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Academic Book Week to return in January A second Academic Book Week will be held in January 2017, following the success of last November's inaugural event.

'War on social cohesion': Finch slams community cuts Dawn Finch, children’s author and president of CILIP, has launched an attack on cuts to community resources, branding them tantamount to a “war on social cohesion and our culture”.

Transworld ponies up for Jilly Cooper bash Transworld launched Jilly Cooper's new equine-themed "blockbuster" novel Mount! (Bantam) at a star-studded bash at the Mandarin Oriental in London's Knightsbridge.

Little Mix autobiography to Penguin Girl band Little Mix is releasing a new "behind-the-scenes" autobiography with Penguin this autumn.

'Festival' to mark opening of Foyles Chelmsford A fortnight-long festival is set to mark the opening of Foyles Bond Street in Chelmsford, featuring authors such as Martina Cole and Jeffrey Archer.

Bloomsbury has two on FT Business Book shortlist Two titles from Bloomsbury have been shortlisted for the FT and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year award alongside entries from HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Princeton University Press and Harvard University Press.

'Lost stories' of F Scott Fitzgerald to be published Simon & Schuster's US imprint Scribner is publishing the last remaining unpublished stories of F Scott Fitzgerald, author of the The Great Gatsby, next spring.

'Strongest shortlist yet' for Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards The 12-strong shortlist for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards 2016 has been unveiled, with a strong presence from larger publishers Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Penguin Random House.

Women's Equality Party co-founder pens 'illuminating' book HarperCollins imprint HQ is to publish Attack of the Fifty Foot Women, an "exciting and inspiring" book by author and co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party, Catherine Mayer.

O'Reilly departs Dulwich Books after 14 years Sheila O’Reilly is retiring from Dulwich Books, just over a year after selling it to The Marsh Agency co-founder Susie Nicklin.

TV deal for Baileys winner Lisa McInerney Lisa McInerney's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction-winning debut, The Glorious Heresies, has been optioned for TV in a deal with boutique TV production company Fifty Fathoms.

New Wally Lamb novel to PRH Penguin Random House has acquired bestselling American author Wally Lamb's new novel, I’ll Take You There.