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Publishers and booksellers hot up for Valentine's Day Publishers and booksellers are joining the love-in created by Valentine's Day, with retail events and publisher promotions setting sales in the romance genre racing.

The Essex Serpent and Enid Blyton for Grown Ups among PPC winners Campaigns for The Essex Serpent (Serpent’s Tail), When Breath Becomes Air (Vintage) and the Enid Blyton for Grown Ups series (Quercus) have been judged some of the best of 2016 at the Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC) annual awards dinner last night (13th February), recognising the publicists behind the campaigns.

Virago to publish Trump reaction anthology Radical Hope Virago is to publish an anthology of 31 original letters written in the weeks after the election of president Donald Trump from novelists, poets and political thinkers including Celeste Ng, Hari Kunzru and Karen Joy Fowler.

Hachette Children's restructures PR team Hachette Children’s Group has restructured its PR department with two new appointments and three promotions after the former head of publicity left to go freelance.

Amazon announces another bookstore, bringing US tally to nine in 2017 Amazon finds “a lot of value” in its brick and mortar stores and has announced the opening of another in California, bringing its overall tally to nine.

Milo Yiannopoulos publication pushed back three months Controversial figure Milo Yiannopoulos' book deadline has been pushed back three months so he can discuss the "insanity of the last few weeks" in the title.

Multi-million pound heist sparks 'disbelief' in antiquarian book community Antiquarian books worth more than £2 million have been stolen in a “unique” heist by a gang who dodged security by abseiling into a London warehouse, inspiring “disbelief” in the antiquarian book community.

Graeme Macrae Burnet backs campaign against Scottish library cuts Man Booker shortlisted author Graeme Macrae Burnet has backed a national campaign against Scottish library cuts, launching today (14th February).

Morpurgo and Crossan compete for Children’s Book Award Michael Morpurgo and Sarah Crossan are among the nominees for the Children’s Book Award 2017.

Val McDermid writes apocalyptic Radio 4 drama about antibiotic resistance Val McDermid has written an apocalyptic science thriller on the failure of antibiotics for BBC Radio 4, entitled "Resistance".