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UK booksellers have welcomed the news that Penguin Random
House will release the final novel in Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
series this September, saying it will sell “amazingly well”.
Danielle Culling, a bookseller at Mr B's Emporium of Reading
Delights in Bath, said The
Shepherd’s Crown will do “amazingly well and we’ll definitely
create space for it in the shop, we have dedicated display cabinets and I’m
sure we will use one of those to create a special display.”
Chloe Mavrommatis of Dulwich Books said the news is “very
exciting but also very sad."
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Trisha Ashley is to move from Avon to Transworld, with the
publisher saying it will take her to “a whole new level in popular
fiction”.
Editorial director Harriet Bourton acquired Commonwealth
rights in four new frontlist titles by Ashley, as well as three backlist
titles, from the Judith Murdoch Agency.
Transworld will begin publishing Ashley in autumn 2016, with a
Bantam Press hardback, followed by a Black Swan paperback in spring 2017.
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Kobo is set to launch a new e-reader in the UK on 1st June.
The Kobo Glo HD will offer “the highest resolution screen
available on the market and at the lowest price,” according to the
Canada-based e-reading company.
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HarperCollins has appointed Grace Cheetham as interim
publisher of Harper Non-Fiction, covering for publisher Natalie Jerome
while she is on maternity leave.
Cheetham is currently publisher for food and drink at Watkins,
where she has created her own list, Nourish. Cheetham has spent 20 years in
food and drink, health and craft publishing, having previously worked as
Element and Ebury Press. She is also a published cookery writer and blogger
in her own right.
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Neil Gaiman will pay tribute to the late Sir Terry Pratchett
at this year’s Hay Festival.
Also appearing at this year’s festival are authors including
Kazuo Ishiguro, David Mitchell, Graham Swift, Irvine Welsh, Rose Tremain,
Elif Shafak, Alexander McCall Smith, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and Marian
Keyes.
Hay Festival, which is now in its 28th year, will include more
than 700 events over the 11 days from Thursday 21st May to Sunday 31st May.
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Roger Fox, former trade sales and marketing director at
Octopus Publishing Group division Philip’s, has died.
Fox died suddenly on Thursday 2nd April at his home in Essex,
aged 66.
He joined Philip’s in 1987 from Macmillan, where he had been a sales
representative for nearly 20 years.
Fox, who was retired, played a “crucial role in developing
Philip’s road and street atlas business into a market leader”.
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German e-reading company txtr will be adopted as the e-book
platform for German-based consumer electronics retailer
Media-Saturn-Holding (MSH).
The Bookseller reported that Berlin-based txtr filed for insolvency
proceedings in January, with a provisional administrator Olswang
Restructuring Solutions appointed to oversee a sale.
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has
launched a website containing the world's largest collection of video
content in its fields.
The IET.tv platform includes over 6,500 multidisciplinary
videos, with 750 new ones to be added each year. The improved platform
allows users to manipulate, share and download videos, and find related
content through context-sensitive links. It also offers webinar and webcast
features.
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Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
(Picador) is among the six books shortlisted for this year’s Arthur C
Clarke award for best science fiction novel.
Mandel’s much hyped post-apocalyptic title is
shortlisted alongside two Orbit books, M R Carey’s The Girl With all the Gifts
and Claire North’s The
First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
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Speak Up For Libraries has launched a manifesto ahead of the
general election, calling on library users to make public libraries a
central issue.
The umbrella organisation for library campaigners is asking
candidates for election to sign up to a pledge when running for their seat,
promising to "give libraries a long-term future, with a vision
for their future development and clear standards of service."
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Two titles published by Catnip are shortlisted for this year’s
Little Rebels Children’s Book Award, announced today (7th April) by
organiser Letterbox Library.
Catnip’s
Trouble on Cable Street by Joan Lingard, set in London during
the rise of Mosley’s Blackshirts, and Girl
With a White Dog by Anne Booth, which explores discrimination,
are both shortlisted for the prize, which is for books for children aged
0-12 that celebrate or promote social justice.
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Century has acquired the first book by London street artist
Stik.
Stik came to notoriety as an underground street artist who
painted life-size stick figures during the night around London’s East End.
His artwork Big Mother is the tallest piece of street art in
the UK, covering the façade of a block of soon-to-be-demolished council
flats in Acton, London.
During periods of homelessness Stik regularly worked as an
artist's life model at the Royal Academy of Art and Central Saint Martin's,
where he gained an “accidental education in fine art”.
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