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The Works, a deep-discounting chain specialising in books,
toys, gifts, stationery and arts and crafts, is accelerating its expansion
and set to to open around 60 stores this year.
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Illustrators Chris Riddell and Oliver Jeffers have both been
longlisted twice for the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway award.
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Cengage Learning (EMEA) has reported turnover of £48.2m in the
year to end March 2015, with a profit after tax of £4.2m.
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Campaigners have derided the decision by Scotland's Argyll and
Bute Council to axe librarians from schools in the region as "utterly
astonishing" and "disgraceful".
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James Bond actor Daniel Craig has reportedly signed up to star
in a TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s novel Purity.
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The shortlist for the inaugural Jane Grigson Trust Award
for new food writers has been announced,
recognising forthcoming debuts from Chatto & Windus, Profile
Books and Bloomsbury.
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Parragon is publishing a UK edition of The Zodiac Legacy:
Convergence, the first in a new series of children’s graphic novels by
renowned comic book creator Stan Lee.
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Faber is to publish Richard T. Kelly's third novel, a
"riveting drama" entitled The
Knives.
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Three titles from Audible UK featuring "national
treasures" Bill Bailey, Richard E Grant and David Tennant have
been nominated for the 2016 Audie Awards in the US.
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The Gereon Rath crime series by German author Volker Kutscher
is to be adapted for television in a €40m (£30.9m) series jointly produced
by Sky and German public broadcaster ARD.
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Novelists William Boyd and Jenn Ashworth are to judge the
Gordon Burn Prize 2016, alongside journalist and writer Rachel Cooke and
artist and author Harland Miller.
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