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Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (Picador) is being tipped by
bookmarkers to win the Man Booker Prize 2015.
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Audio has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the
digital book market, findings from The
Bookseller’s Digital Census show.
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The Frankfurt Book Fair has said that "freedom of
expression is non-negotiable", in response to the Iranian Ministry of
Culture’s confirmed boycott of this week’s fair over the presence of
keynote speaker Salman Rushdie.
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Penguin Random House has acquired world rights for the
autobiography of music legend Phil Collins.
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The blueprint for an Amazon bricks and mortar bookshop in
Seattle has been revealed by GeekWire.
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Pan Macmillan has acquired the autobiography of footballer
Johan Cruyff in a "major" deal for the publisher.
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Libraries in England have reported that loans of mental health
self-help books have increased by 97% under the Reading Well Books on
Prescription scheme.
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Kirstin Innes' "acclaimed" debut novel about sex
workers in Glasgow, Fishnet,
has been awarded the Guardian's
Not the Booker Prize.
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Booker prizewinning novelist James Kelman has signed world
rights to his new book Dirt
Road with Canongate.
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Bonnier Publishing has acquired two books from debut novelist
Alex Caan.
Walliams tops chart for third consecutive week
Grandpa’s Great Escape (HarperCollins Children’s) has held the Official
Top 50 number one for a third week running, despite an onslaught of new
titles in the chart following Super Thursday. David Walliams' eighth
Children’s Fiction title sold 51,363 copies for £310,525 last week
according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market, 25% down on the
previous week’s 68,741 copies sold but exactly 60 copies up on its
debut week in the chart at the end of September.
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