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Closing Bath-based publisher Parragon cost owner DC
Thomson £41m, according to the Scottish-based company’s annual
financial results.
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The executive chairman of the Booksellers Association has
called for positivity in the year ahead as he says booksellers are
bucking the trend of high street closures.
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Michelle Obama's Becoming (Viking)
has held the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a third week,
leaping 26% in volume week on week to shift 116,920 copies for £1.87m
in the seven days to the end of 22nd December.
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His Dark Materials creator Philip Pullman has been
knighted in the New Year's Honours list.
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Music retailer HMV has appointed KPMG as
administrators, citing the challenges to the high street and an
"unsustainable" fall in the market for DVDs this
Christmas.
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The Big Green Bookshop is closing down its physical
premises as owner Simon Key moves the business to online
only, with "absolute monster" rates and rents forcing him to
shut the bricks and mortar shop.
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Barack Obama has revealed his favourite books of 2018—and
his wife Michelle's memoir Becoming (Viking)
has topped his list.
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Tributes have been paid to Israeli author Amos Oz, who has
died of cancer, aged 79, with his friend and fellow author David
Grossman saying "there was only one like him".
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The former Irish
Times literary correspondent Eileen Battersby has
died aged 60 following a car crash in County Meath this weekend.
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A debut non-fiction book from Irish scientist Olive
Heffernan about the ‘Blue Gold Rush’, The New Pirates of the High Seas, has
sparked a bidding war on both sides of the Atlantic.
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