to analysis from
the Guardian that
shows that only five out of the top 100 bestselling picture books of
last year featured a person of colour in the central role, and male
characters were more prominent than female. |
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Jacaranda Books has hired Cherise Lopes-Baker as
commissioning fiction editor to launch a YA list. |
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US book distributor Readerlink LLC is preparing a bid for
Barnes & Noble that could beat the price agreed by Waterstones
owner Elliott Advisors Ltd, it has been reported. |
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A decline in Christian bookshops means readers are buying
religious titles online, with many indies booksellers failing cash
in on demand, publishers say. |
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Jenny Platt is moving from Michael Joseph to become Hodder
& Stoughton’s senior publicity manager in a shake-up that also sees
Rebecca Mundy promoted to publicity director. |
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American author Linda Fairstein has been been dropped
by her US publisher Dutton amid controversy around her former role
as chief of the Manhattan district attorney’s sex crimes unit and
heightened criticism of her involvement in the Central Park Jogger
case. |
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Graham Norton, Stephen Fry and Elizabeth Day are among the
authors taking part in this year’s Love Audio Week, as a survey shows
more than a fifth of book buyers now consume audiobooks. |
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The longlists for the Polari Prize and the Polari First
Book Prize have been revealed, with stories about trans lives and
gender identities featuring heavily on the 24-strong list. . |
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Manchester University Press has signed a US distribution,
sales and marketing agreement with Ingram Academic Services. |
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Little, Brown imprint Robinson will publish Patrick Vernon
and Dr Angeline Osborne’s book 100
Great Black Britons to coincide with the announcement
of the new list in 2020. |
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Mariella Frostrup will join the judging panel for Amazon’s
£20,000 Kindle Storytelling Award, as the prize returns for its third
year. |
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Faber will publish comedian Stewart Lee’s next book, March of the Lemmings,
based on his newspaper columns providing “the scathing, riotous
record the Brexit era deserves”. |
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Bloomsbury has partnered with BookTrust to mark 20 years
since publication of Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, with artists such as
Chris Riddell and Jim Kay creating original Patronus pictures. |
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International research funder consortium cOAlition S has
delayed the start date of Plan S – the controversial initiative which
had aimed to make all government-funded research Open Access from
January 2020 – by a year. |
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Sara Barnard has won The Bookseller's YA Book Prize in
its fifth year for her "unflinching" and "utterly
riveting" contemporary novel about the impact of a
teacher-student relationship, Goodbye, Perfect (Macmillan
Children's Books). |
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Puffin’s recent venture into a physical subscription
service is a rare foray from the big lists, despite a number of indie
publishers enjoying fine returns from both digital and print offerings
to subscribers. |
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Bonnierförlagen, Sweden’s largest publisher and part of
Bonnier Books, has ceased supplying new audiobooks to the country’s
largest streaming platform, Storytel, in a row that could shape how
subscription services compensate publishers and authors. |
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Booksellers face a “tough” landscape but have the
opportunity to sell experiences beyond the product itself, ABA c.e.o.
Oren Teicher told Book Expo as the second day of the conference
explored the power of retail. |
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Pottermore will release four Harry Potter stories
as eBook shorts next month. |
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Anna Burns is the bookies' favourite to win the £30,000
Women's Prize for Fiction, with the latest odds from William Hill
putting Milkman
(Faber) at 6/4. |
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Faber remains tight-lipped as Moby cancels his UK and
Ireland book tour after a row with Natalie Portman over sections of his
memoir Things Fall
Apart. |
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Creative Scotland has rejected the Scottish Review of
Books' (SRB) latest funding application, forcing the publication to
suspend its print edition. |
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Atlantic Books has pre-empted UK Commonwealth rights for The Cat and the City,
the "disturbing, delightful" debut novel by Nick
Bradley. |
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Wildfire has scooped a book based on the "endlessly
amusing" and hugely popular Instagram comic Strange Planet by
Nathan Pyle. |
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Pan Macmillan has pre-empted world rights to an
“incredibly smart and heartbreaking” debut by Charlotte Levin. |
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Women dominated the opening Leadership Roundtable at Book
Expo, as the panel suggested audio is no longer a competitive format
and called for greater diversity in publishing. |
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Raynor Winn has been awarded the inaugural
£10,000 RSL Christopher Bland Prize for her memoir, The Salt Path (Michael
Joseph). |
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Gail Honeyman and Gail Sims have been shortlisted for the
inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize (CWIP), with the shortlist
dominated by HarperCollins authors. |
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Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry's memoir, Face It, will be
published by HarperCollins in October. |
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Ed Wood has been promoted to publishing director at Sphere
Fiction and IP director for Little, Brown. |
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Zaffre has announced the second novel by bestselling
author Stacey Halls, The
Foundling, will be published next February. |
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Jack Monroe has sent more than 6,000 copies of her latest
book, Tin Can
Cook, to food banks this week after organising a
crowdfunding campaign that raised more than £30,000. |
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Canelo has launched an audiobook publishing programme and
announced two new arrivals at its editorial team. |
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Tiger Aspect has triumphed in a four-way auction for TV
rights to Let Me
Not Be Mad by A K Benjamin, as the neuropsychologist's
latest book goes to Bodley Head. |
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Dani Atkins is returning to Head of Zeus after the
publisher pre-empted her new novel in a two-book deal. |
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Virago has appointed Rose Tomaszewska from Quercus as
senior commissioning editor, covering parental leave for Sarah Savitt. |
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Liverpool University Press will run the Historic England
imprint in a new partnership, managing its 300-plus backlist titles, as
well as publishing new books under licence. |
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Hello
Colleague,
We all have
different modes when we attend conferences. Some of us scribble notes
furiously. Some of us like to sit back and have all that insight wash over
us. Some of us network like machines. Some prefer to observe. And some like
to delve even deeper.
That’s where the surgeries come in. Five experts on everything
from metadata to marketing will take up residence during the breaks to answer
your campaign questions one-on-one. This year’s surgeries will be:
Marketing: Rob Cox, cofounder Tandem Collective
Publicity & Events: Dusty Miller, independent
communications consultant
Metadata & Websites: Mark Harvie-Watt, ceo Supadu
All things Amazon: Claire Leon & Ross Caveille,
cofounders Acorn-i
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Rob Cox
Co-Director
Tandem Collective
Rob
Cox is Co-Director of Tandem Collective, a Marketing, PR and social
strategy consultancy whose clients include Ebury, Simon & Schuster,
Hardie Grant and Elliot & Thompson. He was previously Head of Content
and Brand Marketing at Pan Macmillan. |
Dusty
Miller
Independent Communications Executive
Dusty has over 20 years
publishing experience. Formerly Communications Director for Non-Fiction
& Events at Pan Macmillan, she has also worked at Faber & Faber,
Titan and Verso. She has produced sell-out tours, innovative social media
and headline press coverage for talents such as Adam Kay, Vivienne
Westwood, Lord Sugar, Richard Wiseman and Louis Theroux.
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Mark Harvie-Watt
CEO
Supadu
Mark Harvie-Watt is Supadu's CEO and the chief architect of
Supadu's products and solutions for trade and academic
publishers. He has 18 years’ experience in publishing and is
particularly keen on website solutions, search, eCommerce and
accessibility. |
Claire
Leon
Co-founder
Acorn Intelligence
A former Agency Development
Lead at Amazon, supporting Search, Display and Voice Advertising growth with
leading partners, Claire has spent the last 6 years at Amazon focusing on
driving the knowledge and understanding of Amazon’s advertising tools and
services. She now works closely with brands helping them maximise
their return on investment in e-commerce, sharing her in-depth knowledge to
guarantee strong sales performance and profitability.
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Ross Caveille
Co-founder
Acorn Intelligence
Formerly General Manager of the Amazon DSP for Europe,
having spent 5 years in leadership roles across Amazon, Ross has more than
15 years experience in connecting brands with consumers via digital and
traditional channels. As Co-Founder of Acorn Intelligence, Ross
continues to deliver results for partners and build the next generation
technology and services organisation for e-commerce. |
If you’ve already
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She’ll respond with your designated surgery time. Spaces for these book very
quickly so don’t delay!
If you’ve not already booked your ticket...BOOK YOUR
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you in June!
Miriam
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Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s blockbuster Pinch of Nom (Bluebird)
has secured another week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, its
seventh overall and its fifth consecutively. |
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Knights Of's Aimée Felone has won the Kim Scott Walwyn
Prize for her "astonishing contribution" to the industry in
just five years in publishing. |
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Slay in Your Lane co-author Yomi Adegoke has
accused BBC Sport of plagiarism, claiming the BBC "ripped
off" the title of her and Elizabeth Uviebinené's Fourth Estate
book in a sports advertising campaign. |
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W H Smith has been named the worst shop on the UK High
Street for the second year running, according to the latest Which?
survey, as the retailer warns the poll is "neither statistically
relevant nor meaningful". |
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Bradford Literature Festival and Edinburgh Book Festival
have joined forces to launch a new collaboration to unite publishers
from Scotland and the North of England. |
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A Thomas Harris fan has won a one-off gold edition of the
author's latest thriller in a nationwide social media treasure
hunt. |
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Julia Donaldson will visit bookshops in West Sussex,
Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Lancashire, West Yorkshire and the Scottish
Borders to celebrate this year’s Independent Book Week. |
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Andy Sharp, group rights director at Hachette Children’s
Group, will leave his position in July before embarking on a new career
as a teacher. |
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John Murray has snapped up Costa First Novel winner Andrew
Michael Hurley's third novel as film rights go to House Productions. |
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Unbound has launched a crowdfunding campaign to publish a
graphic novel adaptation of Michael Rosen’s You’re Thinking About Tomatoes,
originally published in 2005 by Barn Owl Books. |
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Canongate has launched the Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature
Writing, as Oscar-nominated actor Tilda Swinton records the audiobook
of Shepherd’s The
Living Mountain (Canongate). |
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David Higham Associates has selected a 12-strong shortlist
of authors to attend its second open day for writers from
under-represented backgrounds. |
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Bonnier Books UK has voluntarily revealed its gender pay
gap of 8.2%, as c.e.o. Perminder Mann says equality is
"crucial" if the business is to stay relevant. |
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Pat Barker says she has a distrust of the publishing
industry’s regional and class diversity drives because it could be
"fashionable" and may not represent a long-term commitment. |
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Editorial director for Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N),
Paul Murphy, is leaving his role after more than eight years with
Orion, following a “review" of the imprint's non-fiction
commissioning team. |
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Egmont UK Limited saw sales drop 16.7% to £41.6m due to
“challenging market conditions in books” and a consolidation of its
magazine portfolio. |
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Wenlock Books will cease trading next month amid difficult
trading conditions and a lack of footfall. |
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Virago says it stands by Naomi Wolf and the thesis for her
book, but will make "any necessary corrections" after she was
accused on the BBC of misunderstanding a key legal term. |
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Academics in the arts, humanities and social sciences
(AHSS) voiced concerns that Open Access mandates will
damage academic freedom at a conference held at Goldsmiths,
University of London. |
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RED Production Company has optioned Everywoman: One Woman's Truth
About Speaking the Truth (Random House) by Labour MP Jess
Phillips, to be developed into a TV drama. |
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The Reading Agency has made two new hires as it prepares
to re-launch its Quick Reads scheme later this year. |
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J L George and Peter Goulding have won this year's New
Welsh Writing Awards, bagging £1,000 each and feedback from Curtis
Brown literary agent Cathryn Summerhayes. |
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Talent management collective Tricycle Talent has acquired
a minority stake in Rachel Mills Literary (RML). |
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BBC Arts is launching an "ambitious new season"
across BBC TV and radio this autumn, with a year-long festival
celebrating the novel and a series on how novels have shaped the
world. |
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paying tribute to the “extraordinary” Judith Kerr, following her death
at the age of 95. |
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Bonnier’s group sales, marketing and publicity director
James Horobin is leaving the firm to join his old boss Mark Smith at
his new venture Welbeck Publishing Group. |
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Orion consultant publisher and Gollancz chair Malcolm
Edwards is stepping down from his roles after first joining the SFF
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Despite recent turmoil in the boardroom, the heads of
imprints at Quarto have been busy reshaping the business while
retaining the company’s ethos. |
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The Weekly E-Book Ranking has often shown that Science
Fiction & Fantasy authors have some of the most dedicated core
readers, who can push a title into the top 20 largely on pre-orders. |
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Camden Lock Books will close in July after 18 years of
trading in London’s Old Street, partly due to the pressure of rising
business rates and rent. |
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Retailers have unveiled special editions of Hilary
Mantel's The Mirror
& the Light in a bid to maximise pre-orders for the
long-awaited final novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. |
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Simon Beecroft, DK’s publishing director for licensing, is
leaving the company after 20 years. |
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Ian Rankin has donated his literary archive, including
correspondence with authors like J K Rowling, Iain Banks and Ruth
Rendell, to the National Library of Scotland. |
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George R R Martin has set himself a deadline for the
penultimate Game of Thrones book, The
Winds of Winter, saying if he has not finished the novel by
August 2020 then fans should “imprison” him in a small cabin until it
is done. |
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PFD has revealed a number of staff changes with Alexandra
Cliff due to leave the agency, promotions for Rebecca Wearmouth and
Laura Otal and a new role for Giulia Bernabe. |
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Ebury has acquired four new titles from Pam Ayres as part
of a major deal, with early material showing the poet to be “absolutely
at her peak”. |
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Hilary Mantel’s next novel The Mirror & the Light will
be published in March 2020, 4th Estate has revealed, following fevered
speculation around a billboard image circulated online. |
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Picador has revealed promotions for Ravi Mirchandani,
Francesca Main and George Morley as part of an editorial restructure. |
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Sourcebooks has sold a 45% ownership stake to Penguin
Random House to enable the American independent publisher to take a
“broader and deeper approach to domestic and global markets”. |
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Viking has acquired TV presenter Richard Osman’s debut
novel, The Thursday
Murder Club, and one other novel, for a seven-figure sum,
after triumphing in one of the biggest auctions of 2019. |
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Booksellers Association m.d. Meryl Halls has urged the
Treasury Select Committee to "level the playing
field" and reform business rates. |
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The Bookseller’s acting marketing
director Hattie Adam-Smith has been appointed Vintage Classics
editorial director in a newly created role. |
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Debut author Kelly McCaughrain has won a trio of prizes at
the Children’s Books Ireland awards—a first in the 29 year history of
the prize. |
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Melissa Harrison has been revealed as the UK winner of the
European Union Prize for Literature 2019 with All Among the Barley (Bloomsbury
Circus), a novel exploring the dangers of nationalism and xenophobia. |
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Hay Festival and Tes
have unveiled their essential reading lists for primary and
secondary schools to inspire the next generation of book-lovers as part
of the #BooksToInspire campaign. |
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Guy Gunaratne has won The Authors' Club's 2019 Best First
Novel Award for In
Our Mad and Furious City (Tinder Press). |
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Raymond Antrobus has made the shortlist for the Forward
Prizes for Poetry, with this year's nominees including poems "that
play havoc with the boundaries of literature, combining formal ambition
and emotional charge". |
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Mitchell Beazley has scooped the first cocktail book from
London gin pioneers Sipsmith featuring 100 “uncompromisingly delicious”
recipes requiring no more than three ingredients. |
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Author Jokha Alharthi and translator Marilyn Booth have
won the Man Booker International Prize 2019 for Celestial Bodies,
published by small Scottish indie Sandstone Press, with Alharthi the
first author from the Arabian Gulf to win the award. |
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A busy publication schedule which included new
releases from heavy hitters could do nothing to dislodge Pinch of Nom and Normal People from
the UK Official Top 50 top two spots. |
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A photo of a mysterious billboard in Leicester Square has
sparked speculation online that 4th Estate has just dropped a
major hint of imminent news on the long-awaited final novel in Hilary
Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy. |
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The Wellcome Book Prize has been temporarily suspended
following 10 years of the award. |
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Puffin has launched its first ever subscription box
service with boxes for children aged three to five-years-old. |
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Penguin Books will publish a sequel to Karen M McManus’
bestselling YA thriller One
Of Us Is Lying, entitled One of Us is Next.
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Talks are underway for a film adaptation of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Vintage). |
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Watkins Media will launch a new sales and events
partnership with the UK arm of US indie Chelsea Green Publishing next
month. |
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Hachette Children's Group will publish Poems from a Green and
Blue Planet, a uniquely inclusive anthology of poetry from
around the world, on National Poetry Day 2019. |
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Firefly Press has landed a “scary and heart-warming”
middle grade sci-fi horror by Jennifer Killick. |
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John Murray Press has signed a “searing” concise polemical
history of nationalism by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jill Lepore. |
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Michael O’Mara Books is to publish the first comprehensive
popular biography in 30 years of Margaret Beaufort by historian
Nicola Tallis. |
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Stephen Clarke is stepping down as group chief executive
at W H Smith with high street m.d. Carl Cowling to take on the role, as
the group reports strong sales in its latest report. |
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Bloomsbury’s results for the year ending 28th February
2019 show “outstanding performance” in the academic and professional
division with a 13% increase in revenue growth, as it unveils a
partnership with educational publishers Human Kinetics and Taylor and
Francis. |
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The £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize has gone to a poet,
Raymond Antrobus, for the first time, with the spoken word performer
recognised for his “exceptionally brave, kind” debut collection The Perseverance (Penned
in the Margins). |
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The £10,000 Portico Prize will return after a four-year
absence with a new partnership with the Manchester Writing School at
Manchester Metropolitan University. |
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Pat Barker’s re-telling of the Trojan wars The Silence of the Girls (Hamish
Hamilton) joins Kerry Hudson’s memoir Lowborn (Chatto) and Max Porter’s
mythic tale Lanny (Faber)
on the longlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019. |
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Canongate will publish BBC Radio 6 presenter Mark
Radcliffe’s memoir, Crossroads,
covering the death of his father and his own recent experience of
cancer. |
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Bonnier imprint Templar Publishing is launching its new
classics list with a “sumptuous” hardback edition of The Wind in the
Willows illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith. |
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Scribner UK has acquired a book by Justin Trudeau’s
foreign policy advisor Omer Aziz, following an auction. |
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Pluto Press' head of sales Simon Liebesny is leaving
after 17 years with the radical publisher. |
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Headline has bagged the “uniquely hilarious” debut novel
from Kira Jane Buxton about a “foul-mouthed” crow’s battle to save
humanity from extinction. |
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Scarborough indie Valley Press is to publish A Suitable Love Object,
a collection of poetry by Rebecca Swift, the founder of The Literary
Consultancy, who died in 2017. |
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