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The force was with World Book Day last week as The Escape: Star Wars
(Egmont) claimed the number one spot from Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking (BBC)
and all 10 WBD titles charted inside the top 15.
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Author Lionel Shriver has said literary prizes just for women
are "problematic", while calling International Women's Day
"creepy" at an event to mark the occasion.
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Chair of Penguin Random House UK, Baroness Gail Rebuck,
is set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 from the London
Book Fair.
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The BBC is to broadcast adaptations of NW (Hamish Hamilton)
by Zadie Smith and Decline
and Fall (Penguin Classics) by Evelyn Waugh later this year,
the BBC's Charlotte Moore, controller of TV channels and iPlayer, has
announced.
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The arguments for and against the relaxation of Sunday Trading
laws have ramped up ahead of a key vote on the proposal in the House of
Commons today.
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Blink Publishing is to release The David Brent Songbook to coincide with
the UK cinema release of "Life on the Road" starring Ricky
Gervais, this summer.
Ben Dunn, m.d. of Blink, acquired exclusive worldwide rights
from Robert Kirby and Duncan Hayes at United Agents.
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The most talked about presentation of yesterday's Digital Book
World conference in New York came from Jonathan Taplin, director of the
Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, who
asked: “Is this tech revolution great for everybody or just a few at
the top of the Forbes 400?"
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Two Roads is publishing a novel by film writer-director
Whit Stillman, inspired by a short work by Jane Austen which was never
published in her lifetime.
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Bob Johnston, owner of The Gutter Bookshop, has won The
O'Brien Press Bookseller of the Year Award in Ireland for his “immense”
commitment to bookselling.
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Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House, is
publishing YouTube star Caspar Lee's memoir, authored in
collaboration with the 21-year-old's mum.
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Jonathan Cape is publishing BRIT(ish): Getting Under the Skin of Britain’s
Race Problem by Afua Hirsch, social affairs editor for Sky
News.
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HarperNonFiction has acquired Instachaaz, the first book by Instagram
"sensation" Chaz Hutton.
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