Detective Hercule Point and butler Jeeves joined guests at a sleepover event in Waterstones’ flagship store on Saturday (26th October). Altogether 19 guests spent 12 hours overnight in the bookshop at an event organised after the company hit the headlines when an American tourist got locked in Waterstones Trafalgar Square and later had to be let out by police. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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United Agents has appointed Margaret Halton as joint head of Adult Foreign Rights, alongside... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet and academic Sir Michael Edwards was today (22nd May) formally admitted to the Acadé... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former tennis player Jimmy Connors, publicists Karen Geary and Rebecca Mundy, and retailer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire Bord, formerly editorial director at Avon, has joined digital publisher Bookouture as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Carole Tonkinson is to leave HarperCollins to launch a new non-fiction imprint at Pan Macmillan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic has made two appointments to its fiction editorial team, David Maybury and Peter... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton is to publish a recipe book for jams, chutneys and preserves by one of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fiona Allen, head of PR and brand communications at Waterstones, and Jon Howells, the chain's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sam Humphreys is to return to Pan Macmillan after just over three years at Penguin Random House... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Lubart, formerly senior v-p of sales analytics and pricing at HarperCollins, has been named senior v-p, strategy and publishing operations at the Hachette Book Group effective immediately. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones has opened another new-look store in York. The York bookshop has moved from its... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Hatchards assistant manager Karin Scherer has been appointed as a bookseller at Heywood... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The organisers of the Branford Boase award today (1st May) announced this year’s shortlist... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is to open a new store in Ringwood, Hampshire, on Saturday (19th April). It is the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Katherine Rundell’s novel Rooftoppers (Faber and Faber) has been crowned the overall winner... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stacy Creamer has been named v-p and executive editor of the newly announced imprint at Hachette, built off of the Hyperion backlist, Hachette Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tim Waterstone, the founder of the Waterstone's book shop chain, predicts that the "ebook revolution" will soon go into decline in the UK. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Phaidon Press has appointed Keith Fox as its new c.e.o. Fox joins Phaidon from McGraw Hill... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The merger partners are two of America's least favorite cable companies, according to the magazine's new survey.Merger partners Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. are two of America's least favorite cable companies, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ira Silverberg, former literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts in the US, is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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