Fourth Estate bags Reed Turrell's Please Yourself

Fourth Estate has bagged Please Yourself, an “inspirational, wise and forgiving” book from psychotherapist Emma Reed Turrell. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-22 00:47:23 UTC ]
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McKenzie signing for 4th Estate

Fourth Estate has signed a satirical novel by Elizabeth McKenzie for publication in January 2016. Commissioning editor Anna Kelly signed UK and Commonwealth rights to The Portable Veblen in a deal with Anthony Goff at David Higham Associates, on behalf of Emily Forland at Brandt & Hochman.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Garnons-Williams moves to 4th Estate

HarperCollins has appointed Helen Garnons-Williams as publishing director of 4th Estate, moving from her role as publishing director at Bloomsbury. Meanwhile, at Bloomsbury, Alexa von Hirschberg has been promoted from commissioning editor to senior fiction editor. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alexander McCall Smith bags comic fiction prize

Alexander McCall Smith has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, published by Birlinn imprint Polygon. This is the first time McCall Smith, the author of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series published by Little, Brown, has appeared on the comic... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Goebbels estate sues Random House Germany

The estate of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s minister for propaganda during the Second World War, is suing publisher Random House Germany for using an extract from his diaries. The biography Goebbels, published in Germany in 2010 under the Siedler imprint, is by Peter Longerich, professor of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Perry to design BAMB tote bag

Grayson Perry will design a collector’s edition tote bag for this year’s Books Are My Bag (BAMB) campaign. The Turner Prize-winning British artist’s design will be revealed at the BAMB launch on 8th October, which is also “Super Thursday”, the day on which a large number of publishers’ key... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion bags Alan Partridge

Orion has bought a book by Alan Partridge, which will be written “with help” from Steve Coogan and Rob and Neil Gibbons. A follow up to I, Partridge (HarperCollins), the title will be a collection of diary entries, letters, “think pieces” and programme and business ideas. Non-fiction... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber bags O'Brien

Faber has signed Edna O’Brien’s first novel in 10 years. Creative director Lee Brackstone signed UK and Commonwealth rights in The Little Red Chairs from Ed Victor, and will publish in February 2016, simultaneously with Little, Brown in the US. The book sees a wanted war criminal settle in a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fourth Millennium book cover revealed

The fourth book in the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series will be called The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Quercus today (31st March) revealed the title and the UK cover for the book, which has been written by Swedish author David Lagercrantz, co-author of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BAMB to release Charlie and Lola children's bag

Charlie and Lola, the characters in Lauren Child’s bestselling series, are set to appear on children’s tote bags as part of the industry-wide Books Are My Bag campaign this autumn. Author and illustrator Child will be designing the new bag, which will hit participating shops from 8th October... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic UK partners Brown Bag Films

Publisher Scholastic UK today announced a deal to develop children’s content with animation studio Brown Bag Films. The partnership is a “first-look” deal, meaning Scholastic will have the first chance to develop Brown Bag content into books, and will share upcoming titles with the studio for... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Russell Brand voted world's fourth most influential thinker

Comedian voted on to Prospect magazine’s annual list, topped by economist Thomas Piketty, after year that saw him publish a book advocating the eradication of the nation stateThere are few figures who make the nation’s blood boil – either with sheer frustration or the spirit of revolution –... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Memphis Publisher Sues Salinger Estate

The Devault-Graves Agency is claiming that the J.D. Salinger Trust is thwarting the publisher's attempts to sell a collection of Salinger short stories abroad. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp. Touts Print Ads, But Books, Real Estate Are Real Winners

News Corp. continues to tout the strength of its legacy newspaper business even though most of the company's growth now stems from expansions in the real estate and book publishing markets. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books and Digital Real Estate Assets Lift News Corp Results

News Corp reported quarterly revenue and a profit just above analysts’ consensus forecast as its book publishing and real estate businesses offset dwindling print revenue. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prime fuels Amazon fourth quarter profit

An increase in Prime membership subscriptions helped Amazon to a fourth quarter profit. The e-commerce giant has been under pressure from investors to return a good result after reporting a loss for the previous two quarters of its financial year, but shares recovered yesterday (29th January)... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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H&S bags Bake-Off rights

Hodder & Stoughton has signed a two-year deal for exclusive publishing rights for "The Great British Bake Off" programme with producer Love Productions. The GBBO branded books, including The Big Book of Baking by Linda Collister and Christmas by Lizzie Kamenetzy, have previously been... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reed Elsevier revenue grows by 4%

Underlying revenue at Reed Elsevier increased 4% over the first nine months of the year, although print book sales declined.   The information company released an interim management statement yesterday (24th October) saying that although revenues in the scientific, technical and medial... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big names give backing to Books Are My Bag

Celebrities and authors including Graham Norton and Ross Kemp have thrown their weight behind the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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George Orwell estate 'appalled and wryly' amused at Amazon's 'doublespeak' (+video)

'This is about as close as one can get to the Ministry of Truth and its doublespeak: turning the facts inside out to get a piece of propaganda across,' Bill Hamilton, executor of the Orwell estate, said. Amazon recently wrote a letter criticizing publisher Hachette, with which it is engaged in a... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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George Orwell estate 'appalled and wryly' amused at Amazon's 'doublespeak'

'This is about as close as one can get to the Ministry of Truth and its doublespeak: turning the facts inside out to get a piece of propaganda across,' Bill Hamilton, executor of the Orwell estate, said. Amazon recently wrote a letter criticizing publisher Hachette, with which it is engaged in a... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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