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Paula Hawkins launches R&J summer book club Paula Hawkins' bestseller The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) will launch this year's Richard and Judy summer book club, with W H Smith also unveiling the club's "fresh" new look. Pan Mac scores hat-trick with three number ones Pan Macmillan has scored a hat-trick this week by taking three number one positions across fiction and non-fiction in the Nielsen BookScan bestseller charts. 'Galbraith' claims third straight number one Robert Galbraith’s Career of Evil (Sphere) has defeated the Star Wars Expert Guide (Dorling Kindersley) to take the Official UK Top 50 number one spot. Flat sales for S&S in first quarter Simon & Schuster (S&S) has reported flat global sales in its first quarter of 2016 at $145m, matching those from 2015. Alex T Smith's Claude to be Disney Junior animation series Alex T Smith's bestselling Claude books are to be adapted into an animated series for Disney Junior EMEA. Calder to join Harlequin as first in-house publicist Harlequin has appointed current Orion Books publicity manager Sophie Calder as its first in-house publicist. Teach Yourself develops 'Language Hacking' series Teach Yourself, an imprint of Hodder Education specialising in self-instruction, is collaborating with a high-profile language blogger to create a "groundbreaking" new series called Language Hacking. Baileys pop-up 'book bar' at new Waterstones The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction is opening its first-ever pop-up "book bar" at Waterstones’ new Tottenham Court Road store from Monday 16th May. Mills & Boon partners with Gransnet Romance publisher Mills & Boon has struck a new relationship with Gransnet, the UK's online network for grandparents. New J M Coetzee novel to Harvill Secker Harvill Secker is publishing a new novel by Man Booker and Nobel Prize-winner J M Coetzee in September. Folio features strongly in V&A Illustration Awards Three of the artists shortlisted for this year’s V&A Illustration Awards have been nominated for their work on Folio Society editions. Neil Gaiman does London event with Audrey Niffenegger Author Neil Gaiman will do a rare public event in London to celebrate his new non-fiction collection, The View from the Cheap Seats (Headline), together with Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife (Vintage).