Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 22/06/2011 - 12:07 HarperCollins has made a series of senior level promotions, with current commercial managing director Simon Johnson becoming managing director, HarperCollins, and Tom Fussell moving into the role of group commercial director. David Alford has been promoted to financial controller following the resignation of Gordon Taylor. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Jessica Hare has been promoted to agent in the Children’s Books Department at The Agency (London). Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A reader visited the Story Museum in Oxford, England to learn how the space modified its "interactive" exhibits for COVID-19 compliance. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Kishani Widyaratna, currently commissioning editor at Picador, is joining HarperCollins as editorial director for Fourth Estate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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HarperCollins has picked up two books from “utterly hilarious” self-published star Tracy Bloom. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Indie stores Mr B's, Books At The Dragon's Garden and Griffin Books (pictured) are in the running to be crowned Britain's Best Small Shop 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Craig Brown’s biographical method — combining fragments, lists, excerpts, quotes and flights of whimsy — is executed brilliantly. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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PRH imprint #Merky Books is in the running to win £1m of Channel 4 airtime after making the six-strong shortlist for the broadcaster's Diversity in Advertising Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Xiaolu Guo and D B C Pierre are among the writers shortlisted for this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, recognising the best in experimental fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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HarperCollins has snapped up The Mother Project by journalist and Sunday Times Style columnist Sophie Beresiner. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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To mark the 24th anniversary of the Fox News Channel’s debut, HarperCollins and Fox News Media have announced the creation of a new imprint that will publish a stream of books I’m sure you’ll read by Fox News personalities. If the pairing seems unexpected, it’s anything but. Rupert Murdoch, who... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson is publishing a narrative history of Tudor ladies-in-waiting, the "oft-overlooked yet hugely influential figures of the Tudor court", by Dr Nicola Clark Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Emma Layfield, Hachette Children's Group picture book development director (North), has acquired three picture books from spoken-word poet Tony Walsh as her first acquisition in her new role in Hachette's Manchester office. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. Narrator Sisi Aisha Johnson embodies all of the joy and light of fourth grader Ryan Hart in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Congratulations! Today is your day! You’re off to great places! Like a galaxy far, far away! J.J. Abrams of Star Wars fame has arrived. And he is bringing you a big surprise! Oh, The Places You’ll Go! is coming to the screen! A stranger sight you’ve never seen. He’s working with Warner Bros on... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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“Mad at the World” captures Steinbeck in the kind of nuanced and unshowy prose that suits its subject. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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The founders of Children's Book North have advised industry staffers in the north to network as they look to reduce publishing's London focus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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I suppose I knew a greenhouse wasn’t the ideal place for some of my most treasured possessions. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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I always loved giving my son a picture book rich in detail and watching him get lost in it, thereby gaining a few moments of peace and grown-up solitude—but now science is telling me I may have made him dumber.* According to a very cruel study at Carnegie Mellon University, in which researchers... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Ingram has announced that Darragh Deering has been promoted to senior manager, sales and client services, for its distribution channel Lightning Source. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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