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Humour books boost 'good' first half for WH Smith W H Smith has reported a 4% rise in group profits for the six months to end February 2017, with spoof humour titles the key driver of sales in its books business.

Enright, Yanagihara, Seethaler on Dublin Literary Award shortlist Irish Laureate for Fiction Anne Enright is shortlisted for the €100,000 (£84,932.00) International Dublin Literary Award, alongside authors from 10 other countries including Angola, Mozambique and Nigeria.

'Night School' takes Lee Child to 16th number one Lee Child has tussled his way into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot for a 16th time, with Night School (Bantam) shifting 36,151 copies for £144,387, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.

Newly formed RBmedia buys Audiobooks.com Leicester-based audiobook and large print publisher W F Howes is now part of a new umbrella company, RBmedia, formed by private equity firm Shamrock Capital and based in Maryland, USA.

Extension plans for British Library The British Library is to get a 100,000 sq ft extension, as well as a new entrance and more exhibition space, with "new facilities" for the writers and academics who use the site.

Fielding, Stibbe, Hiaasen up for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones’s Baby (Jonathan Cape) bags the author her third shortlisting for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.

YouTube 'Chicken Connoisseur' signs with Blink "Chicken Connoisseur" Elijah Quashie, best known for his YouTube show "The Pengest Munch", is publishing his first book with Blink Publishing.

MacLehose reveals UK title for Millennium V The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye is to be the English title of the second book in the continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series by Swedish writer David Lagercrantz.

Young people's library usage trends revealed in Carnegie report Library usage among young people has increased in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales, but is down in England and Scotland, a new survey has found.

Trapeze's 'After Wife' sells in European pre-empts Rights to Cass Hunter's high-concept love story The After Wife, publishing with Orion imprint Trapeze in April 2018, have sold in three deals across Europe.

Zadie Smith adaptation gets BAFTA nods The adaptation of Zadie Smith's NW (Hamish Hamilton) has been nominated for two BAFTAs.