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Tony Ross has yet again topped The Bookseller’s chart of the
bestselling children’s illustrators, with his books earning almost
twice the total of his closest rival, Axel Scheffler, in 2018.
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Penguin Random House Children’s is restructuring its
rights team in a move that will see Camilla Borthwick, Joanna Lawrie
and Catherine Harrison leave the company.
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The diary of a Polish teenager, Renia Spiegel, who was
shot dead on the streets by Nazi soldiers weeks after her 18th
birthday, has been pre-empted by Ebury’s Clare Bullock after 70 years
of lying unread in a drawer.
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The Independent Bookshop Alliance is being relaunched,
with Simon Key urging booksellers to come together to decide the future
aims of the organisation.
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Bradford libraries are facing up to £2m in cuts, 65% of
the budget, over the next two years, as the local council outlines
plans to turn existing libraries into “community hubs”.
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Macmillan Children’s Books has hired Rachel Graves,
currently head of export for the Hachette Children’s Group, as
international sales director.
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Ajay Chowdhury has won Harvill Secker and Bloody
Scotland's inaugural competition with Arvon to find a new crime writer
from a BAME background for his detective-turned-waiter murder
mystery.
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Orion Spring has acquired world rights to four self-help
titles by "This Morning" TV therapists Nik and Eva
Speakman.
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The UK’s “first alternative” bookshop, Gothic Image, is
shutting its doors this month after 40 years.
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Hachette Children’s Group has bought the UK rights to Slay by US debut
author Brittney Morris, who was inspired to write after watching the
Marvel blockbuster "Black Panther".
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Graphic novels, poetry and art history make up some of the
Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes shortlists for 2019, with 31
translations from seven languages up for awards.
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