Unleashed, which covers Johnson’s time as mayor of London, foreign secretary and prime minister, was the bestselling book of the weekBoris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, sold 42,528 copies in its opening week after being published on 10 October, making it the bestselling book of last week.This means Johnson has outsold David Cameron’s 2019 memoir, For the Record, which sold 20,792 copies in the week it was published, though Tony Blair’s memoir, A Journey, sold 92,060 copies in its opening week. Liz Truss shifted just 2,228 copies of her memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, in its first week on sale earlier this year. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-15 14:27:52 UTC ]
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Seven Dials has acquired the "explosive" story an ordinary man who went to Syria as an international volunteer to fight alongside the Kurdish YPG against ISIS. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-04 14:20:59 UTC ]
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Mirror Books will publish new memoir about the only living sisters to have signed the Official Secrets Act during the Second World War. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-04 12:36:25 UTC ]
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William Collins has landed the “riveting and candid” memoir of Kim Darroch, Britain’s Ambassador to the US during Donald Trump’s White House reign. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-04 06:17:07 UTC ]
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For the quarter ended January 31, 2020, John Wiley reported that revenue rose 4% over last year’s third quarter, to $467.1 million, and net income increased 1.4%, to $35.4 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Nearly three months to the day after the completion of the ViacomCBS merger, the mass media company has indicated its intentions to sell Simon & Schuster, one of the U.S.'s Big Five publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer known for #MeToo investigations – whose sister says Allen abused her – suggests he can no longer work with HachetteRonan Farrow has distanced himself from the publisher of his latest book after the company announced plans to publish a memoir by his father, Woody Allen, saying the move... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-03-04 03:04:40 UTC ]
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ViacomCBS is planning to sell Simon & Schuster, it was announced today (4th March). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 20:59:41 UTC ]
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Dylan Farrow slammed Woody Allen's upcoming memoir, "Apropos of Nothing," calling it "deeply unsettling." She accused her adoptive father of sexual abuse in the 1990s. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-03 18:48:28 UTC ]
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HarperNonFiction has won a six-way auction for the "unflinching" memoir of Vanessa Frake, the former governor of one of Britain’s most notorious prisons. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 05:40:46 UTC ]
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Transworld has pre-empted a memoir by Jewish Dutch resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivor Selma van der Perre. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 21:39:29 UTC ]
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The director allegedly sexually abused his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7 years old. Continue reading at HuffPost
[ HuffPost | 2020-03-02 21:29:55 UTC ]
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A memoir by Woody Allen, rumored for years and once thought unpublishable in the #MeToo era, is coming out next month. Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced Monday... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2020-03-02 19:41:59 UTC ]
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Developing story: The States' Macmillan and HarperCollins pull out of London Book Fair over the weekend, along with the Hachette US rights team. The post Coronavirus: LBF Says It’s a Go for Now; US Macmillan, Hachette Sales and HarperCollins Exit appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-03-02 12:52:26 UTC ]
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Author Milly Johnson collected the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award tonight as HarperCollins triumphed to win three awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 12:00:27 UTC ]
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Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions are launching The Novel Prize, a $10,000 biennial award for book-length fiction by published or unpublished authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 09:34:44 UTC ]
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Lisa Kleypas has the #10 book in the country with ‘Chasing Cassandra.’ Plus Simone St. James checks into ‘The Sun Down Motel,’ and historian Alexis Coe reminds readers why ‘You Never Forget Your First.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
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This week's book events are fully locavore: Lynell George's essays on the city's rich cultural tapestry; Erin Khar's memoir of teen addiction in the mid-1980s; Thomas Pynchon's Cali counterculture noir; a debut novel from Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz; and a visit from Pod Save... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-28 19:52:47 UTC ]
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Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport has attracted much attention for its length, but one publisher believes the spoken word might be its perfect mediumFinishing a good book should leave you feeling bereft for a little while, but it’s rare to leave a novel with your brain vibrating at a different... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-02-28 14:00:18 UTC ]
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Redesign inadvertently breaches international humanitarian law. Plus, News Corp unruffled by consumer campaign on climateThe ABC has been forced to ditch a new logo it designed for the relaunch of Q+A with Hamish Macdonald after inadvertently breaching the international humanitarian law that... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-02-28 01:08:37 UTC ]
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Lovely launches, showbiz showcases and publisher parties are what's up in this weeks round-up in the Picture of the Week, browse them below: Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-28 00:36:50 UTC ]
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