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Roald Dahl scores first number one in book chart Roald Dahl has scored his first ever Official Top 50 number one, as World Book Day title The Great Mouse Plot (Puffin) leapfrogged Cavan Scott’s The Escape: Star Wars (Egmont). The Great Mouse Plot, illustrated by Quentin Blake, sold 32,096 copies for £32,096, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.

Simon Mayo pens thriller YA debut Penguin Random House Children’s is to publish radio presenter Simon Mayo’s debut YA novel, Blame, this summer.

Ness and Riddell vie for third Carnegie/Greenaway medals Patrick Ness is in the running to become the first author to win three CILIP Carnegie medals, whilst Chris Riddell, Anthony Browne and Helen Oxenbury are all up for their third CILIP Kate Greenaway award.

Bonnier Zaffre launches new dinosaur children’s imprint Bonnier Zaffre is launching a new children’s imprint to publish six middle-grade books about dinosaurs who live side-by-side with humans, and a range of related merchandise.

French publishers' outrage over KDP teacher workshops French publishers and booksellers are up in arms over an agreement with the Education Ministry’s multimedia arm for Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing to hold workshops in France to promote self-publishing by teachers and others in the education community.

Egmont Publishing revenues fall 1% Egmont Group, the Scandinavian media group that owns Egmont Publishing, said 2015 was a "satisfac

Sarah J Naughton to publish thriller with Trapeze Trapeze is publishing Tattletale, a psychological adult thriller by children's writer and Costa nominated novelist Sarah J. Naughton.

HarperCollins shares job vacancies with News Corp HarperCollins has launched an internal careers website which gives News Corp employees the ability to apply for jobs across HarperCollins UK, News UK, and Dow Jones.

Viking pre-empts psychological thriller in 'substantial' deal Viking has pre-empted world rights for a debut psychological thriller My Sister’s Bones by British author Nuala Ellwood.

Jackie Kay named Scottish Makar Jackie Kay has been appointed as the National Poet for Scotland, known as the Scottish Makar.

Hodder releases Great British Bake Off app Hodder & Stoughton is releasing a Great British Bake Off app.

Cheung moves to Piatkus in two-book deal Author and spiritualist Theresa Cheung has found a new publisher in Piatkus, after previously being published by Simon & Schuster.