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Century publishing director Ben Dunn has become the latest
Bonnier recruit, appointed as m.d. of Blink Publishing, the flagship
imprint of its new Kings Road Publishing division.
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Picador editorial director Kate Harvey is moving to Harvill
Secker in the role of deputy publishing director.
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Kate Atkinson, Michel Faber and Irvine Welsh feature on the
shortlists for the 2015 Saltire Literary Awards, with two new awards
introduced this year: The Fiction Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Book of
the Year. The new prizes were created for the Awards in place of last
year's Literary Book of the Year, due to the plethora of titles eligible
for submission.
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HarperCollins UK chief executive Charlie Redmayne is to give
the closing keynote address at the FutureBook Conference this year.
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The new Harry Potter play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child", to open in the West End next year, will "start where the
seventh book left off, and is the eighth story in the series”, J K Rowling
has said.
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The children’s book world should not be scared of
self-publishing, according to Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin, the Swedish
author behind the bestselling picture book The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep,
which shot to number one in the Amazon.co.uk book chart before the author
signed any deals with traditional publishers.
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Comic The Phoenix is collaborating with big-name children’s
authors Philip Pullman and Chris Riddell for its 200th edition.
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Actor Stephen McGann has written a nostalgic diary and social
history narrative of what life was like for his character Doctor Turner
from the smash-hit BBC series "Call The Midwife".
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First time author Ben Fergusson [pictured] has scooped the Historical
Writers’ Association 2015 Debut Crown Award for new historical fiction with
The Spring of Kasper
Meier (Little, Brown), while historical fiction veteran Michael
Morpurgo received the Outstanding Contribution to Fiction Award.
Fergusson was awarded the £2,000 prize by broadcaster Mark
Lawson at the opening night of the Harrogate History Festival (22nd October)
at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate.
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A new independent children’s bookshop, Rogan's Books, is set
to open in Bedford after the community pledged to support its launch with
£1,000 of bookshop vouchers.
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Profile Books has launched three new "fully
responsive" consumer-facing websites which will enable readers to
purchase both print and e-books directly from Profile.
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Scottish independent bookshop The Mainstreet Trading Company
has revealed how it has spent the grant money it received from author James
Patterson: it has bought and renovated a van, transforming it into a mobile
bookshop.
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