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Booksellers are feeling bullish as the four-week countdown
begins to Christmas, despite a drop in volume and a "trend void".
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Thirty years after it was founded, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
(JKP) has been bought by Hachette UK for an undisclosed sum.
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Richard Johnson, Bonnier Publishing's group
chief executive, has slammed the industry's "obsession with
targets and quotas" as "nonsense" when it comes
to addressing lack of diversity in the book world.
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Adrian Searle has set up a new publishing company, The Bookseller understands,
as his former press Freight Books is officially wound up.
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The ex-boyfriend of author Emma Cline has filed a lawsuit
against her in the US alleging that she plagiarised parts of her debut
novel The Girls (Chatto
& Windus) from him.
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HarperCollins has inked a "major" world English and
foreign language publishing agreement with thriller writer Karin Slaughter.
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Christopher Bollen has won the 25th annual Literary
Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for The Destroyers (Harper).
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HQ has pre-empted a debut novel inspired by a ghostly folktale
for a "significant six-figure sum" in what agent Madeleine
Milburn called the "fastest response I've ever seen" to a
manuscript.
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Penguin Random House’s chief financial officer (CFO) in the
US, Milena Alberti, is leaving the company at the end of this year.
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Kim Moore has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for
her poetry collection The
Art of Falling (Seren Books).
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Canongate is to publish the first novel in a new historical
crime series by Ambrose Parry, set in the medical world of Edinburgh in the
1840s.
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