News

• Goodbye Europe, hello Orion anthology

  News - NonFiction

  Orion recruits 46 authors to pen essays for Goodbye Europe, an anthology of reflections on Brexit and what leaving Europe means
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• British Council and European bank found translated fiction prize

  News - Prizes

  €20,000 for best novel translated into English; submissions close 31 October
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• Victoria Hislop picks up Specsavers Bestseller awards

  News - Prizes

  Bestselling author wins Platinum for The Island, and three golds
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• Clinton lights up charts

  News - Books

  Hillary Clinton election memoir What Happened sells 167,000 hardbacks in US in first week; predicted to top UK chart this week
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• The BookBrunch Interview: Dean Drew, sales and marketing director of Blackwell's

  News - Interviews

  Eyeing growth outside academia, the historic bookseller is courting the wider trade market and changing its approach - so much so it’s calling itself a ‘140-year-old start...
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• Readers demand more Dan Freedman

  News - Children

  Author of successful football series pens new postscript as Scholastic releases new edition
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• Golden Egg Academy hatches north

  News - Children

  First regional branch starts in Manchester next year
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• John Lennon picture book published

  News - Children

  Publication day today for Imagine, the first picture book set to John Lennon's lyrics, with foreword from Yoko Ono; royalties to Amnesty
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• Freeman's picks 29 writers to watch

  News - Publishing

  John Freeman's The Future of New Writing published in October by Grove Press; an 'aesthetic manifesto for our times'
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• IPG conference: are you a brand?

  News - Publishing

  Saatchi & Saatchi chief gives keynote at guild's largest ever autumn conference
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