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Hachette UK buys Nicholas Brealey Business and personal development publisher Nicholas Brealey Publishing has been bought by Hachette UK, with the business becoming an imprint within John Murray Publishing. The deal will see founder Nick Brealey continue to manage the lists, reporting into John Murray Press m.d. Nick Davies, while all other members of Nicholas Brealey staff both in London and the US will transfer over, with four members of staff in Clerkenwell moving to Carmelite House, and three in Boston joining Hachette Book Group's Boston offices.

Charts: sunshine continues for Hislop and Headline Victoria Hislop has retained the top spot on the UK Official Top 50 for the second consecutive week while Paula Hawkins continues to close in on Dan Brown’s record for most weeks as an Original Fiction number one.  Hislop’s The Sunrise (Headline) sold 28,450 copies last week through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market, a hefty 9.1% week on week sales rise from her chart-topping performance the previous week.

Toby Jones given senior role at S&S Former Penguin communications manager Toby Jones has been hired as group marketing and publicity director by Simon & Schuster.  Jones, who left Penguin in 2013 to go travelling, will begin at S&S on 1st July and report to chief executive and publisher Ian Chapman.  Marketing director Dawn Burnett, communications director Hannah Corbett and children’s marketing and publicity director Elisa Offord will all report to Jones.

'Moving' memoir from Nick Frost to H&S Hodder & Stoughton is to publish a "dark, exhilarating and movingly honest" memoir from comic actor Nick Frost. World rights in Truths, Half Truths and Utter Bullshit, which has been written solely by Frost, were acquired by H&S non-fiction publisher Hannah Black from Hamilton Hodell Talent Management. Frost starred in cult TV comedy “Spaced", working with Simon Pegg, with whom he would go on to make the Cornetto trilogy of films – "Shaun of the Dead", "Hot Fuzz", and "The World’s End".

Broderick made PR director for PRH Children's Penguin Random House Children’s has appointed Alice Broderick to the newly created role of PR director Penguin Random House Children’s, with Tania Vian-Smith taking on another new role as her deputy. Broderick joins the recently merged team this week from Vintage Publishing, where she has been publicity director, creating and driving campaigns for authors including Sebastian Faulks, William Boyd, Helen Fielding and Howard Jacobson. She previously worked in roles at HarperCollins, Colman Getty and Penguin Children's.

Emma Donoghue pens children’s book Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired a children’s book by Emma Donoghue, author of adult bestseller Room. The Lotterys Plus One is a middle-grade title about Sumac Lottery, a girl with six siblings, two mums, two dads. The family all live together in a big Victorian house they all call Camelottery. When Sumac’s racist and homophobic grandfather nearly burns his own house down, he has to move in, causing tension within the family.

Amazon to pay KDP authors 'per page' Amazon is changing the way it pays self-published authors whose books are enlisted in the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending library to a pay-per-page-read model. From 1st July, it will pay Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) author royalties depending on how many pages of a book a customer has read, as opposed to how many times a book has been borrowed. The rule will apply to UK authors on Amazon.co.uk as well as in the US.

Wiley sees 4% annual revenue growth Wiley saw revenue growth of 4% for the 12 months to end of April 2015, according to its latest financial results. For the fiscal year, Wiley saw revenue of $1,822m, a rise of 4% from $1,775m taken across 2014. For the fourth quarter of the 2015, revenue stood at $442m, up 2% from the same period last year on a constant currency basis. Revenue from digital products and services reached a high of 60% of total revenues, up from 55% in 2014. The percentage of revenue generated by print books fell to just 25% of the company's overall turnover.

Morrison 'thought harassment would never end' Former children’s publisher Alison Morrison, who died after an attack in which she was stabbed 33 times, thought harassment from her neighbour would “never end”, a court has heard. Morrison, 45, from Harrow, died as she made her way to work on 18th December 2014.

Renowned translator Rowohlt dies Harry Rowohlt, one of Germany’s most renowned translators, has died at the age of 70 in his hometown Hamburg.  Rowohlt translated more than 200 works by English-language authors into German, among them David Sedaris, James Joyce and Frank McCourt. But the book that made him famous – and had his name on the cover in letters as big as those of the author himself - was his skillful and witty translation of A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, which became a children’s book classic in Germany as Pu der Bär.

Coen and O'Halloran join Madeleine Milburn Ltd The Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency is expanding with the addition of two new agents this summer. Thérèse Coen will join the business as a rights agent in July, with Sarah O'Halloran joining as a literary agent in August.

'Neighbour delivery' app from Amazon Amazon.com is reportedly trialing an app to use ordinary people to deliver Amazon parcels to their neighbours. The Wall Street Journal  has cited people familiar with the situation as saying the service would pay neighbours to collect parcels from retail warehouses and drop them off at customers’ doors.  To internal Amazon employees, the service is known as “On My Way”.