Pan Macmillan & Waterstones named publisher and bookseller of the year in London

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Pan Mac and Waterstones are stars at BIA A “standout” Pan Macmillan and a resurgent Waterstones were two of the big winners at the Bookseller Industry Awards 2015, taking home the Publisher and Retailer of the Year prizes, respectively.  Sam Husain, the recently retired c.e.o. of Foyles, was honoured with the BA Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Book Trade, while Foyles received The Bookseller Special Award for its move to 107 Charing Cross Road.

Kingsnorth's 'The Wake' is BIA Book of the Year Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake, published by crowd-funding platform Unbound, has been named the inaugural Book of the Year at the Bookseller Industry Awards 2015. The book is written in re-imagined old English and set in 1066, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, and won the Gordon Burn Prize. It was crowd-funded by Unbound after being picked up by Unbound founder and publisher John Mitchinson.

Jobs consultation at Connect Books Connect Books is consulting with 12 people in its Bradford office as the company continues to improve the “efficiency and flexibility” of its library supply service.  Bertrams, which supplies libraries on behalf of Connect Books, has headquarters in Norwich but also an office in Bradford which supplies customers service and business support to the company’s library service.

Mukherjee wins Encore Award Neel Mukherjee has won the £10,000 Encore Award for his novel The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus).

New summer paperback for The Miniaturist Picador is to produce a new summer paperback edition of Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist for publication on 16th July. The first paperback version was published in January. The July edition will be the second special edition for the book, following the Waterstones hardback last year, and will sport the novel's fourth UK cover.

Transworld wins auction for Gárdos love story Transworld has acquired a post-Holocaust love story by Hungarian author Péter Gárdos, said to be "the talk of London Book Fair", in a nine-way auction. Jane Lawson, editorial director at Doubleday, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Australia New Zealand, for Fever at Dawn, in a deal with Sarah Lutyens of Lutyens and Rubinstein, on behalf of Michael Heyward of Text Publishing.

Whittingdale in culture role John Whittingdale [pictured] has been appointed as the new secretary of state for culture, media and sport, taking over from Sajid Javid. Newly returned prime minister David Cameron has given Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, the brief that includes the arts and libraries. Javid moves to the position of secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, taking over from Vince Cable, who lost his seat in last week's election.

Honno book wins Bread & Roses award A title from Welsh press Honno has won the Bread & Roses award for radical publishing. Here We Stand: Women Changing the World, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones, is a collection of interviews and articles in which 17 British women campaigners talk about their activism. The women have organised, marched, joined protest camps, opened refuges, smashed up military equipment and gone undercover.

Discover Centre to launch Rosen exhibition The Discover Children’s Story Centre in Stratford, East London, will this October launch an exhibition based on the works of Michael Rosen. The "Michael Rosen’s Bear Hunt, Chocolate Cake and Bad Things" interactive exhibition will be based on Rosen’s children’s books and visitors will be able to walk into immersive exhibits inspired by We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Walker Books), The Book of Bad Things (Puffin) and Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed (Bloomsbury Children’s), as well as his poem Chocolate Cake.

Blink apologises for Alfie app mishap Publisher Blink has apologised for the cancellation of the Alfie Deyes “Golden Ticket” competition that was intended to run this weekend. The competition was supposed to give 10 Deyes fans the opportunity to meet him by scanning their copies of The Pointless Book 2 with the linked app to see if they had won a golden ticket. The number of entries to the competition caused the app to overload, leading to hundreds of viewers being informed incorrectly that they had won.

Egmont appoints new magazine director Egmont Publishing UK has hired Emma Fogden as the new editorial director of the magazines division. She replaces Sam Robinson, who left the team last month. Fogden, who joins Egmont from content creation company Edenco, will report to Gillian Laskier, m.d. of the magazines division.

Hill, Cleeves, Billingham on Dagger in the Library longlist Authors including Susan Hill, Ann Cleeves, Mark Billingham and Peter James have been longlisted for the CWA 2015 Dagger in the Library award. The prize is give for an author’s whole body of work to date, rather than a single title. The longlist for the award, which is sponsored by Penguin Random House’s crime community Dead Good, has been compiled for readers, who voted online for their three favourite authors. A total of 2,844 votes were cast, a 105% increase from 2014.