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OUP posts 3.3% turnover rise 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.

Redmayne hails 'terrific year' at HarperCollins Summer Party 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.

Barry Cunningham wins Branford Boase Award for third time Chicken House’s Barry Cunningham has won the Branford Boase Award for the third time for his editorial work on Beetle Boy.

‘Management and mischief’: Matthew Evans remembered 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.

Sphere wins auction for 'haunting' crime debut in six-figure deal Sphere has won an auction for debut thriller writer Vanessa Savage in a six-figure deal for two books.

Gleam Futures launches literary division Gleam Futures has launched Gleam Titles, the literary arm of the agency, which will have a focus on signing “digitally-minded writers”.

Library desk rentals a 'business opportunity' says Taskforce chief 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.

Powers returns to William Heinemann to publish The Overstory American novelist Richard Powers is publishing a new novel, The Overstory, with William Heinemann.

Liptrot's 'exhilarating' memoir wins PEN Ackerley Prize English PEN has awarded Amy Liptrot the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 for her "exhilarating and rigourously unsentimental" memoir The Outrun (Canongate).

'Rare, creepy' psychological thriller The House Swap to Transworld Transworld is publishing psychological thriller The House Swap, and another as-yet-untitled novel, by Rebecca Fleet.

Children's illustrator Williams named New Designer of the Year 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.

Mackrell's biography of women war correspondents to Pan Mac Pan Macmillan has acquired a biography from Judith Mackrell about "bold and brilliant" women who became war correspondents.