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Mog stays purr-fect with third number one Judith Kerr’s Mog’s Christmas Calamity (HarperCollins Children’s) has held the number one spot for a third week running, despite a 50.1% drop in volume on the previous week.

Hachette's Pietsch predicts book industry surge Hachette Book Group chief executive Michael Pietsch has predicted "huge growth" in writing and reading in the years to come, as a generation nurtured on Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and The Fault in Our Stars reaches maturity.

Gollancz signs War of the Worlds sequel Gollancz is set to publish a sequel to H G Wells’ science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, written by Stephen Baxter.

Morrissey wins Bad Sex in Fiction award Morrissey has been named as the winner of this year’s Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for List of the Lost (Penguin Classics).

Merrington hired as Peter Rabbit brand manager Penguin Random House Children’s has hired Thomas Merrington, formerly of Silvergate Media, to the newly created role of Peter Rabbit brand manager and head of product development for the Penguin Ventures portfolio.

Herdman joins Hodder from Curtis Brown Hodder & Stoughton is strengthening its fiction department by appointing Curtis Brown's Emma Herdman and promoting two people.

Hitler's Mein Kampf to be republished Adolf Hitler’s political manifesto Mein Kampf is to be published for the first time since the end of the Second World War, the BBC has reported.

Poet Christopher Middleton dies Carcanet poet Christopher Middleton has died.

Shukla crowd-funding for BAME anthology Writer Nikesh Shukla has launched an anthology about race and immigration titled The Good Immigrant on crowd-funding site Unbound.

Reid Banks complains about Guardian Children's Prize winner Author Lynne Reid Banks has complained about David Almond winning this year’s Guardian Children’s Book Prize, saying A Song for Ella Grey (Hodder) is “clearly not for children” with its “lesbian love, swearing and drinking”.

What companies can learn from Kim Kardashian to Piatkus Piatkus has acquired a book by a celebrity branding expert, provisionally entitled The Kim Kardashian Principle: Why superficial things get shared the most.

Inspector Chen Series adapted for R4 Qiu Xialong’s Inspector Chen Series, published by Mulholland Books, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, has been turned into a "major" BBC Radio 4 drama.