HC pre-empts Norwegian bestseller 'spreading love for insects'

HarperNonFiction has pre-empted a Norwegian bestseller about insects by life scientist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Rooney strikes back with new HC book

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 14/11/2011 - 08:20 HarperCollins is publishing a new book by Wayne Rooney, having dismissed suggestions that it was on the brink of renegotiating the lucrative contract it has with the Manchester United and England striker. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC to bring Bugsy Malone back into print

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 10:58 HarperCollins Children's Books has bought world rights to the original Bugsy Malone book, which was later adapted into the much loved musical. Publisher Ann-Janine Murtagh bought rights to the novel and graphic novel directly... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnsley: Amazon and WHS key performers for HC

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 03/11/2011 - 16:14 Amazon and W H Smith are HarperCollins' strongest players in bookselling, its c.e.o. has claimed. Victoria Barnsley was speaking after the publisher's parent NewsCorp reported its third quarter results, for the three months to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jobs memoir tops bestseller lists

Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Wed, 02/11/2011 - 08:27 Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late Steve Jobs has become one of the fastest-selling hardback non-fiction books since records began. Brought forward from its original publication date of 24th November following the Apple... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC acquires Thomas Nelson

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 01/11/2011 - 09:35 HarperCollins has bought US religious publisher Thomas Nelson for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to go through by the end of the year. Thomas Nelson currently publishes the US bestseller Heaven is for Real. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC appoints Katrina Troy to head fiction

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 27/10/2011 - 08:15 HarperCollins has appointed Katrina Troy, currently head of commercial affairs for Vintage and Mainstream Publishing, as its commercial director for its fiction division. Troy will join in January 2012 and report to group... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury and HC win BMS awards

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 14:59 Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman and Darren Shan’s Ocean of Blood have won the Book Marketing Society (BMS)' seasonal adult and children’s marketing campaign awards respectively. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Ebury and HC win latest BMS awards

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 14:59 Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman and Darren Shan’s Ocean of Blood have won the BMS seasonal adult and children’s marketing campaign awards respectively. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Shining Girl Beukes lands at HC

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 21/10/2011 - 10:42 HarperCollins UK and Australia have won out in a five-way auction for hotly tipped Frankfurt Book Fair title The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. HarperFiction crime and thriller publisher Julia Wisdom, together with Shona... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Murakami in France, a Debut In Germany: International Bestsellers October, 2011

With Knopf set to release Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 this week in the U.S., the latest novel from the award-winning Japanese author was an instant bestseller in Japan and debuted at #3 in France in September. Topping the French fiction chart last month was The Passenger, the most recent thriller... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC to sell Hello Kitty dictionaries

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 18/10/2011 - 07:15 HarperCollins is planning to release a Hello Kitty branded version of its Collins Dictionaries as part of a new deal with the global brand. Richard Haines, brand manager at HarperCollins Children's Books, signed the deal with... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate Manning moves from HC to Hot Key

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 17/10/2011 - 09:18 Hot Key Books has hired HarperCollins' head of children's sales as its new sales and marketing director. Kate Manning will join the publisher on 2nd January 2012 and will be responsible for a fiction list comprising between 30... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The History Press shrinks pre-tax losses

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 12/10/2011 - 15:35 The History Press has shrunk pre-tax losses to under £1m for 2010, down from £1.4m the previous year. Using an EBITA measure (recorded earnings before interest, tax and depreciation) the company recorded earnings of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitch Winehouse memoir to HC

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:08 HarperCollins has bought rights to a memoir by the father of late soul singer Amy Winehouse. Nick Canham, editorial director for Harper Non-Fiction, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Amy, My Daughter by... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC to publish Christie's Grand Tour

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 22/09/2011 - 08:50 HarperCollins is publishing a collection of letters and photographs by Agatha Christie from a year-long trip she took around the world in a new book lined up for next year. The publisher signed a worldwide deal with Christie's... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC scores five on South Asian longlist

Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 14/09/2011 - 15:15 HarperCollins has scored five nominations on the 16-strong longlist for the DSC prize for South Asian Literature 2012, including Kishwar Desai’s Witness the Night, which won the Costa First Novel Award earlier this year. HC’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trollope to rework Austen in new HC series

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 13/09/2011 - 09:12 Joanna Trollope is to write a contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as part of a new series to be published by HarperFiction. Publishing director Louisa Joyner bought world rights from James Gill at... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We Love Pop teen mag posts strong first edition sales

We Love Pop, Egmont Publishing's new magazine for teenage girls, has claimed sales of 119,000 for its first issue, despite ongoing turbulence in the magazine industry. Continue reading at Media Week

[ Media Week | 2011-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac acquires French bestseller

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 07/09/2011 - 08:15 Pan Macmillan has acquired a title which has sold, according to the publisher, more than a quarter of a million copies in eight weeks in France and went to number one in the bestseller charts. Editorial director Liz Gough... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC's Heller moves to Quercus

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 07/09/2011 - 09:31 HarperCollins publishing director Jenny Heller is moving to Quercus, where she will help to grow the publisher's non-fiction business. Heller will begin her role, again as publishing director, on 10th October, and will... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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