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Latest headlines for
the book industry
3-for-2 tickets for this year's Children's Conference are now available,
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Waterstones owner Elliott Advisors has completed its $683m
(£537m) acquisition of US book giant Barnes & Noble following
approval by the majority of shareholders. |
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Penguin Random House is to publish Wattpad Books’ launch
list into the UK this autumn. |
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HQ has triumphed in a four-way auction for an
"inspiring and deeply moving" novel by Josie Lloyd,
inspired by her own experience, about a woman reclaiming her
life after a breast cancer diagnosis. |
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Headline Home has scooped the debut fitness book by double
Olympic champion gymnast Max Whitlock. |
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After making its debut a week ago in second place, L J
Ross' Penshaw has
now leapfrogged Rachel Abbott's And
So It Begins (Wildfire) to claim the Amazon Charts
Most-Sold Fiction number one. |
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Hodder & Stoughton has signed ex-Man Utd and Newcastle
striker Andrew Cole’s “definitive” autobiography. |
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Hachette UK, Pan Mac and PRH are supporting a free careers
fair for those aged 16 to 25 who may not have considered entering
publishing before. |
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Audible Originals has added Lydia Shamah and Matthew
Campbell to its commissioning team. |
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Usborne fiction editorial director Rebecca Hill, author
Candice Carty-Williams and Claire Malcolm, chief executive of New
Writing North, have all been nominated for the h100 Awards, run by
Covent Garden private members’ club, h Club. |
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Faber is launching a podcast series to accompany comedian
Sara Pascoe’s new book Sex
Power Money. |
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The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has created a new
category for its Dagger awards, Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the
Year. |
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Jake Hope has been appointed as the new chair of the CILIP
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway (CKG) Awards Working Party. |
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Latest headlines for
the book industry
3F2 tickets for this year's Children's Conference are now available, book here
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Industry figures are braced for the possibilty of a
no-deal Brexit as Boris Johnson marks the end of his first week in
office. |
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Hachette has announced seven people are leaving its HR
department to be replaced by new appointments, mainly from outside the
publishing world, in a major shake-up. |
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Yellow Jersey editorial director Tim Broughton is being
made redundant after three years in the role, with the specialist
sports imprint continuing in a reduced capacity “following a review of
the sports book market”. |
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Pan Macmillan has scooped NSA whistleblower Edward
Snowden’s "incredible" memoir as part of a global deal by
Macmillan Publishers. |
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Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 10% tariff on an
extra $300bn of Chinese goods, including books. |
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Adam Kay's This
is Going to Hurt (Picador) is now dizzingly close to a
Weekly E-Book Ranking chart record no-one could have predicted, as it
claims its 18th weekly number one. |
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Women dominate the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award this year,
making up five of the six-strong shortlist, which also features three
debuts. |
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Biteback Publishing has bagged a book by its founder and
broadcaster Iain Dale with radio producer Jakob Szweda, containing some
of Boris Johnson’s most memorable quotes and gaffes. |
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Circe (Bloomsbury) by Madeline Miller
is to be made into an HBO drama series. |
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Former bookseller Sheila O’Reilly is helping to launch a
new literary festival, 'Dingle Lit', on the Dingle Peninsula this
November. |
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Marcel Berlins, crime fiction reviewer at the Times, has died,
aged 77. |
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The National Creative Writing Industry Day returns for the
fifth year in November, with author Sharlene Teo as the keynote
speaker. |
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Book now for the
The Bookseller Children's Conference 2019, 23rd September...
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This year at
the Children’s Conference we have a created a space where the audience can
get involved in quizzing the speakers about the issues facing the book
industry today. Our second speaker room will host a mixture of panel
discussions and short talks, followed by audience Q+As - hopefully the
fantastic line-up will entice as many of you as possible to come and take
part.
Some of our speakers in this room are
from outside the London bubble and I am thrilled that Marc Lambert, c.e.o. of Scottish Book Trust, and Penny Thomas, co-founder of
Welsh publisher Firefly Press, will discuss the
challenges and opportunities involved in working in children’s books
outside the capital.
And Northern powerhouse Debbie Jane Williams, who runs the
student-led publishing house UCLan, is coming along. Do you think the book
industry is doing enough to recruit the next generation of publishers? What
can we do to broaden outreach? Debbie will be giving a masterclass on this
subject with a colleague and former student.
Finally, as everyone knows, getting
media coverage is a nightmare when it comes to children’s books. If you
want to know more about how you can make this happen come along and quiz
our panel of Nicolette Jones, Imogen Russell Williams and Georgina Atwell.
If you've missed out on Early Bird, you can
still save with the 3
for 2 offer on Subscriber and Non-Subscriber tickets!
See you
then,
Charlotte
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Marc Lambert
CEO
Scottish Book Trust
Marc Lambert has worked for
Waterstones as a main fiction buyer, and for Penguin Books in Italy and
the UK as a salesman. After four years of writing about
contemporary art at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, he joined The
Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2000 as Assistant Director. In
2002 he was appointed CEO of Scottish Book Trust, where he has grown
the Trust from a small organisation of three people into a national
charity with 60 staff, offering a range of development programmes that
span the early years to old age.
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Penny Thomas
Co-Founder
Firefly Press
Penny Thomas is the co-founder and
publisher of Wales-based Firefly Press, which was set up in 2013
to publish fiction for 5 to 19-year-olds. Penny has also worked as
fiction editor for Seren literary publishers, among others, and is a
trained journalist, having worked in the regional press for 14
years.
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Debbie Williams
Head
of Publishing
UCLan
Debbie Williams has over twenty years’
experience in publishing. She started her career as children’s
buyer at Waterstones Head Office through the Harry Potter era.
Passionate about training the next generation of publishers Debbie set
up a highly-practical Masters in Publishing at the University of
Central Lancashire. The students help to run a trade, independent
publisher as part of their course, UCLan Publishing, which publishes
bestselling authors. This year, UCLan Publishing won the Independent
Publisher of the Year – Newcomer and even had a Waterstones number one.
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Latest headlines for
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Catch up on last week's Ireland Country Focus in full here
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Margaret Atwood is longlisted for this year's £50,000
Booker Prize for her "terrifying and
exhilarating" sequel The
Testaments (Chatto & Windus) alongside fellow
former winner Salman Rushdie, in the first year the prize has been
sponsored by charitable foundation Crankstart. |
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Amazon has begun releasing weekly UK book charts showing
fiction and non-fiction bestsellers based on sales and
reads, representing the first time print and digital sales
have been recorded together. |
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David Walliams’ The
World’s Worst Teachers (HarperCollins) has chalked up
a fourth consecutive week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot,
selling 36,912 copies for £268,604. |
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Hodder and Stoughton has shelved plans to publish Boris
Johnson’s long-delayed book on Shakespeare “for the foreseeable future”
after he was announced as the next Prime Minister. |
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Times fashion editor Harriet Walker’s
debut novel The
New Girl has been optioned for a film by Simon Friend
Entertainment. |
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Shareholders have filed two lawsuits against Barnes &
Noble in a legal row over the sale as the book retailer insists the
complaints "lack merit". |
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Welbeck Publishing Group has announced net sales were up
for 2018 by 29% at Mortimer Books, the company it acquired when it took
on Carlton this year. |
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Adam Gnuse’s “haunting” gothic debut, Girl in the Walls,
has gone to 4th Estate in a six-figure deal. |
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Orbit has scooped a worldwide deal for a fantasy epic
trilogy inspired by Norse mythology from John Gwynne. |
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Crime writer A L Gaylin has recorded a fictional podcast
episode in addition to the audio version of her new book. |
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Oneworld has picked up a hard-hitting “rescue guide for
democracy” from A C Grayling. |
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Atom, an imprint of Little, Brown, has acquired a YA novel
about nostalgia and grief by David Owen. |
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The Booksellers Association is calling on the trade to
reduce its environmental impact and take the lead in sustainability and
eco-friendly initiatives as it reveals its green manifesto. |
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Penguin Random House has revealed the progress it has made
under its Inclusion Pledge in a bid to reflect UK society in its
workforce by 2025 with an increase in the number of BAME new
starters. |
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Quercus will publish the spoof teenage diary of
"thatch-headed wasteman" Boris Johnson, from comedy
writer Lucien Young. |
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Hodder & Stoughton has bagged a new book from Gordon
Ramsay called Quick
& Delicious, featuring 100 “knockout” recipes ready in
30 minutes or less. |
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Faber will publish a special London Liberty edition of
Anna Burns’ Man Booker Prize-winning Milkman in September, as part of
its partnership with the historic department store, along with a new
audio edition read by the author herself. |
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Scribe has snapped up Mr B's bookseller Jessica Gaitán
Johannesson's debut novel in a two-book deal. |
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Penguin Random House US has finalised the deal to buy the
US book-publishing assets of F+W Books. |
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Hachette has paid tribute to its “incredibly charming and
generous” international sales executive Melvyn Munyua, who has died in
a drowning accident. |
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Helen Monks Takhar’s debut thriller about a millennial
‘snowflake’ intern pitted against an older editor, Precious You (HQ),
is to be turned into a TV show. |
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Icon has signed up an “inspiring handbook for future
rebels and revolutionaries”, Five
Rules For Rebellion, by Women’s Equality Party founding
leader Sophie Walker. |
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The History Press has scooped an
"enthralling" book by Daniel Smith on how establishment
forces reportedly tried to suppress a story about Lord Boothby and
Ronnie Kray’s alleged interest in teenage boys. |
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Pearson has rolled out a new fully digital test for
Egypt’s schools as part of a project helping to reform the country’s
exam system. |
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