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The European market is back with a bang this year, with
foreign publishers moving “quickly and ambitiously” to secure several
big deals during the course of London Book Fair.
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Reclusive Italian writer Elena Ferrante and Nobel Laureate
Orhan Pamuk have been named on the six-strong Man Booker International
Prize shortlist.
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Rosamund de la Hey, owner and founder of The Mainstreet
Trading Company, has been made president of the Booksellers
Association.
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Harlequin UK and Harlequin North America have unveiled a
coordinated strategy to acquire and promote fiction for their
respective trade imprints across the world English market.
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Three unpublished authors will compete for the inaugural
£10,000 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers’ Award (DRFWA), in honour of
the late agent.
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Penguin is in talks to sell Dorling Kindersley, Sky
News has claimed.
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HarperCollins will run a graduate scheme exclusively for
black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates in a bid to
diversify its talent pool.
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Rowan Lawton of Furniss Lawton has sold a "sweeping
page-turner" about two sisters separated by war, White Chrysanthemum
by Mary Lynn Bracht, to Chatto & Windus in a six-figure pre-empt
during London Book Fair.
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Amazon has announced its thinnest and lightest e-reader,
the Kindle Oasis, "designed to feel weightless".
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Walker Books UK has acquired two books by David Almond – a
middle-grade novel that will be illustrated by Alex T Smith, and a
picture book illustrated by Levi Pinfold.
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As of this month, the St Bride Foundation Library is
opening without entry charge on the first Wednesday of each month, in a
limited reversal of its move last year to open only on a private,
paid-for basis.
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Atlantic has completed three major acquisitions at this
year’s fair.
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