The Bookseller

Mood has shifted towards bookshops, says Bottomley The media is wakening up to the threat posed to the high street by Amazon, and the contribution made to wider society by bookshops, Booksellers Association president Nick Bottomley told delegates at the BA's annual conference.

Wood joins RCW as agent Outgoing Orion group publisher Jon Wood is joining Rogers, Coleridge and White as an agent in January.

S&S UK snaps up Eccleston's memoir Simon & Schuster UK is to publish actor Christopher Eccleston’s memoir, charting his own acting career plus the impact on him and his family of his late father’s struggle with dementia.

Six indies win Pan Mac's innovation competition Indies From the Madding Crowd, Imagined Things, Hunting Raven, Mostly Books, Moon Lane Ink and Newham Bookshop have all been named winners of the Independent Bookshop Innovation Award.

De Bellaigue, Mekhennet, Kaufmann shortlisted for £25k British Academy prize Six writers will contest the shortlist for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018, the British Academy's £25,000 international prize.

Mantle wins seven-way auction for Healey Mantle associate publisher Sam Humphreys has won a seven-way auction for a debut novel from short story writer Jane Healey.

Viking announces new Zlatan Ibrahimović book Penguin Random House (PRH) division Viking will this November publish a new book by and about footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović.

EUP sees 6% revenue rise, appoints Allin and Mason Edinburgh University Press saw a further year of rising sales for the 12 months to end July 2018, with total revenues of £3.43m, 6% up on the previous year.

McDermid’s ‘My Scotland’ to Sphere Sphere non-fiction has acquired My Scotland, by crime writer Val McDermid in collaboration with photographer Alan McCreadie.

Gray brings more unexpected joy to Octopus Octopus imprint Aster has bought two new titles from Catherine Gray, author of hit debut The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, which Aster also published.

Dubruille to step down as EIBF director Francoise Dubruille will step down from the position as director of the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) in April 2019.

Nosy Crow signs film critic Tom Huddleston Nosy Crow has bought two titles by film critic and writer Tom Huddleston.