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Agents call for 'transparency' from Freight Books Authors and agents have called on Freight Books to provide more transparency about its financial status after it emerged its writers have not been paid for several months.

Books Are My Bag couples with eHarmony to flag shops' romance This year’s Books Are My Bag (BAMB) campaign is hooking up with dating site eHarmony to promote bookshops as the perfect destination for a romantic date.

Schama, Uglow and Eddo-Lodge longlisted for 2017's Baillie Gifford Historian Simon Schama, former Chatto editor Jenny Uglow and journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge are among those longlisted for 2017's Baillie Gifford Prize, a £30,000 prize rewarding authors of any nationality for penning the best of non-fiction.

O'Reilly heads mentoring scheme for indie booksellers Indie booksellers looking to develop their business will be able to access free mentoring from former Dulwich Books owner Sheila O’Reilly, thanks to an initiative by the Unwin Charitable Trust.

Penney wins £10k Wilbur Smith adventure writing prize Under a Pole Star (Quercus) by Costa-winning author Stef Penney has been awarded the £10,000 2017 Wilbur and Niso Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel.

Burton's first children's book to be Grimm fairytale retelling Jessie Burton’s first children’s book with Bloomsbury’s Children’s Books will be a feminist reimagining of the Grimms’ fairytale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses”, entitled The Restless Girls.

Hairy Bikers to publish Mediterranean Adventure Seven Dials is publishing The Hairy Bikers’ Mediterranean Adventure on 2nd November.

'Oi Cat!' to be BA indie booksellers children's choice The BA Children's Bookselling Group is launching the Indie Booksellers Children's Book of the Season, which aims to showcase indie bookshops' abillity to promote and sell children's books.

Lonely Planet Kids unveils redesign Lonely Planet is redesigning its Lonely Planet Kids books in order to give the brand a clearer identity.

China’s 2017 book sales continue upward curve China’s printed book sales in the first half of 2017 have showed revenue growth year on year of “above 10%”, according to book-sales data company OpenBook, which released the figure at the Beijing International Book Fair.

Former editor seals deal with Pushkin A former Bloomsbury editor’s début novel about a child refugee’s perilous journey is being published by Pushkin, which bought the title after it was submitted under a nom de plume.

Weekly E-Ranking: Hachette job sees McDermid hit number one Val McDermid has gone straight to number one in her first appearance in The Bookseller’s Weekly E-Book Ranking.