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Independent booksellers are backing Graeme Macrae
Burnet’s His Bloody
Project (Contraband) to win the Man Booker Prize,
following strong sales.
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Penguin Random House UK is launching Flipper, an online
book recommendation engine, as part of a Christmas campaign to help
customers choose the right Christmas present for loved ones.
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Peter Jackson, the film director behind The Lord of the Rings
and The Hobbit trilogies, is adapting a film version of Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines
(Scholastic).
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Three new independent publishers are to join the Northern
Fiction Alliance which intends to position the north of England as a
"centre of publishing excellence" .
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4th Estate has bought the first book by BBC Radio
4 Today presenter Mishal Husain, described as "the ultimate
handbook for women".
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Two Hachette UK companies, Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) and
Octopus, have struck a 10-year partnership with the National Gallery
Company to produce activity books for children and adults.
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The Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals (CILIP) has called on Westminster City Council to halt
proposed cuts to the library budget of £750,000 a year "until a proper
public consultation has been carried out".
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Michael O’Mara Books is publishing Road Racer: It’s In My Blood by
"wild man of TT" Michael Dunlop.
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Michael Danaher has been found guilty of murdering author and
rare books dealer Adrian Greenwood (pictured) over a first edition of The Wind in the Willows.
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Penguin Random House Children’s has acquired world rights to a
children’s fiction title by actor and magician Nick Mohammed.
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