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The competition has drastically increased for the autumn
bookselling season's first big release date, with over 150
extra titles piling into the 3rd September slot. |
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Finding Freedom (HQ), the new book
about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, has hit number one on Amazon
based on pre-orders alone following a weekend of headlines about its
contents. |
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In a two-book deal, Pan Macmillan has signed Lola Jaye's
first historical novel, The
Attic Child, inspired by a true story she discovered
at a National Portrait Gallery exhibition. |
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Transworld has acquired a new book by former Liverpool FC
defender and Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher, The Greatest Games. |
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The Booksellers Association is to take on the production
of Booktime
magazine, formerly published by Bertrams, and will publish an autumn
edition in October. |
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Transworld has pre-empted a new autobiography by Alan
Brazil, former footballer and broadcaster. |
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More than 150 staff at DK took part in the
publisher’s annual charity walk this year, raising money
for The Black Curriculum, a social enterprise founded to address the
lack of black British history in the UK curriculum. |
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Orion Spring is publishing a new book
from Fearne Cotton in January 2021, called Speak Your Truth. |
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Alice Oswald, Gillian Clarke, Karen McCarthy Woolf and
Pascale Petit are among the poets longlisted for the inaugural Laurel
Prize. |
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Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor CBE will narrate the audiobook of Piranesi by Susanna
Clarke. |
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The Internet Archive's founder has called on the
publishers suing his organisation to drop their “needless” copyright
infringement lawsuit and “work together” with him instead. |
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Virago Press is relaunching its
podcast as "Ourshelves" under a new
format and with a new host, while guests lined
up include Margaret Atwood and Linda Grant. |
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Pearson has reported revenue fell 17% in the first half of
2020 as the result of “significant disruption” caused by Covid-19.
However, the company has said “things are improving”, citing
better sales in June. |
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Scholastic has reported a 10% revenue drop for the fiscal
year to end May 2020, to $1.49bn, with an overall
loss of $88.5m, after Covid-19 battered its fourth quarter. |
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A report by consultancy Maverick Publishing Specialists
says academic presses will be hit hard by falls in university revenue,
while trade firms also face challenges in moving to a more agile,
digital business model. |
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Francesca Main has acquired a "timely" and
"moving" debut for her new imprint at Orion, To Fill a Yellow House by British-Ghanaian
author Sussie Anie, plus a second novel, in a six-figure
pre-empt conducted in 48 hours. |
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Arts Council England's literature director Sarah Crown has
highlighted the very difficult situation still faced by many indie
publishers, despite the ACE Emergency Fund grants awarded this
spring, and warned of the "jeopardy" a second lockdown
could bring. |
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Orion has announced a paid and flexible work
experience scheme, open to applicants across the UK for remote
month-long placements. The publisher said the initiative is part
of its "dedication to broadening access to and demystifying
the publishing industry". |
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Adrian McKinty has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime
Novel of the Year Prize for The
Chain (Orion), part of a “life changing” turnaround
after he gave up writing and became an Uber driver to make ends meet. |
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Sir Cliff Richard is marking his 80th birthday and 60
years in music with a “definitive” autobiography for Ebury Press, to be
released alongside a new music project. |
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Calls by a select committee for freelancer support and
creation of a “Creators Council” to help the cultural sector
rebound from the coronavirus crisis have been welcomed by the Authors'
Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). |
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Sir Elton John's ex-wife is claiming £3m in damages,
saying he broke the terms of their divorce deal by writing about their
marriage in bestselling autobiography Me (Pan Macmillan). |
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Chatto & Windus has signed a deal with Ordinary People author
Diana Evans for a new novel and her first essay collection. |
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Hodder & Stoughton will publish The Little Wartime Library
by Kate Thompson, based on a real-life underground library at
Bethnal Green during the Second World War. |
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RELX, parent of Reed Exhibitions and Elsevier, recorded a
10% revenue drop in the six months to end June 2020, to £3,501m (from
£3,888m), with adjusted operating profit falling 24% to £939m
(£1,240m). |
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Oxford University Press recorded turnover of £844.9m in
the 12 months to end March 2020, marking growth of 0.5% on the previous
year's figure (£840.5m), 0.3% like-for-like at constant currency. |
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A number of independent publishers spoken to by The Bookseller have
reported an uplift in print sales this year, despite the difficulties
of lockdown. However, others have said the pandemic has taken its toll
on sales, while bulk returns from Bertrams post-administration have
complicated the picture. |
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European book sales have picked up since shops reopened
but are mostly well below pre-coronavirus levels, according to a report
by the Federation of European Publishers. |
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Michael Joseph has acquired The Butterfly Waltz and
one other title by debut author Julie Owen Moylan at auction. |
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HarperNorth, the new Manchester-based division of
HarperCollins, has signed Melissa Reddy's account of Liverpool FC's
2020 Premiership title win as its first acquisition. |
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Picador has snapped up a new collection of poetry from
2019 Rathbones Folio Prize winner Raymond Antrobus in a multi-publisher
auction. |
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Simon & Schuster is to publish A Manual for Being Human by
clinical psychologist Dr Sophie Mort, scooped in a seven-way
auction. |
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Lemn Sissay, Lisa Taddeo and Paul Mendez are among
the six-strong shortlist for this year's Gordon Burn Prize. |
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Faber is to publish a biography of the blues singer Bessie
Smith, by Scotland's national poet laureate Jackie Kay. |
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Orion Spring has acquired a debut non-fiction book from
television presenter and broadcaster Laura Whitmore: No One Can Change Your Life
Except For You. |
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Ian Rankin’s In
a House of Lies (Orion) has taken out a mortgage in
the Bookstat e-book chart number one spot, reigning for a second week
running. |
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The Publishing Association has released its
latest Yearbook statistics, showing growth in both the
industry's print and digital revenues, making 2019 in its
estimation “the biggest year ever for UK publishing”. |
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Nielsen Book has said it is restating Mark Dawson's sales
figures, after the author admitted to making a bulk purchase of his own
book The
Cleaner to secure his status as a "top 10
bestseller". |
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David Walliams and Tony Ross' The World's Worst Parents (HarperCollins)
has topped the UK Official Top 50 for a third week running, selling
32,013 copies. |
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The annual Booksellers Association Conference and Gardners
Trade Show is to be postponed until spring 2021. |
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The cover for J K Rowling's The Ickabog has
been revealed, with the fairytale to be published on 10th November by
Hachette Children's Group. |
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Puffin has revealed it has chosen Adam Larkum to
be the illustrator of Captain Tom’s forthcoming picture book
for young readers. |
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Quercus is publishing Politically Homeless by political
satirist Matt Forde this October. |
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Wimbledon BookFest is running a live, physical event in
September, featuring a keynote speech from Matthew Syed. |
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Little, Brown has acquired "an unflinching
insider’s account of medicine in the time of
coronavirus" from palliative care doctor Dr Rachel
Clarke. |
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Mary L Trump's Too
Much and Never Enough (S&S) has done more than
enough to reach the top of the Amazon Charts, zipping straight to the
top of the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart, as Ian Rankin's In a House of Lies (Orion)
holds the Most-Sold: Fiction top spot. |
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Jonathan Cape has scooped an “exceptional” debut novel
from journalist and former Waterstones bookseller Jo Hamya. |
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Ebury Press has landed a memoir by actor, screenwriter and
former undercover police officer Liam Thomas. |
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