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The World's Worst Children 2 straight in at number one David Walliams' The World's Worst Children 2 (HarperCollins Children's) has rocketed into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, shifting 58,481 copies for £423,282.

Women's Prize for Fiction reveals new sponsorship model The Women's Prize for Fiction has announced it is adopting a new, collective sponsorship model instead of a single headline sponsor going forward.

Oxford student wins inaugural $100k Nine Dots Prize James Williams, a doctoral candidate researching design ethics at Oxford University and former Google employee, has won the inaugural $100,000 (£77,730) Nine Dots Prize.

Fry, Atwood and Rushdie support 'Make Space' campaign PEN International has launched a campaign to support writers who have experienced forced displacement or are living in exile called "Make Space", supported by literary figures such as Stephen Fry, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie.

Charity book inspired by Tony Walsh's Manchester poem Manchester’s creative community is fundraising to produce a book inspired by Tony Walsh's poem, This is the Place, to help those affected by the terror attack in which 22 people were killed in the city last Monday.

Campaigns for Pinborough and Adichie among BMS Marketing spring winners The Book Marketing Society has announced the winners of the best marketing campaigns of January to March 2017, featuring work for Adrian Mole's 50th anniversary and Chimamanda Nogozi Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, among others.

Stanley Johnson's Brexit thriller to be adapted for Channel 4 Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's father Stanley Johnson’s satirical thriller about political "skullduggery", Kompromat (Oneworld), is to be adapted for a Channel 4 TV series.

Bath Spa Uni launches 25-word novel prize Bath Spa University has launched a "flash fiction" competition for novels of 25 words with the winning entries' to be recorded by actor Jeremy Irons.

Alt-right probe from New Yorker journalist to Pan Mac Pan Macmillan will publish a non-fiction book about the alt-right from a journalist at the New Yorker, Andrew Marantz.

LKP collaborates with Little White Lies for books and gifts line Laurence King Publishing (LKP) has joined forces with independent film magazine, Little White Lies, to collaborate on a new line of movie-themed books and gifts.