Book sales bounce back as lockdown eases
News - BooksellingThursday, 02 July 2020
Re-opening independent book shops help drive weekly sales value up 9% on equivalent week in 2019
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Kate Abbey steps up as Bath Festivals' head of literature planning
News - FestivalsThursday, 02 July 2020
Abbey takes role on interim basis to cover Madeline Toy's maternity leave
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RNIB Bookshare passes half a million books milestone
News - BooksThursday, 02 July 2020
Accessible book service from the Royal National Institute of Blind People now supported by over 800 publishers
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MPS takes over HighWire
News - AcademicThursday, 02 July 2020
Academic publishing platform providers come together: 'HighWire will be operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary, retaining its brand, product suite and delivery...
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Ellan Rankin wins 2020 Carmelite Picture Book Prize
News - PrizesThursday, 02 July 2020
Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) announces Cambridge School of Art student as the winner of the fifth Carmelite Picture Book Prize
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Kritika Pandey wins 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
News - PrizesWednesday, 01 July 2020
'Haunting story of forbidden love in contemporary India' takes 'world's most global literature prize'
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Nigel Wyman promoted to top sales and marketing role at Gardners
News - BooksellingWednesday, 01 July 2020
Amalgamation of sales and marketing divisions sees Wyman appointed as sales and marketing director from today
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Graphic novel wins Wodehouse Prize for the first time
News - PrizesWednesday, 01 July 2020
Matthew Dooley takes the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with his debut graphic novel Flake (Jonathan Cape)
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July Children's Book of the Month revealed
News - ChildrenWednesday, 01 July 2020
BA announces The Diddle That Dummed by Kes Gray and Fred Blunt as its Children’s Book of the Month for July after three-month pause in award scheme
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News - Books
Free copies of New Daughters of Africa for schoolsWednesday, 01 July 2020
Margaret Busby and Myriad Editions team up with The Black Curriculum to donate 500 copies to schools nationwide
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