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Hachette Book Group (HBG) has announced plans to buy the
publishing business of Perseus Books Group in the US, 18 months after an
original acquisition deal fell through.
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Penguin Random House Children’s will this summer publish a
second collection of short stories from Terry Pratchett.
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UK writer Tessa Hadley has
won a Windham-Campbell Prize, worth $150,000
(£107,000).
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Faber is set to publish a collection of short stories, The Mistletoe Murders
by “Queen of Crime” P D James.
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The Chartered Institute of Library & Information
Professionals (CILIP) has written an open letter condemning Ed Vaizey's use
of "flawed" figures for closures and new openings of public
libraries in the House of Commons.
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Mary Berry has toppled Joe Wicks in the book chart this week,
ending the Body Coach’s eight-week stretch atop the Official Top 50 by a
scant 125 copies.
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The Fiction Uncovered literary prize will not run in 2016 as
it seeks commercial sponsorship.
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The A&C Black Music list, currently owned by Bloomsbury,
is moving to HarperCollins, where it will become part of the Collins
Learning division.
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Agents at Aitken Alexander Associates have paid tribute to
their “lovely” and “hilarious” client Louise Rennison, whose death was
announced yesterday.
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Quercus is publishing a David Bowie colouring book,
charting the late musician and rock star's style over 50 years of
self-reinvention.
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Authors Cassandra Clare, Marian Keyes and Chris Riddell are
among the names featuring in an "eclectic" array of events all
over the capital for London Book & Screen Week, a seven-day celebration
of books and the films, TV programmes and virtual worlds they inspire.
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Simon & Schuster is set to publish Freedom: My Book of Firsts,
a memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in the US aged 11 and held
prisoner for 18 years.
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