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In keeping with the pattern of recent years, the Big Four’s
share of the overall market has contracted, with many feeling the absence
of a breakout bestseller.
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Labour MP Margaret Hodge has said that there is no better
time to push for business rate reform than the present, because the
government has been weakened in parliament by the general election.
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Little, Brown Book Group has made a series of promotions
within its editorial department.
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Chris Brookmyre has scooped the Theakston Old Peculier Crime
Novel of the Year Award for his novel Black
Widow (Little, Brown).
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The Handmaid’s Tale has racked up a fifth week
in the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one spot, matching the run of Jojo
Moyes’ Me Before You
last summer.
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Biteback Publishing has signed a title claiming to tell the
"true story" of Princess Diana's fatal crash in 1997.
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Denise Mina’s The
Long Drop has made the fiction-heavy Gordon Burn Prize
shortlist this year, along with two debuts.
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Trapeze has acquired a high-concept thriller, The Tattoo Thief by
Alison Belsham, who won a pitching event at the Bloody Scotland festival.
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Jack Ramm has made the move from agent to publisher after
being hired as commissioning editor for Penguin Random House imprint
Viking.
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Jim Kay’s illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone will be available digitally through Amazon Kindle
for the first time this September.
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New research from Arts Council England has explored the
“important contribution” public libraries make to the well-being of older
people.
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Illustrated reference publisher DK has promoted Sarah Larter
from publisher to children’s publishing director.
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