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The Booksellers Association has called for delays in financial
support to bookshops to be addressed "urgently" after it has
emerged many small businesses are still waiting for help with
soaring business rates.
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The academic publishing and bookselling sectors are facing
multiple calls to “talk up what you do” in the face of a changing political
environment around higher education.
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Hay Festival's first weekend has kicked off with a host of
events featuring writers including Colm Tóibín, Helen Fielding and Stephen
Fry who discussed issues such as using flashbacks in writing, criticisms of
anti-feminism and "aggregating news agencies" such as Facebook.
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Mostly Books in Abingdon has been sold to new owner Sarah
Dennis, who has held a “long ambition” to run her own book business.
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Profile Books is set to publish nine rediscovered short
stories by Ruth Rendell.
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After six weeks of heavy campaigning from political parties, The Bookseller would
like to gauge the voting intentions of the book trade with just 10 days to
go before the polls open.
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Nosy Crow is to publish two new series of books by Usborne
editor Louie Stowell.
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Leading writers Irenosen Okojie, Courttia Newland, Bidisha,
and Alex Wheatle MBE are to take up residencies in London libraries as part
of a new literary initiative.
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Schoolgirl Isabel Harris has had her book published after
winning The Book People’s inaugural Bedtime Story Competition.
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Yorkshire-based indie press Bluemoose Books is offering the
opportunity for five new writers to be published in a short story
collection alongside its leading authors Andrew Michael Hurley, Carys Bray,
Paul Kingsnorth, Peter Kalu and Kirsty Logan.
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Katy Whitehead has won the 2017 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay
Prize.
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