Jill Jones appointed at Bloomsbury

Former Cengage Learning c.e.o. Jill Jones has been appointed as an independent non-executive... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible Appoints New CEO

Audible founder Don Katz will turn over the position of CEO to former IDG and Dun & Bradstreet executive Bob Carrigan on January 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury wins five-way auction for 'modern masculinity manifesto'

Bloomsbury Continuum has won a five-way bidding war for a “manifesto for modern masculinity” by Book of Man founder Martin Robinson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-15 15:29:43 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury buys Oberon Books in £1.2m deal

Bloomsbury has bought London-based theatre publisher Oberon Books in a £1.2m deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 04:13:11 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury scoops McMullan’s debut novel

Bloomsbury will publish journalist Thomas McMullan’s debut novel The Last Good Man in November 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 21:48:31 UTC ]
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Ben Bailey Smith's three middle-grade books go to Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired three "game-changing" middle-grade books by Ben Bailey Smith. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 18:08:52 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury enters China's domestic market

Bloomsbury is entering China’s domestic market in a joint venture with state-owned China Youth Publishing Group (CYPG) and its subsidiary Roaring Lion Media (RLM). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-01 13:35:55 UTC ]
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Liz Jones comic debut on eating disorders goes to Matthew James

Former Marie Claire editor-in-chief and Mail on Sunday columnist Liz Jones will release her eating disorder-inspired debut comic novel next year, released by Matthew James Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 06:52:00 UTC ]
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: On Saeed Jones’s “How We Fight for Our Lives”

THE QUEER COMING-OF-AGE MEMOIR is a weapon against erasure. The best of these memoirs move us by daring to be profoundly specific, providing a necessary consolation to readers who might have believed until then that they were alone in the dark. That their suffering would have no choice but to... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
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MoneySuperMarket’s Maitra appointed HUK communications director

Doyel Maitra has been appointed Clare Harington’s replacement as Hachette UK’s new group communications director from March 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 16:56:32 UTC ]
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Mabey hails Oneworld fiction list as Jones, Dean and Schweblin reveal 2020 titles

Oneworld showcased its Spring 2020 highlights last night, as publisher Juliet Mabey toasted ten years of success.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 00:07:43 UTC ]
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'It's never too early to share a book', says Paul Howard-Jones at Annual BookTrust lecture

Educational neuroscientist and Channel 4’s "The Secret Lives of Five Year Olds" expert Paul Howard-Jones has urged parents to read to their children to boost youngsters’ maths skills, in the Annual BookTrust Lecture. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-20 12:52:17 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to sell Whitaker’s Almanack

Bloomsbury is selling reference guide Whitaker’s assets, including the current edition, the online database, and backlist editions dating back to 1869. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 07:38:43 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to publish Henry Scowcroft's memoir

A memoir billed as a "popular-science detective story" by science writer Henry Scowcroft has gone to Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree, focusing on his fiancée’s experience of advanced bladder cancer. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 03:00:09 UTC ]
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Arifa Akbar appointed as the Guardian’s chief theatre critic

Katharine Viner congratulates ‘wonderful’ arts writer who is already a vital contributor to the paperArifa Akbar has been appointed as the Guardian’s chief theatre critic. Akbar, who will take up the role in the new year, said she was “honoured, utterly thrilled and immensely excited” by the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-11-08 10:52:21 UTC ]
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Maya Jama, Suranne Jones and Gemma Cairney to narrate Gender Rebels

Actress Suranne Jones and presenters Maya Jama and Gemma Cairney have joined author Anneka Harry to narrate her debut book Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers (W F Howes). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-04 18:24:12 UTC ]
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#Merky Books to expand as Lindsay-Prince appointed commissioning editor

Stormzy’s Penguin Random House imprint is set to expand, with Lemara Lindsay-Prince appointed to the newly created role of commissioning editor for #Merky Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-25 01:15:20 UTC ]
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PRH appoints Chantal Noel as group rights director

Chantal Noel has been appointed group rights director for Penguin Random House UK, after 11 years as rights director for Penguin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 20:57:31 UTC ]
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Frahm's take on rise and fall of Assyria goes to Bloomsbury

​Bloomsbury has signed a book from Yale professor Eckhart Frahm for the first comprehensive non-fiction account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world’s very first empire: Assyria. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 07:38:23 UTC ]
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Forget New York. For writer Saeed Jones, Columbus, Ohio, is the place to be a literary star.

The author of “How We Fight For Our Lives” explains why he left the Big Apple for the Midwest Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-22 19:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Kids bags diverse series trio

Bloomsbury Children’s has made three acquisitions centred around diversity which will "up-end the content stereotypes of series for young readers". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 18:04:27 UTC ]
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