David Walliams is the Christmas Number One

David Walliams’ Bad Dad (HarperCollins) has claimed the Christmas Number One, selling 60,700 copies for £376,150 through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette tracks uplift in BAME staff numbers but pay gap widens

Hachette UK has published its second ethnicity pay gap report, showing the number of BAME employees at the company has increased but the mean average pay gap between them and their white colleagues has widened. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 04:28:27 UTC ]
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Publishers cut ties with David Starkey after 'abhorrent' comments

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 at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-03 13:56:37 UTC ]
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David Starkey dropped by publisher and university positions after racist remarks

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 at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-07-03 11:40:12 UTC ]
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Avon nets Pine's Christmas Killer

Avon Books has netted The Christmas Killer, the first title in a new series by Alex Pine. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-02 00:55:21 UTC ]
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Indie bookshop David's bought by staff

David’s Bookshop in Hertfordshire has been bought by its staff and remodelled as a John Lewis-style employee ownership trust. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-01 19:30:47 UTC ]
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Dillsworth joins David Higham Associates

Elise Dillsworth is joining David Higham Associates as an associate agent later this month. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-01 16:43:48 UTC ]
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Hirons in the fire: skincare influencer beats Bolton to charts number one

Blogger and influencer Caroline Hirons' Skincare (HQ) shifted just under 33,000 copies through Nielsen BookScan in its first week on sale to become just the second fashion and beauty title to claim the UK's Official Top 50 number one⁠—and the first for over 18 years. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-30 16:39:05 UTC ]
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Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity

Adjmi was raised in a house where he had no choice but to fit in, which means he had no choice but to lie. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-30 14:49:16 UTC ]
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Hermione Lee made chair of David Cohen Prize

Dame Hermione Lee has been named the new chair of the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 07:50:04 UTC ]
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Misery and Megalomania: How David Adjmi Became a Playwright

His new memoir “Lot Six” traces the Syrian-Jewish enclave that spawned him, the instructor who unnerved him, and the biting comedy that made his name. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-06-24 17:09:30 UTC ]
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Audiobook of Theatre for Dreamers debuts new music by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd

Husband and wife duo Polly Samson and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd have teamed up to work on the audiobook of Samson's novel A Theatre for Dreamers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-11 22:58:40 UTC ]
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BookExpo, BookCon Online Drew Strong Numbers

ReedPop moved BookExpo and BookCon online last week when it was forced to cancel the in-person events because of the pandemic. The most popular attraction was BookConline's Sunday session, which generated nearly 240,000 views. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Walliams returns with World's Worst Parents

David Walliams and Tony Ross are releasing another collection of stories, The World's Worst Parents, with HarperCollins Children's Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 23:12:15 UTC ]
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'Legacy-defining' David Attenborough book to launch new Ebury imprint

Ebury is launching a new environmental imprint with a “legacy-defining” book by David Attenborough, A Life On Our Planet. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-28 10:16:04 UTC ]
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Slime scores hat-trick for Walliams in charts top spot

David Walliams' Slime (HarperCollins) has scored a third week running in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with Nielsen BookScan once again unable to provide volume or value figures. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 15:39:28 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow gets David Melling hat-trick

Nosy Crow has acquired three new picture books by Hugless Douglas author David Melling. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-27 13:28:14 UTC ]
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Andersen to publish second YA novel from Sally Nicholls with 'bumper' Christmas campaign

Andersen Press will publish Sally Nicholls' The Silent Stars Go By in November.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-27 07:51:23 UTC ]
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David Fickling to rush out neuroscientist's illustrated guide to Covid-19

David Fickling Books is publishing a guide by neuroscientist and science writer Ben Martynoga to "de-mystify the coronavirus for readers of all ages". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 20:36:37 UTC ]
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Walliams' Slime slithers to the charts' top spot

David Walliams' Slime (HarperCollins Children's) has leapfrogged Mrs Hinch's The Little Book of Lists (Michael Joseph) at the top of the UK Official Top 50 through Nielsen BookScan's TCM, for the comedian-turned-author's 57th week atop the chart. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-14 13:04:11 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Walliams Slimes into the top spot

David Walliams' Slime (HarperCollins Children's) has ended the reign of Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) in the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction number one spot, as Mrs Hinch's The Little Book of Lists (Michael Joseph) sweeps into the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction top spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-08 01:38:42 UTC ]
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