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Springer Nature c.e.o. Derk Haank [pictured] is to retire from
his role by the end of the year, with bol.com c.e.o. Daniel Ropers taking
on leadership of the publisher.
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Dan Brown's new Robert Langdon thriller Origin, due for
release with Transworld in September, will be set in Spain.
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Ian Rankin has brought David Walliams’ reign in the UK
Official Top 50 number one spot to an end, after four weeks. Rather be the Devil
(Orion), the 21st John Rebus title, leapfrogged The World’s Worst Children 2 (HarperCollins
Children's) to swipe the top spot.
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Bonnier Publishing UK's Totally Entwined Group has launched
a romance e-store and self-publishing platform called First For Romance.
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Gui Minhai, the Hong Kong-based publisher and bookseller
kidnapped by Chinese agents in October 2015, and still in detention in
China, features on this year’s shortlist for the International Publishers
Association’s Prix Voltaire.
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Philip Pullman has confirmed he will name a character in his
Book of Dust series “Nur Huda el-Wahabi”, after a young Grenfell Tower
victim.
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Sceptre editorial director Melissa Cox has acquired debut
novel Suicide Club by
Rachel Heng after a "heated" auction to be its
"super-lead" title in 2018.
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Rightwing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has claimed to
have sold 65,000 copies of his self-published memoir, Dangerous.
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Sharjah has been named the UNESCO World Book Capital 2019.
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Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable
Creatures has been optioned by Resonate Entertainment.
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Robinson Psychology is publishing a Nobel Prize-winning
neuroscientist, Professor Eric R Kandel.
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Penguin Random House Publisher Services is expanding its
long-standing 10-year sales and distribution agreement with DC
Entertainment to include the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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