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Latest headlines for
the book industry
Out now—The Bookseller Buyer’s Guides Autumn 2020. Click here to read the issues.
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Independent publishers have voiced their concerns about
the “unstoppable juggernaut" of titles anticipated in
September and the need to recuperate earnings after lockdown.
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The Bookseller has been acquired by the
publisher of theatre magazine the Stage,
in a move that will see the 162-year-old book trade newspaper join
forces with the 140-year-old brand.
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Simon & Schuster's global revenues for the
first half of 2020 dipped 3%, down from $382m
to $370m, according to parent firm ViacomCBS's latest
results. Earnings however rose to $57m, up 6%
from $54m.
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Faber has pre-empted Ashley Hickson-Lovence's second
novel, due for publication in spring 2022.
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Head of Zeus has won a three-way auction for the
“sparkling” debut novel by Aliya Ali-Afzal.
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The Society of Authors (SoA) had awarded grants totalling
£185,000 to writers including Derek Owusu and John Mapanje for their
works in progress.
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HQ has landed the debut adult novel from Jesse Q
Sutanto, Dial A
For Aunties, in a two-book deal.
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Bernardine Evaristo, Lee Child and Ian McEwan will head
the bill for the digital UEA Live festival, marking 50 years of the
University of East Anglia's renowned creative writing course.
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Ted Hughes Award winner Jay Bernard and Indonesian
poet Khairani Barokka have been named associate artists at the National
Centre for Writing (NCW).
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HarperCollins has signed a history of Britain by Boris
Starling with David Bradbury, told through figures from the Office for
National Statistics.
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Bonnier Books UK is to publish a "lockdown fever,
Zoom etiquette and social media meltdown" social commentary
by Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.
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Penguin has announced a series of virtual, live events
featuring guests including Zadie Smith, Yotam Ottolenghi, Caitlin Moran
and Jeremiah Emmanuel.
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W H Smith has announced plans for a major restructure
which could see around 1,500 roles made redundant across the business.
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Waterstones has announced the permanent closure of its
bookshop in the Centre MK Shopping Centre, Milton Keynes, over
“excessive” rent demanded from its landlord.
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Independent publisher Canelo is launching a new crime
fiction imprint, Canelo Crime, this September, and has promoted Louise
Cullen as publishing director to oversee the list.
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Layla Saad, Dorothy Koomson, Kate Mosse, Laura Bates
and Kerry Hudson are among 40 writers contributing
to a "uniquely empowering" feminist charity book
collection, spearheaded by the Feminist Book Society, in
collaboration with not-for-profit publishers And Other Stories in
the UK and The Feminist Press in the US.
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The 2020 Crime Writer's Association Dagger Awards
shortlist has been announced, with Mick Herron's Joe Country (John
Murray), Claire Askew's What
You Pay For (Hodder & Stoughton) and Abir
Mukherjee's Death in
the East (Harvill Secker) in contention for the
CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year.
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Louise Gornall, author
of Under Rose-Tainted Skies (Chicken House), has
died, it was announced today (5th August).
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Hodder & Stoughton is publishing a book
from songwriter, musician, and country legend Dolly Parton,
exploring her life and career through 175 of her best-loved songs.
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Pan Macmillan has signed an epic historical novel from
Antonio Iturbe, author of bestseller The Librarian of Auschwitz (Ebury).
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Michael Rosen and Sir Quentin Blake have teamed up
for a collection of poems about migration and displacement, to be
published by Walker Books.
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Dead Ink Books and Bloomsbury are publishing Test Signal, a
"ground-breaking" anthology of the best contemporary Northern
writing.
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Derren Brown is condensing the lessons from his
bestseller Happy to handbook size in A Little Happier: Notes for
Reassurance with Transworld this October.
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Margaret Atwood is to narrate the audiobook her
new poetry collection, Dearly,
which publishes simultaneously with the print edition on 10th
November.
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The Bookseller Group
Bookseller Media Ltd | Floor 10 | Westminster Tower | 3 Albert Embankment |
LONDON | SE1 7SP
Switchboard: 0203 358 0360
Subscriptions: 01371 851879
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The Book Trade Charity has handed out £112,000 in hardship
grants from funds raised by the trade, but it expects applicants to
keep coming forward until the end of the year as the effects of
Covid-19 are felt.
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Jojo Moyes' The
Giver of Stars (Penguin) has soared into the UK Official
Top 50 number one spot, selling 25,331 copies through Nielsen
BookScan's TCM in its first full week on the shelves.
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The Borough Press has triumphed in a multi-publisher
auction for journalist Christina Sweeney-Baird's debut novel The End of Men in
a “significant” six-figure deal.
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Independent publisher Profile Books,
including imprints Serpent’s Tail, Viper Books and Souvenir Press, has
joined the global Facebook advertising boycott led by by the
advocacy group Stop Hate for Profit, withdrawing all Facebook
and Instagram advertising with immediate effect.
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The Publishers Association has said it "looks forward
to engaging" with a new expert advisory panel set up to
investigate the pandemic's impact on arts and culture, although
it has failed to include a representative from the industry.
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Stephen Hawking's Brief
Answers to the Big Questions (John Murray) has rocketed to
the top of the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart, as Val
McDermid's A Place of
Execution (HarperCollins) cleaved into the Most-Sold:
Fiction number one.
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Swift Press, the newly founded publisher of Mark
Richards and Diana Broccardo, is gearing up for its autumn
launch with The
Upswing by Robert Putnam.
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Graham Norton, Joanna Trollope and Nadiya Hussain are
among the speakers joining Henley Literary Festival's online event this
autumn.
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More than 2,500 people have signed an open letter
expressing concern about “brutal” plans to make up to 400 people
redundant at the Southbank Centre.
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Netflix has won an auction for screen rights to Lost Dog: A Love Story by
journalist Kate Spicer (Ebury).
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Bloomsbury Sigma has acquired a book by His Holiness
the Dalai Lama on climate change to publish this November.
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Oryx, the international
journal of conservation published by Cambridge University Press,
is to become Open Access from January next year.
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The Bookseller Group
Bookseller Media Ltd | Floor 10 | Westminster Tower | 3 Albert Embankment |
LONDON | SE1 7SP
Switchboard: 0203 358 0360
Subscriptions: 01371 851879
Latest headlines for
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A number of independent bookshops are reporting that
a rise in UK staycations is helping to counter the
early damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Bonnier Books UK is launching a new music
publishing list, with Pete Selby joining as publishing director.
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Stephen King is publishing a new crime novel, Later, with Titan
Books imprint Hard Case Crime in March 2021.
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Doubleday has acquired The Purpose of Power: How to Build Movements
for the 21st Century by Alicia Garza, the
principal at the Black Futures Lab and the Black to the Future Action
Fund, and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter
Global Network.
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Piatkus has acquired You Got This by Louise
Redknapp, an "empowering and uplifting guide to embracing life and
whatever it throws at you", to publish in March next year.
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Three academics have claimed Edinburgh University Press
tried to censor their journal article on gender self-identification in
an “exceptional breach of normal practice” over transphobia fears.
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Penguin is to relaunch its non-fiction Great Ideas series
after a decade's hiatus, with a new selection of
20 pocket-sized titles, featuring bespoke cover designs.
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Brianna Labuskes' Her
Final Words (Thomas & Mercer) has ended the three-week
run of Ian Rankin's In
a House of Lies (Orion) at the top of the Bookstat chart,
as Kindle Unlimited titles flock into the top 10.
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Viking has signed an “epic” biography of Malcolm X by Les
Payne and Tamara Payne, drawing on three decades of author interviews
to rewrite much of the known narrative.
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Audible has landed an exploration of secrecy in modern
society by Kit Caless, Influx Press co-founder and son of a security
forces officer
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Bookouture's non-fiction imprint Thread is publishing a
"hilarious and heartfelt" motherhood survival guide by
journalist Zeena Moolla.
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Publisher and lifestyle brand Own It! is to release Sam
Conniff's How to Be
More Pirate, a follow-up to his debut with Penguin.
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The Bookseller Group
Bookseller Media Ltd | Floor 10 | Westminster Tower | 3 Albert Embankment |
LONDON | SE1 7SP
Switchboard: 0203 358 0360
Subscriptions: 01371 851879
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