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Independent booksellers called for more diversity in
children’s books at an Inclusive Minds event, because their customers are
asking for a greater range of ethnic diversity and family types in titles.
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Margaret Atwood has been awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize at
the same time as it is announced that she will be embarking on a UK book
tour.
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The memorial service for publisher Peter Owen honoured the
“remarkable, flamboyant, clever man” with tributes, song and poems from
family and friends.
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Nathan Hull has stepped down from his position as chief
business development officer at Mofibo following its acquisition by
Storytel.
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A college professor and a university fellow have won the
Wolfson History Prize, awarded £30,000 each.
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SAGE has hired Ian Mulvany, head of technology at open access
science journal eLife, to the new role of head of product innovation.
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"Geordie Shore" star and "Celebrity Big
Brother" winner Scotty T (Scott Timlin) is writing a memoir, to be
published by Simon & Schuster.
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Penguin Random House UK is partnering with Waterstones,
Gatwick Express and The Reading Agency as it ramps up publicity for the
paperback of Go Set a
Watchman, publishing with PRH commercial paperback imprint
Arrow.
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More than half of primary school pupils in the UK don’t have
enough time to talk about books in the classroom, according to research
released by Oxford University Press.
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Quarto imprint Frances Lincoln Children’s Books and London’s
Natural History Museum are launching a publishing partnership to create 10
non-fiction titles per year.
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Marion Duvert, previously senior editor at Editions du Seuil
in Paris, is set to become foreign rights director at The Clegg Agency.
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Actress Juliet Stevenson is to announce and narrate this
year’s winning story at the RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award on 24th
June.
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