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LATEST NEWS Zoë Ball to host TV Book Club A new TV book club hosted by Zoë Ball is launching on ITV in June. Angie Thomas wins Waterstones Children’s Book Prize US author Angie Thomas has been crowned the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2018 for her debut YA novel, The Hate U Give (Walker Books). Honeyman and Rooney make Desmond Elliott longlist Gail Honeyman, Sally Rooney and Preti Taneja are among the "powerful array of distinctive voices" on this year's Desmond Elliott Prize longlist.  Pottermore confirms 'small number' of redundancies Pottermore has confirmed that there has been a "small number of redundancies" at the Harry Potter website as part of a shift in strategy for the site. Stanfords may have to map out new home for flagship Bookshops are finding it harder to justify spots in prime retail locations, business chiefs have warned, as rising rents and business rates continue to be a scourge of the high street. Dharker to be LBF's first Poet of the Fair The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced it is running a series of seminars on poetry at this year's event and its first ever “Poet of the Fair” will be Imtiaz Dharker. Weekly E-Ranking: The Honeyman isn't over Eleanor Oliphant’s Honeyman period is nowhere near over: the novel racked up a sixth successive Weekly E-Book Ranking number one in the seven days to 10th March. 4th Estate buys memoir exploring impact of sister's suicide 4th Estate will publish writer Catherine Simpson’s memoir which explores the impact of her sister’s suicide and the posthumous discovery of her diaries. International growth helps boost revenues at Scholastic Inc A strong performance from Scholastic’s International division, including the UK, helped the company increase sales 3% in the third quarter. Elizabeth is Missing green-lit for BBC1 adaptation Emma Healey’s bestselling 2015 novel Elizabeth is Missing (Viking) will be adapted by "Swallows and Amazons" screenwriter Andrea Gibb into a 90-minute film for BBC One. Rundell pens Jungle Book stories for MCB Macmillan Children’s Books will this September publish a collection of stories, based on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, by Katherine Rundell. Harrold and Gravett team up for The Afterwards Emily Gravett has signed up to illustrate A F Harrold’s new novel, The Afterwards (Bloomsbury Children’s).