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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 05/08/2011 - 11:07 HarperCollins has bought the life story of Thelma Madine, the dressmaker from the Channel 4 documentary series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. World rights were bought by Vicky McGeown, commissioning editor for Harper non-fiction,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 29/07/2011 - 11:24 Pan Macmillan has acquired a memoir by Olympic rowing gold medallist Greg Searle, who will be hoping to achieve his second gold medal in 2012, twenty years after his first. Macmillan non-fiction publisher Jon Butler... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Mon, 18/07/2011 - 17:28 The claim that J K Rowling's fourth Harry Potter book plagiarised a work by author Adrian Jacobs has been thrown out of court after the clamants failed to come up with the £850,000 demanded by the courts for the case to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 08:30 Free Word has appointed Rose Fenton as director of the organisation, with her first day to be 12th September. The Free Word Centre in London is a house of literature, literacy and free expression, hosting debates, readings and conferences. Ten... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 21/06/2011 - 15:00 Culture minister Ed Vaizey today promised that he would not "shy away" from the responsibility to intervene over library closures that breached local authority statutory duties, but said he had not yet received advice that... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 23/05/2011 - 15:41 Simon & Schuster has defended its publication of Will & Kates Big Fat Gypsy Wedding as fun and gently humorous after Tesco withdrew the book from sale, following complaints. The supermarket pulled the title after... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 06/05/2011 - 10:28 Hardie Grant UK is hoping to make a splash by publishing a healthy eating cookbook by Olympic swimmer, Australian Ian Thorpe. Pam Brewster at Hardie Grant acquired world rights to Cook for Your Life from David Flaskas of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 08/04/2011 - 08:26 Faber is marking 100 years since the birth of William Golding by issuing centenary editions of both Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors. The books will carry a golden stamp announcing the anniversary, and will have... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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