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Submissions heat up ahead of LBF The London Book Fair, which runs next month (12th–14th April) is getting “more significant all the time”, with the British event still very much a place where deals are cut, publishers have told The Bookseller.

Too Naked For the Nazis claims 38th Diagram Prize A biography of a musical hall act has beaten an academic treatise on the human posterior in the closest race ever for The Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.

North departs Amazon for Shutterfly Amazon.co.uk managing director Christopher North is to leave the business, taking up a post as president and chief executive officer of personalised gift company Shutterfly from 31st May.

David Solomons wins Waterstones prize Author David Solomons has won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2016 for his novel My Brother is a Superhero (Nosy Crow).

APS Awards triumph for OUP, John Smith and Blackwell’s Blackwell’s, Oxford University Press and JS Group were all honoured at the annual Academic, Professional and Specialist Awards, held at Wotton House in Surrey last night (17th March).

Quentin Blake in HCCB picture book collaboration HarperCollins Children’s Books is to publish a picture book by Sir Quentin Blake and Emma Chichester Clarke in a “landmark acquisition”.

French author earnings revealed in survey The most extensive survey of authors' "economic and social conditions" ever conducted in France has shown that fewer than 10% of the estimated 101,600 authors in France earned most of their living from their work in 2013, the most recent year of available data.

Scholastic signs YA tattoo trilogy Scholastic UK has struck a three-book deal for a new YA trilogy by debut author Alice Broadway.

Sally Riley to leave Aitken Alexander Sally Riley, director of the foreign rights department at Aitken Alexander Associates, will step down from her role at the end of April.

Mike Jones to partner with Colin Midson's Bookshaped Consultants Mike Jones and Colin Midson are to partner to broaden the remit of Bookshaped, an agency set up by Midson in 2012.

Oneworld's Beatty wins major US award The Sellout by Paul Beatty, which will be published by Oneworld in May, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in the US last night.

McDermid and Cleeves join Orkney library fight Leading writers Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves have spoken out against proposed cuts to Orkney's mobile library service.