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Lee Child’s Blue
Moon (Bantam) has illuminated the charts, beaming
straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one with 56,700 copies sold
in its first week on sale. |
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People from BME backgrounds working within the children’s
literature sector have been frustrated by racism and microaggressions,
unconscious bias, and inequality of access, according to a new
report by Arts Council England. |
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Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom (Bluebird)
has sold one million copies to date, with last week's 7,067 copies sold
pushing it into seven figures through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. |
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The 2020 Women’s Prize’s judging panel has been unveiled,
featuring writer and activist Scarlett Curtis, internationally
bestselling author Paula Hawkins and businesswoman and philanthropist
Martha Lane Fox among others. |
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Novels by authors including Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
and Salman Rushdie have been recognised by the BBC in a new list of
novels that have shaped the world. |
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Stormzy’s Penguin Random House imprint #Merky Books has
teamed up with Beats by Dre to open the #Merky Books pop-up shop in
London. |
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CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals, is leading a campaign calling for politicians to make
local libraries a big election issue. |
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Lee Child's Blue
Moon (Transworld) has scored a double, topping both the
Amazon Charts' Fiction rankings. |
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Welbeck Fiction has scooped a “superb” novel about royal
governess Marion Crawford by Wendy Holden in a two-book, six-figure
deal. |
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Little, Brown has confirmed it is pushing ahead with
publication of A
Warning, the new tell-all about Donald Trump's
administration by an anonymous senior official, despite the US
Department of Justice warning Hachette that the author may be violating
"one or more" NDAs. |
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Former Orion publicist Poppy Stimpson will join Pushkin
Press as publicity director as long-time Pushkin publicist Tabitha
Pelly heads to Doubleday later this month. |
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Scholastic’s publisher for fiction and picture books, Sam
Smith, is leaving the firm to join Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB). |
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