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Beauty and the Best: two Disney titles top the chart A tale as old as time has topped the chart, with the Disney Beauty and the Beast Book of the Film (Parragon) swooping in to take the UK Official Top 50 number one spot.

Arzu Tahsin to leave W&N Arzu Tahsin, publishing director for fiction, is leaving Weidenfeld & Nicolson after almost a decade.

Pat Barker to publish 'radical' retelling of the Iliad Hamish Hamilton has acquired a new novel by Booker Prize winner Pat Barker retelling "one of the most dramatic sequences of events in literature", the Iliad.

O'Neill to release 'dazzling' feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid Scholastic has revealed it has signed the “dazzling”, feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid by Asking for It author Louise O’Neill.

Grewal swaps Sphere for HQ HarperCollins has appointed Manpreet Grewal as editorial director for fiction at its HQ imprint following her eight-year stint at Little, Brown.

Leadbeater wins first UK Kindle Storyteller Award David Leadbeater has won the inaugural £20k UK Kindle Storyteller Award for his self-published crime thriller The Relic Hunters.

Tom Hanks to appear in UK-exclusive Southbank event Tom Hanks will be discussing his first collection of fiction in a UK-exclusive event at Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival in a "rare literary experience".

Sainsbury's to sell exclusive Peppa Pig story Sainsbury’s has partnered with BookTrust, Penguin Random House and Peppa Pig brand owner, Entertainment One, to commission and exclusively sell children's book Shop With Peppa.

Author Yap funds Curtis Brown scholarship for 'less privileged' Author Felicia Yap is to fund a Curtis Brown Creative scholarship for a talented writer from a "less privileged" background.

Morgan's 'candid' memoir set for Labour Conference release The "revealing" political autobiography of Wales' First Minister Rhodri Morgan is set to be released by University of Wales Press in September, months after his unexpected death in May.

Pascoe to explore male physiology in second Faber book Faber is to publish Sex Power Money, the follow up to comedian Sara Pascoe's feminist exploration of the female body Animal.

Ella Mills wins Nielsen award for selling 250k copies Ella Mills has been awarded a Specsavers Silver Bestseller Award for her debut cookbook Deliciously Ella (Yellow Kite), which has now sold over a quarter of a million print copies in the UK.