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Abacus buys Jonasson's '100-Year-Old Man…' Little, Brown imprint Abacus has acquired UK rights to Jonas Jonasson’s The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared. Independent Hesperus was ordered to stop selling or distributing the title in April after a High Court hearing brought by Hachette Book Group US, which owns world English language rights.

Cornerstone plans Thursday 'stunt' for 'Grey' Cornerstone will put on a launch day “stunt” to mark the release of E L James’ Grey (Arrow) this week. Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as told by Christian will be published this Thursday 18th June– the same day as the fictional Christian Grey’s birthday.

Alison Morrison murder trial begins Alison Morrison, a former children's publisher and chair of Book Trust’s board of trustees, died in a ferocious attack by her neighbour after a dispute over noise from her son's skateboard, the Old Bailey has heard. Neighbour Trevor Gibbon is on trial for the murder of Morrison, who was killed on her way to work last December. Gibbon has denied murder but admitted the killing on the basis he was "suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning".

Restructure for S&S UK sales Simon & Schuster UK has changed the structure of its sales team, merging its adult and children's teams. The sales structure will now be split into two divisions, with one focusing on bookshop, online and digital sales, and the other targeting mass market and special sales. As part of the changes, Dominic Brendon has been promoted to sales director for bookshops, online and digital. His team will take responsibility for all sales to Waterstones, W H Smith Travel, wholesale customers, independent bookshops and Ireland, as well as online and digital accounts.

Blackwell's relocates Bristol store Blackwell's is to close its Bristol store in its current location this summer, after more than 100 years in the same spot. The retailer confirmed that the shop closure had been in the pipeline for some time, as the store comes to the end of its lease this summer. Blackwell's is in the process of finalising an alternative location.

James Fenton receives PEN Pinter Prize British poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton has been awarded the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize.  The annual prize was established in 2009 by English PEN in memory of playwright Harold Pinter to recognise to a British writer of outstanding literary merit, who, in the words of Pinter’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world and shows a “fierce intellectual determination ... to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”.

Mentoring bursaries offered to low-income writers Quality Writing for All, a campaign to support low-income writers, with a focus on Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and disabled communities, will be officially launched tonight (16th June). The scheme has been put together by The Literary Consultancy (TLC), which is using funding from Arts Council England. The arts body increased TLC’s National Portfolio Funding grant for 2015-2018.

Pushkin in Picturehouse venture Independent Pushkin Press has become one of the founding partners of the new Picturehouse Central cinema in London, and will have a pop-up shop in the venue. The publisher’s shop will be in place at the cinema, which is located on the corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in London W1, from the end of June for at least six weeks. The shop will display books from the Pushkin Collection, including titles by Stefan Zweig, many of which have been filmed multiple times and inspired Wes Anderson's Oscar-winning “The Grand Budapest Hotel".

King and Galbraith up for CWA Gold Dagger Stephen King and Robert Galbraith, the pen name for J K Rowling, are among those longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year, for Mr Mercedes (Hodder & Stoughton) and The Silkworm (Sphere) respectively.

W&N to reissue T H White's 'The Goshawk' Weidenfeld & Nicolson is to reissue T H White’s The Goshawk, with a forward by award-winning author Helen Macdonald. First published in 1951, White’s memoir is an account of how he came to train a wild goshawk.

Campaigners oppose Carnegie sell-off Library campaigners in Sheffield are urging the city council to put on hold plans to sell a Carnegie library to a company which wants to place a restaurant and coffee shop in the building. The Walkley Carnegie Library was one of 15 of the city's 28 libraries that was passed over to volunteer control earlier this year, with volunteers taking on the running of the building.

Pan Mac buys 'ultimate sporting true crime' Pan Macmillan has acquired what it is describing as “the ultimate sporting true crime book”, exploring the theory that former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston was murdered. Robin Harvie, Non-fiction publisher at Pan Macmillan, bought UK and Commonwealth rights in The Murder of Sonny Liston by Shaun Assael from Sabila Khan at Penguin/Blue Rider.