HarperCollins has defended David Walliams after food writer Jack Monroe claimed his children's books were “sneering classist fatshaming grim nonsense”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 10:29:08 UTC ]
HarperCollins has landed the life story of Siya Kolisi, Springboks captain and star of South Africa’s 2019 World Cup-winning rugby team. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 05:01:43 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books will publish Sophie Cleverly's second middle-grade series, The Violet Veil Mysteries, illustrated by Hannah Peck. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 15:45:28 UTC ]
HarperCollins says it will no longer publish books by historian David Starkey and is reviewing his backlist, describing his recent comments on slavery as “abhorrent”. Vintage and Hodder & Stoughton have also said they will not publish further books from him. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-03 13:56:37 UTC ]
HarperCollins will no longer publish books by the historian and is reviewing his backlist after he said ‘slavery was not genocide’HarperCollins has dropped David Starkey as an author, saying that the racist views the bestselling historian expressed in a recent interview were “abhorrent”.On... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-03 11:40:12 UTC ]
HarperCollins is releasing an unabridged audiobook of J R R Tolkien's The Hobbit, read by Andy Serkis who starred as Gollum in the blockbuster movies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-01 17:52:05 UTC ]
A “marginalized people’s history of labor in the U.S.” goes to One Signal for six figures, HarperCollins takes on a book about Prince Harry and Prince William, Willie Nelson and his sister sell a memoir to Random House, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has triumphed in a heated six-publisher auction for the debut novel by Nita Prose, the pen name for vice president and editorial director at Simon & Schuster in Canada, Nita Pronovost. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-25 11:27:10 UTC ]
HarperCollins UK has brought back all the staff it placed on furlough at the start of lockdown and will pay all their salaries itself rather than claiming it back from the government, the company has announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 02:30:13 UTC ]
HarperCollins has acquired world all-language rights to two more books by Why Mummy Drinks author Gill Sims. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-11 11:16:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has promoted Kimberley Young (pictured) to the role of executive publisher for HarperFiction, with responsibility also for digital-first division One More Chapter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-10 12:12:17 UTC ]
Publishers are currently exploring what a return to work will look like, with HarperCollins this week allowing staff to come into the office "for essential reasons" and Hachette and Simon & Schuster confirming a provisional return come September. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-09 22:45:56 UTC ]
David Walliams and Tony Ross are releasing another collection of stories, The World's Worst Parents, with HarperCollins Children's Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 23:12:15 UTC ]
Fitness guru Joe Wicks is leaving Bluebird for HarperCollins, signing a multi-book deal for adult lifestyle and children's titles with the publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 00:41:19 UTC ]
HarperCollins' director of growth and analytics Alvar Jover and its group digital director Joanna Surman have been appointed to join the publisher's UK executive committee. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-02 13:37:31 UTC ]
On June 1st, a group of book publishers—Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, all member companies of the Association of American Publishers—filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive, whose “National Emergency... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-01 17:48:23 UTC ]
Alex Beecroft, formerly HarperCollins UK’s director of corporate development, has been appointed m.d. of Collins Learning. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 04:28:42 UTC ]
HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan have said they won't attend Frankfurt Book Fair's physical event, scheduled to take place in October, while other UK publishers and agents say they are uncertain about whether to go. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-28 12:40:55 UTC ]
HarperCollins has landed a book by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution recounting some of its most dramatic rescues. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-22 01:34:27 UTC ]
As part of its annual Giving scheme, HarperCollins parent firm News Corp has donated £100,000 to four UK and Irish charities focused on supporting communities struggling during the coronavirus crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 18:51:43 UTC ]