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Authors including Philip Pullman and Cathy Cassidy have
responded to figures which suggest a “major” drop in the take-up of arts
subjects at GCSE level, saying the discreditation of these subjects will do
damage that will “last for generations”.
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Lisa McInerney has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize
2016 for The
Glorious Heresies (John Murray) following closely on the
heels of her Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction win just two weeks ago.
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Three students were announced as the winners of the Penguin
Random House UK Design Award 2016, each receiving £1,000 and the
opportunity to undertake a work placement with the publisher.
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Storytel’s purchase of Sweden's second largest publishing
house, Norstedts, was no surprise to the trade.
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Former Orion editor Julia Silk is forging a new career
path as a literary agent in association with MBA Literary Agents.
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Retailer WH Smith has appointed Gavin McKechnie as the
international operations director of its travel division.
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Amazon has launched its latest, “most affordable” Kindle,
which is marketed as being thinner, lighter and with twice the memory as
the previous generation for the same price of £59.99.
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Biteback is to publish the story of charity Kids Company by
its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh.
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Bee Wilson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Rachel Roddy were
among the names honoured at the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2016.
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Author Margaret Thomson Davis has died after a short illness.
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To coincide with a council-run exhibition about the future of
Carnegie Library in London's Lambeth, campaigners created a
"pop-up" library to recreate "some of the things we
loved" about Carnegie.
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Helen Boyle, a literary scout and magazine editor, is joining
Pickled Ink as an agent.
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