Latest news from The Bookseller including 'Cursed Child' pre-orders indicate 'biggest book launch in 10 years'

'Cursed Child' pre-orders indicate 'biggest book launch in 10 years' The release of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript later this week is set to be the biggest book launch since the release of the seventh Harry Potter title nearly a decade ago, according to Waterstones.

Dubray opens refurbished flagship shop Irish bookseller Dubray has opened the doors to its newly refurbished flagship shop on Dublin’s Grafton Street.

Amy Lloyd wins Daily Mail/PRH first novel contest Amy Lloyd, 30, from Cardiff has won the Daily Mail and Penguin Random House’s First Novel Competition for her novel Red River.

Orion's Forrester to become David Higham literary agent Orion Fiction’s senior commissioning editor Jemima Forrester is moving to David Higham Associates to become a literary agent.

Hutchinson wins auction for Labour's Jess Phillips Hutchinson has acquired Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth by Labour MP Jess Phillips, following a "heated" six-way auction.

James, Bolton and 'Galbraith' among Dead Good Reader Award winners Peter James, Sharon Bolton and "Robert Galbraith" were among the authors honoured at the second annual Dead Good Reader Awards 2016 at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate.

Children’s literature magazine gets the 'Scoop' Authors including Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer and Chris Riddell are among contributors to a new children’s magazine about literature and illustration.

Hammond indicates post-Brexit China deal Britain's new chancellor Philip Hammond has said he can “definitely” envision a free trade deal with China once the UK has left the European Union.

Booksellers launch YA subscription book club Kate Morris-Double and Libby Harris, who met working at the independent bookshop Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, have launched a YA fiction book club.

Yellow Jersey to publish six George Plimpton sports 'classics' Yellow Jersey Press is publishing six classics of sports writing by founder of The Paris Review George Plimpton to mark the 50th anniversary of Paper Lion (Hachette), an American football book that "set the bar for participatory sports journalism".

Stratford Literary Festival and IPG plan picture book competition The Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and the Independent Publishers Guild are partnering on a new children’s picture book competition.

Hartswood Films acquires TV rights to Louise Candlish thriller Hartswood Films, the studio behind BBC1 success "Sherlock", has acquired television rights to The Sudden Departure of the Frasers by Louise Candlish.