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Two Roads has acquired two novels by actress and ex-"Blue
Peter" presenter Janet Ellis in a deal done just before the London
Book Fair.
Meanwhile Chatto & Windus, Hodder & Stoughton,
Serpent's Tail and Penguin Press are among the other publishers announcing
pre-LBF deals.
Lisa Highton, publisher at John Murray imprint Two Roads,
bought UK rights to Janet Ellis’ first novels from Gordon Wise at Curtis
Brown. The books, the first of which is A
Little Learning; Or, The Butcher’s Hook, were both submitted
under a pseudonym.
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Showrooming is just a “genteel form of shoplifting” author
David Nicholls told an audience at the London Book Fair Digital Minds
Conference this morning (13th April).
Giving a keynote speech at the digital event ahead of the
fair's official start tomorrow (14th April), Nicholls spoke of the
importance of physical bookshops, and criticized the practice of
discovering a title in a bookshop only to buy it online instead, known as
showrooming.
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The British Museum Press is understood to be preparing to hand
over frontlist and recent backlist titles to another publisher, ahead of
closing down its book publishing operations.
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A book of condolence for Ion Trwein will be opened at London
Book Fair.
Trewin, who was literary director of the Booker Prize
Foundation, died last week aged 71 months after being diagnosed
with untreatable cancer.
Visitors to London Book Fair will be able to sign a book of
condolence at the reception desk of the Orion/Hachette stand, number 6 C50,
from Tuesday 14th April to Thursday 16th April.
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English PEN and the author Salman Rushdie are calling for the
release of South African novelist Zainub Priya Dala, who is in a mental
institution in Durban.
At a literary event at a school in March, Dala praised the
works of Rushdie. A day later, she was accosted by three men while she was
in her car, said English PEN. They placed a knife to her throat and hit her
face with a brick. English PEN said Dala believed she would have been
stabbed had a minibus taxi not pulled into the vacant lot where the attack took
place.
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Stoner was originally published in the US in
April 1965 to little fanfare.
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Carlton Books has announced the seven official Rugby World Cup
(RWC) titles it is releasing this summer as the competition’s official
publisher.
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Bestselling author Irvine Welsh has urged bookshops to evolve
into “cultural cafés” to survive.
Speaking to The
Bookseller ahead of a tour of UK and Irish bookshops to promote
his latest novel, A
Decent Ride (Jonathan Cape), Welsh said: “The state of affairs
of bookshops [in the US] is as it is in the UK: a lot of independents here
are struggling over the rise of e-books.
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Independent Centum Books will this May publish a series of
titles that tie-in with the "Minions" film, after signing a
licensing deal with Universal.
"Minions" is the net film in the Despicable Me
franchise, produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment,
and tells the tale of what happens when the Minions decide to start a new
life in Antarctica. It will be released in the UK in July.
The book agreement was brokered between Centum and licensing
agent CPLG, acting on behalf of Universal Partnerships & Licensing.
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Penguin Random House Children’s UK and The Wild Rumpus, a
social enterprise that organises family arts events, are coordinating a
mass-reading of Maurice Sendak’s Where
the Wild Things Are (RHCP).
Groups of people across the UK will come together at 11am on
Saturday 13th June to read the picture book. This will be led by
three large, public events in London, Manchester and Birmingham.
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Dame Margaret Drabble and Nobel Laureates Günter Grass and
Elfride Jelinek are among over 1,000 writers supporting PEN’s call for
greater protection for refugees in Europe.
Tomorrow (14th April), a delegation including English PEN, PEN
International and German PEN, will meet the president of the European
Parliament, Martin Schulz, in Brussels to deliver the appeal officially.
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