From Grange Hill to the West End, via Eurovision and the Brit awards, the star has built multiple careers. She talks about stage-school pressure, TV diversity and playing Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed ChildMichelle Gayle was 10 months into her role as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child last March – and in such full swing that she was in “total denial” of the pandemic – when the West End closed its doors. Sitting in a chintzy backroom of the Palace theatre now, she talks in athletic terms about 12-hour rehearsal days and re-building her stamina. The whole cast is ecstatic to be back, she says, but they are also whispering about how tired they feel.Exhaustion aside, she speaks of her debt to Noma Dumezweni, whose casting in 2016 sparked online outrage from some at the prospect of a Black Hermione. JK Rowling piled in to the furore to defend the casting and call out the complaints as racist. Dumezweni won an Olivier award for the part. “I owe her a lot of gratitude – I’m standing on her shoulders,” says Gayle. “She got through that [time] with incredible grace and proved she was there on merit because she’s a bloody good actress but she had to take a big hit online to do that. When someone of the quality of Noma steps up, no one’s got anything more to say and then the conversation’s dead. It’s a shame that you have to be brilliant to end that conversation, but there are enough brilliant black actors out there.” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Mark Searle, publisher at Bright Press at The Quarto Group, will join DK as publishing director of licensing in November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 02:29:25 UTC ]
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Elise Burns is leaving Bloomsbury to join Bonnier Books UK as its new trade sales and export director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-02 22:43:52 UTC ]
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HarperCollins’ Tom Killingbeck is joining Viking as editorial director as Jack Ramm leaves the PRH imprint to set up an editorial services company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 12:08:27 UTC ]
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Jamie Oliver’s Veg (Michael Joseph) has leapt straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 24,261 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 05:37:15 UTC ]
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Publisher Kerry Enzor is leaving Quarto to lead a new Quercus imprint focused on international non-fiction originated entirely in-house. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-18 12:13:03 UTC ]
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Regina Porter’s debut novel The Travelers includes short chapters, photos, and a compendium of voices—a full cast is listed in the front matter. This includes the Vincents, with patriarch “the man James” and his son Rufus; the Christies, headed by Eddie and Agnes with their daughters Claudia... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-08-05 11:00:57 UTC ]
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An anniversary concert, books and other memorabilia try, once again, to capture a moment that’s passed. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-26 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has revealed its gender pay gap figures nine months early with a largely unchanged balance sheet but with a new initiative which sees all new parents at the company given the opportunity to take 12 months off from next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-24 23:00:06 UTC ]
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The veteran editor and publisher is leaving the conservative imprint he founded at St. Martin's, All Points Books, for a currently unnamed new venture. With the move, APB will close in August 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitchell Beazley has scooped "EastEnders" actor and "Celebrity Masterchef" winner John Partridge's first cookbook, featuring dishes inspired by personal memories. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-18 13:09:51 UTC ]
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Hodder Education’s group business operations manager Alyssum Ross is departing the firm after 20 years, as part of a restructure. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-15 02:55:59 UTC ]
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Sarah Hodgson will join Corvus as publishing director after 20 years at HarperCollins. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-12 05:33:21 UTC ]
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Hachette's group communications director Clare Harington is stepping down after 12 years with the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 21:50:48 UTC ]
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Gillie Russell is leaving Aitken Alexander to join literary agency Found, where she will continue to represent her existing authors and expand the list. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-08 00:55:14 UTC ]
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Douglas Schatz, m.d. of Samuel French Ltd, has left the company, following the acquisition of the specialist theatrical publishing and licensing company by Concord Music, revealed in December. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 10:40:48 UTC ]
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Amanda Harris will join talent management group YMU, in a newly created role as director publishing, after 14 years at Orion. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-01 08:13:35 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury’s digital director and publisher Stephanie Duncan has left the company after almost 23 years. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-25 18:10:45 UTC ]
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Orion Spring and Seven Dials commissioning editor Emily Barrett is leaving the lifestyle and non-fiction imprints to join Sphere. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-17 09:59:09 UTC ]
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Editorial director for Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N), Paul Murphy, is leaving his role after more than eight years with Orion, following a “review" of the imprint's non-fiction commissioning team. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-27 22:34:20 UTC ]
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is expanding its parental leave policy effective immediately, the company said in a release. Founder Michael Bloomberg made the announcement Tuesday to his employees to expand the gender-neutral... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2019-05-15 22:01:31 UTC ]
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