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Under c.e.o. Richard Johnson, the past few years have seen
breathtaking change at Bonnier Publishing, the English-language wing of
family-owned Swedish media giant Bonnier. There have been five start-ups,
overseas and in the UK, most recently a UK adult fiction business headed by
Mark Smith; and there have been acquisitions including, this year, Igloo
Books and digital romance/ erotic publisher Totally Entwined.
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Books by Karl Ove Knausgaard, anti-FGM campaigner Hibo Wardere
and Romanian novelist E O Chirovici are among the highlights agents are
taking to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
In the first of The
Bookseller’s collection of key titles, 15 agencies have shared
the books they are betting on for the fair, with a number of titles already
the subject of auctions and pre-empts.
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The London Book Fair and Bologna Children’s Book Fair have
revealed their respective exhibition dates for 2017.
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YA author Patrick Ness is to write and executively produce an
eight-part Doctor Who spin-off series, set to air in 2016.
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Headline has bought a “compulsive” debut thriller in a
six-figure deal.
Commissioning editor Emily Griffin pre-empted British
Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to If You Knew My Sister by Michelle Adams,
plus one further novel, from Madeleine Milburn at the Madeleine Milburn
Literary, TV & Film Agency.
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Profile Books has promoted Hannah Westland to the position of
Andrew Franklin’s editorial deputy.
Westland has been the publisher at Serpent’s Tail since 2012,
and before that was an agent at Rogers, Coleridge and White. Her authors at
Serpent’s Tail include Zoe Pilger, Sarah Perry, and Jami Attenberg.
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John Murray, an imprint of John Murray Press, has acquired In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight
Against Alzheimer’s, following a "hotly contested"
six-figure auction.
Publisher Georgina Laycock bought world rights to the book -
a human history of Alzheimer’s, the science behind it and the race to
find a cure - from Carrie Plitt at Conville & Walsh.
US rights have already been sold to Tracy Behar at Little
Brown US. Anna Alexander and the JMP Rights team will be selling
translation rights at Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Submissions for FutureBook Awards close at midnight tonight
(Friday 2nd October).
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Books Are My Bag has teamed up with The Busking Project to
launch The Bookshop Buskers.
The initiative will see buskers and street theatre bring “high
streets to life” on Saturday 10th October as part of the industry-wide
Books Are My Bag (BAMB) campaign. The partnership’s aim is to provide
customers with a lively shopping experience and to remind them that high
streets are dynamic social hubs that bring communities together.
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Lonely Planet is revising its two Nepal travel guides in light
of the devastating earthquakes in April.
Nepal (£17.99) and Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya (£14.99)
will be reissued in December. Joe Bindloss, LP’s destination editor
covering Nepal, said: “We wanted to get the revised books into the market
quickly so that people thinking of coming to Nepal would be able to make an
informed decision about whether or not to travel.”
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Joan Bakewell, Sathnam Sanghera, Tessa Hadley, Damian Barr and
Frances Balkwill will judge the Wellcome Book Prize 2016.
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Michael Morpurgo has signed a three book deal with
HarperCollins and the first new title will be published later this month.
Eagle in the Snow, released 8th October (h/b,
£12.99), was inspired by the true story of Henry Tandey, the most decorated
British soldier of the First World War and the man who allegedly had the
chance to kill Hitler at the Battle of Marcoing. Publication will be
accompanied by a nationwide PR and marketing campaign.
The next two novels, whose titles are yet to be announced,
will be published between now and 2019.
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