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As the 67th National Book Awards were about to get underway in
New York last night (16th November), 76- year-old U.S. Congressman John
Lewis, an American hero and living legend of the Civil Rights Movement,
told The Bookseller:
"We have to continue to stand up, speak up, and continue to fight. We
don’t have a choice. This, too, shall pass.”
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American thriller writer Roger Hobbs, author of Ghostman and Vanishing Games
(Transworld), has died, aged 28, after an overdose.
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Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Mike McCormack, Paul O’ Connell
and Tana French are some of winners of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book
Awards 2016 held in Dublin’s Double Tree Hilton yesterday evening
(16th November).
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YA author Melinda Salisbury has asked her publisher not to
submit her books for review to newspapers such as the Daily Mail in support
of the ‘Stop Funding Hate’ movement.
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Picador has acquired Ponti by
Sharlene Teo, winner of the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award
for an unpublished writer, after a seven-way auction.
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The late agent Carole Blake has been honoured with the Agent
of the Year award at the Romantic Novelists' Association's (RNA) second
industry awards.
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US publishers’ revenues fell 3.4% year-on-year to $5.37bn
(£4.32bn) for the first half of 2016, new statistics from the Association
of American Publishers have revealed.
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Prophecy by S J Parris (HarperCollins) has been
chosen as the focus of Cityread London’s 2017 campaign.
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Bob Dylan will not be attending the Nobel Prize Ceremony in
Sweden to collect his award, the Swedish Academy has revealed.
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Delegates at this year’s FutureBook Conference will be able to
get hands-on experience of the latest virtual reality headsets, discuss
trends in the US audiobooks market and learn how to “reach the millennial
audience” with Spotify.
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Sir Norman Bettison, the former chief constable of both
Merseyside and West Yorkshire Police, has defended his book about the
Hillsborough disaster, saying he is “entitled" to tell his story.
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Nobrow children's imprint Flying Eye was named a winner in the
2016 Chen Bochui International Children's Literature awards, presented in
Shanghai, China, earlier today (Thursday 17th November).
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