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Joanna Trollope is to move to Pan Macmillan, after being
published by Transworld for more than 20 years.
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Canongate experienced a "difficult and dispiriting"
2014 in which its turnover dropped 24% to £7.9m.
In financial results posted on Companies House
for the year ending December 2014, Jamie Byng, Canongate's c.e.o, said
the financial performance of the business had been "very poor”,
blaming the underperformance of the company's key autumn titles. However, the
company said 2015 had "started well" with the publisher beating
its half-year budget target.
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Jonathan Buckley has won the £15,000 BBC National Short
Story Award for ‘Briar Road’.
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Iran has threatened to boycott 2015's Frankfurt Book
Fair taking place next week (14th-18th October), due to organisers’
selection of Salman Rushdie as a keynote speaker.
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Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has today released a new book
where the genders of the two main characters Edward Cullen and Bella Swan
are reversed, Life and
Death (Little, Brown).
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David Walliams has held onto the Official Top 50 number one
spot for the second straight week, notching up his best-ever single week of
sales.
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Picador is to publish a new novel by Jessie Burton called The Muse in July
2016.
Set in 1930s Spain and 1960s London, The Muse is the story
of a young Caribbean immigrant, a bohemian artist and the mysterious
painting that connects them across the decades.
Francesca Main at Picador acquired the new novel in a two-book
deal with The
Miniaturist in March 2013.
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Watkins Media has purchased Cygnus Book Club, adding it to the
company’s portfolio which includes publishing imprints.
Watkins, which
bought Watkins, Nourish, Angry Robot from Osprey last year and which
will soon launch an imprint called Repeater books, also owns the Watkins
Bookshop in Cecil Court, three magazines, and a range of digital platforms.
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YA author Louise O’Neill is moving to Quercus’ adult imprint
with her editor Niamh
Mulvey, who took on the role of senior commissioning editor of the
adult list last month.
Mulvey signed world rights to two more books from O’Neill in a
“significant deal” with Rachel Conway of Georgina Capel Associates.
The titles of the books are yet to be confirmed but Quercus
said they will still have “YA and crossover appeal”.
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Saudi blogger and activist Raif Badawi will share the 2015 PEN
Pinter Prize with British poet, journalist and literary critic James
Fenton.
Badawi was named the 2015 International Writer of Courage,
selected by Fenton from a shortlist of international cases of concern
supported by English PEN, during a public event held this evening at the
British Library in London.
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Watkins is set to publish a new series of books from
YouTube "sensation" Cosmic Kids Yoga.
The internet “phenomenon” showcase their “incredibly” popular
yoga routines for children on YouTube and are the number one kids’ yoga
brand worldwide, with nearly 50,000 subscribers and average viewing figures
for each month reaching 150,000 hits.
The show, which offers monthly 'yoga adventures', a 'posture
of the week', a range of relaxation meditations and other fun activities,
is aired to children across the world and is used in thousands of schools
every day.
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Deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson will address United, We Publish, an
evening of workshops hosted by Unite and BookMachine.
Watson will discuss his role in exposing the phone-hacking
scandal at News International and his book Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the
Corruption of Britain (Allen Lane).
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