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» Good news at WHS
W H Smith has
announced that it has positive expectations for its full-year
results, due next week on 31st August, saying that its books sales have
improved after a "positive publishing schedule". Its Travel
arm is also "on track". Erotica has been key, with the
retailer adding that it had benefited from strong sales of E L James' Fifty
Shades of Grey (Arrow) and given front-of-store and promotional
space to Penguin's Bared to You by Sylvia Day.
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» Atta boy
Saqi imprint The Westbourne Press is to publish
a new collection by poet Dean Atta. His poem, "I Am Nobody's
Nigger", was inspired by the conviction for Stephen Lawrence's
murder this year, and his performance of it has had 40,000 downloads on
YouTube, according to the publisher.
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» 100 shades of Persephone
Independent publisher Persephone is to publish its 99th and 100th titles
this autumn, and is celebrating
the event with a commemorative jug and bowl and a tour in a 1957
Morris Traveller. The new books in its grey livery will be Patience
by John Coates and The Persephone Book of Short Stories.
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Katie Allen is The
Bookseller's web editor
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