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The retail sector could see 900,000 job losses and 74,000 shop
closures over the next decade as a result of rising costs, a report by the
British Retail Consortium has found.
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Poet Carol Ann Duffy will undertake a nationwide tour of
independent bookshops this summer to support the 10th anniversary of
Independent Bookshop Week.
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The 2016 Summer Reading Challenge will be based around Roald
Dahl 100, the celebrations marking the centenary of Dahl’s birth.
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In a Nosy Crow blog post warning about the dangers of the UK
leaving the European Union, illustrator Axel Scheffler has said there would
have been no Gruffalo without the EU.
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Literary agency Furniss Lawton is temporarily without a
permanent office following a serious fire at its Kew Bridge base last
month.
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Writers from six countries and across four continents,
including Colum McCann, Deborah Levy and Petina Gappah, make up the
12-strong longlist for the £30,000 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.
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Transworld is publishing Jilly Cooper’s new novel, Mount!, under its
imprint Bantam Press on 8th September 2016.
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Former Bloomsbury commissioning editor Bill Swainson has
signed new novels by leading international authors Javier Cercas and Juan
Gabriel Vásquez for Quercus imprint Maclehose Press.
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Hodder & Stoughton has pre-empted world rights in
a debut novel These
Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper, and one further novel.
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Hodder imprint Coronet has acquired a memoir and
self-help book chronicling a woman’s relationship with cancer.
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The Folio Society and House of Illustration yesterday
announced Alan Marks as the winner of a prize to illustrate a new edition
of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse.
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Children's indie Buster Books is set to publish a series of
colouring books based on classic children’s books, illustrated by Ann
Kronheimer.
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