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Mog’s Christmas return gives Kerr her first top spot Judith Kerr’s Mog has pounced on the Official Top 50 number one spot, as Mog’s Christmas Calamity (HarperCollins Children’s) sold 74,453 copies for £223,344, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.

Atkinson, Enright and Gale shortlisted for Costa Book Awards Costa has revealed its shortlists for the 2015 Costa Book Awards, featuring 12 women and eight men, with authors spanning an age range of 27–68 across its five award categories: novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children’s.

Oneworld's Ford wins FT McKinsey Business Book award Martin Ford is the winner of the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award following a “unanimous verdict” from the judging panel.

Gibb 'challenges' publishers to give low cost books to schools Schools minister Nick Gibb, today challenged publishers to make 100 classic books available at low cost, so all pupils have the chance to read them.

Sylvia Day's One With You out in April Sylvia Day’s fifth and final novel in the Crossfire series, One with You, is to be published by Michael Joseph on 5th April next year.

Unbound launches debut novel from Andy Hamilton Unbound has launched The Star Witness, the first novel from “legendary” comedy scriptwriter and performer, Andy Hamilton, on its crowdfunding site.

UK rights available for Charlie Hebdo editor's manifesto UK and Commonwealth rights for the Charlie Hebdo editor’s posthumous manifesto, Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia and the True Enemies of Free Expression, have yet to be sold, it has been confirmed.

Morrissey and Jong nominated for Bad Sex awards Novels by Morrissey, Erica Jong and Richard Bausch are amongst the eight-strong shortlist for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

Piatkus signs two by Wattpad author Moseley Piatkus has signed two books by Norfolk-based author Kirsty Moseley, who first published her work on Wattpad.

Benson and Berry win Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Bright Travellers (Jonathan Cape) by Fiona Benson and Black Country (Chatto & Windus) by Liz Berry have been announced as the joint winners of the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

Hodder pre-empts debut author's YA fantasy trilogy Hodder & Stoughton has acquired Elly Blake’s young adult fantasy trilogy, the Frostblood Saga, in a pre-empt deal.

Matt Haig embarks on Christmas book tour Author Matt Haig will this week take part in a “500-mile Sleigh Bell Dash” tour of bookshops in the UK to mark publication of his Christmas children’s story A Boy Called Christmas (Canongate).