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Penguin Random House's parent company Bertelsmann has
reported its highest first half for 12 years with €8.6bn group
revenues, with PRH’s successful performance attributed to “strong
bestsellers, high growth rates in audio formats, and acquisitions”.
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Retailers are gearing up for the biggest publishing event
of the year with plans for midnight openings, competitions and special
book clubs for the release of Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.
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HarperCollins’ Tom Killingbeck is joining Viking as
editorial director as Jack Ramm leaves the PRH imprint to set up an
editorial services company.
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Libraries Connected has secured £342,000 in funding
from Arts Council England to develop a new training programme
supporting potential female and BAME leaders.
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Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry has written a
follow-up to his Costa-winning Days
Without End, dubbed "brave and beautiful" by
publisher Faber.
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BHP Comics founder Sha Nazir will launch the UK's first
literary agency dedicated to graphic novels today.
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Nicola Sturgeon has said making publishing more
diverse is "essential" - both to better reflect society and
to remain economically successful.
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Simon & Schuster Children’s UK has acquired a
dog-themed picture book from Richard Jones, his first as both author
and illustrator.
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Canongate has acquired a noir thriller by Buenos
Aires-based janitor and author K Ferrari.
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Headline Home has scooped a “call to action” from
journalist Lauren Bravo offering advice on how to ditch fast fashion in
favour of repairing, recycling and giving a new lease of life to your
clothes while staying stylish.
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Children’s author Enid Blyton was rejected from
featuring on a commemorative 50p coin because the Royal
Mint's advisory committee deemed her “racist, sexist, homophobe and not
a very well-regarded writer”, new documents have revealed.
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Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree will publish a “heartfelt”
book about female incontinence by writer Luce Brett entitled PMSL:
Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo
to Tell the Tale.
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Jamie Oliver’s Veg (Michael
Joseph) has leapt straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot,
selling 24,261 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer
Market. |
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W H Smith has been boosted by a "strong
performance" of its travel stores as the retailer says it expects
full year results to be in line with expectations, ahead of
c.e.o. Stephen Clarke's departure. |
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Headline has snapped up rights to a new book by England
cricketer Ben Stokes. |
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Faber has announced its third set of
Faber Stories series to be published in October, featuring
the likes of Man Booker winner Anna Burns and critically acclaimed US
novelist Barbara Kingsolver. |
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The Authors Guild is supporting the Association of
American Publishers (AAP) as the organisation sues Amazon’s audiobook
company Audible over a new speech-to-text feature. |
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James O'Brien's How
to Be Right (Virgin) has claimed the Amazon Charts
Most Sold: Non-Fiction number one, ending the five-week run of Adam
Kay's This is
Going to Hurt (Picador). |
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A Big Green Bookshop crowdfunder to get copy of
climate activist Greta Thunberg's book into schools across the UK has
raised more than £11,000 in a month, with Penguin Random House matching
copies raised and creating an accompanying classroom pack. |
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A new independent bookshop will open its doors to
customers in Bourne, Lincolnshire this weekend. |
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Library campaigners in Essex are gearing up for a county
wide day of action next month, as more than 1,600 people sign a
petition against plans for volunteers to run some facilities. |
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Biteback will publish a biography of John Bercow, Speaker
of the House of Commons, next year. |
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Klaus Flugge Prize winner Kate Milner's new picture book
has been snapped up by indie Barrington Stoke. |
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Alastair Chisholm, Morag Hood and Meg McLaren have made
the 2020 Bookbug Picture Book Prize shortlist. |
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The Bookseller Group
Bookseller Media Limited | Floor 10 | Westminster Tower | 3 Albert Embankment
| LONDON | SE1 7SP
Switchboard: 0203 358 0360
Subscriptions: 01371 851879
Latest headlines for
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Major US publishers have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's
audiobook company Audible in a row over a new speech-to-text feature
which they say is a violation of copyright law. |
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UK publishers at the Beijing International Book Fair last
week saw typically buoyant rights trading, as the country's book
market boom continues in 2019, with double-digit growth at the
half-year stage. |
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Bestselling bloggers-turned-cookbook authors Kay
Featherstone and Kate Allinson have revealed details for their second
cookbook, Pinch
of Nom: Everyday Light for Bluebird, featuring recipes
which all consist of 400 calories or less. |
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Delegates at this year’s FutureBook Conference will have
the chance to receive a full day of training into coding, as part of
the event. |
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Ann Cleeves' latest book The Long Call (Pan
Macmillan) has been snapped up for a television series by
Silverprint Pictures, |
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Century will publish a new novel by World War Z author
Max Brooks in Spring 2020. |
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The Royal Society Science Book Prize shortlist for 2019
has been revealed with nominations for indies Icon, Bloomsbury and
Atlantic. |
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The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses will
run for another two years after being granted Arts Council funding for
the next two years. |
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Skincare expert Hanna Sillitoe's latest book will be
published by Octopus imprint Kyle Books. |
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Police are investigating after burglars broke into
London's Housmans Bookshop and stole the store's cash drawer and
charity box last week. |
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Pan Macmillan has snapped up rights to two new major
business books, with plans to publish in 2021. |
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Orion scooped two prizes at The Book Marketing
Society’s latest seasonal awards, with wins for Penguin Random House
and Pan Macmillan too. |
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Latest headlines for
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Orion Spring will publish a book about the use of
medical cannabis as a wellness aid by British GP Dani Gordon following
a seven-way bidding war. |
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Adam Kay has done it—This
is Going to Hurt (Picador) is officially the
longest-running title in the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one spot. |
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The books market in China, as measured by data
company OpenBook, rose by 10.8% year-on-year in the first half of 2019,
according to statistics presented at the Beijing International Book
Fair (BIBF) this week. |
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Trapeze will publish a "groundbreaking and
original" investigation into Donald Trump revealing new
accusations of sexual misconduct later this year. |
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Nicholas Sparks has been cleared in a defamation lawsuit
from the former headmaster of a private school The Notebook author
co-founded. |
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Leading Chinese children's writer Cao Wenxuan, winner of
the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award, is to publish a new book
with Walker in January 2020. |
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Nicola Sturgeon has taken to the stage at Edinburgh Books
Festival and shared her theory on politicians and literature. |
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Actor Hayley Atwell will narrate the audiobook for The Confession by
Jessie Burton, as Picador reveals plans for the launch campaign. |
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Puffin will publish a science book combining
information from Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy’s fiction series George’s Secret Key to the
Universe, together with new content for 2020. |
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Transworld will publish stand-up comedian Russell Kane's
"hilarious and searingly honest" memoir later this
year. |
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YA-themed books will feature on this year's suggested
reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Day on 3rd October. |
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Actor Matthew Baynton will narrate the audiobook of 52 Times Britain Was A Bellend by
James Felton. |
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The Bookseller Group
Bookseller Media Limited | Floor 10 | Westminster Tower | 3 Albert Embankment
| LONDON | SE1 7SP
Switchboard: 0203 358 0360
Subscriptions: 01371 851879
Latest headlines for
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Springer Nature and Projekt DEAL, which represents nearly
700 academic institutions in Germany, have reached an understanding on
the world's largest transformative Open Access agreement. |
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David Cameron will give a series of television and radio
interviews to mark the publication of his autobiography, For the Record (William
Collins), including John Humphrys' final
"big" interview for the "Today" show next
month. |
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London indie Flame Tree Publishing has entered a
"pioneering" co-publishing deal with Jiangsu Phoenix Literary
and Art Publishing, a division of the leading Chinese publisher Phoenix
Publishing and Media Group (PPMG). |
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Taron Egerton will narrate the audiobook edition of Elton
John's forthcoming autobiography, Me. |
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Tributes have been paid to Richard Booth, after the
self-styled King of Hay died aged 80. |
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Headline will publish a special edition of Neil Gaiman’s
iconic bestseller The
Ocean at the End of the Lane later this year. |
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Marc Randolph, co-founder and first c.e.o. of
Netflix, will arrive in London next month to mark the publication of his
book telling the inside story of the business. |
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Oxford University Press has snapped up rights to QI
assistant producer Anne Miller's debut children's series, with
illustrations by Becka Moor. |
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The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) is to use
new 5G technology to project a lifelike 3D image of an author into the
Fair this weekend for a remotely conducted author event.
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Titan Books will publish Joan He’s YA debut, a
Chinese-inspired fantasy novel about a princess whose father is
murdered. |
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Actor Russell Tovey will read the audiobook for terminally
ill playwright Joe Hammond’s forthcoming memoir, A Short History of Falling:
Everything I’ve Observed About Love Whilst Dying. |
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Awesome Media & Entertainment and Two Rivers Media,
have teamed up to adapt Susan Hill’s The Small Hand: A Ghost Story (Profile),
about an antique book dealer, for Channel 5 in the first
adaptation of a book by the author for seven years. |
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