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Oxford University Press has reported turnover up 3.3% on a
like-for-like basis at constant currency rates, at £847.4m, for the year
ending 31st March 2017.
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Charlie Redmayne paid tribute to the veterans of the
publishing industry who had passed away in the “brutal” last year at the
HarperCollins summer party.
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Chicken House’s Barry Cunningham has won the Branford Boase
Award for the third time for his editorial work on Beetle Boy.
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Robert McCrum, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ted Hughes’ widow Carol Hughes,
Melvyn Bragg and Andrew Lloyd Webber were among those paying tribute to
Matthew Evans at a memorial service held at the Royal Court Theatre.
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Sphere has won an auction for debut thriller writer
Vanessa Savage in a six-figure deal for two books.
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Gleam Futures has launched Gleam Titles, the literary arm of
the agency, which will have a focus on signing “digitally-minded writers”.
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The chief executive of the Libraries Taskforce, Kathy Settle,
has waded into the debate about desk space rentals, saying it is a
"business opportunity" for the sector.
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American novelist Richard Powers is publishing a new novel, The Overstory,
with William Heinemann.
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English PEN has awarded Amy Liptrot the PEN Ackerley Prize
2017 for her "exhilarating and rigourously unsentimental" memoir The Outrun (Canongate).
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Transworld is publishing psychological thriller The House Swap, and
another as-yet-untitled novel, by Rebecca Fleet.
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Jake Williams, creator of a "beautifully" designed
and illustrated children's book Resilient
Reptiles, has received a New Designers Award, presented by the
V&A.
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a biography from Judith
Mackrell about "bold and brilliant" women who
became war correspondents.
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