Thursday Murder Club hits charts top spot for a second week

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has renewed its membership to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week, selling 34,485 copies in its first full week on sale. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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International Hot Book Properties, Week of August 24, 2015

An Argentinian short story collection sells in the States, a Finnish thriller moves to Spain, an Italian novel about cooking and family is nabbed in Germany, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mario Vargas Llosa hits back at claim he sold story to Hola!

Nobel laureate slams ‘slanderous’ New York Times Book Review article that repeated information from the Daily MailNobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been forced to deny that he sold a story to Hola! magazine in Spain, and that he announced a new relationship on Twitter, following a review in... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dave Morris: It’s murder, but is it art?

Our regular contributor Dave Morris' timing is always game-on sharp: Faber and Touchpress have just released their long-planned app edition (for iOS) of Iain Pears' Arcadia. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline hosts first Rooftop Book Club

Headline launched its Rooftop Book Club last night (19th August) at London’s Carmelite House with author Tasmina Perry saying the industry needed to work out how to “put the entertainment into publishing”. The event hosted authors Perry, Stella Newman and Jo Thomas in conversation with Heat... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Deals: Week of August 24, 2015

Heather Graham re-ups at Harlequin for seven figures, Pegasus signs a novel about the Roanoke Colony, Running Press lands a new diet book based on Zen teachings, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Briefs: Week of August 24, 2015

‘NYT’ changes kids’ bestseller lists and more in this week's publishing news briefs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 24, 2015

A memoir from actress Felicia Day, a favorite of Joss Whedon—and 2.5 million Twitter followers—debuts at #4 book in Hardcover Nonfiction. Plus ‘Devil in the White City’ and ‘Infinite Jest’ each get a boost from Hollywood, and new books from Jennifer Weiner and America’s Test Kitchen open strong. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookselling Roundup, Week Ending August 21, 2015

Several distinctive bookstores have opened this summer or are about to, including a bookshop with no name and one that only sells self-published authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Heavy hitting' campaign for new Boyd novel

Bloomsbury has promised a “high profile and heavy hitting” marketing campaign for the global release of William Boyd’s new novel Sweet Caress next week (27th August). The publisher said marketing plans include a “major” National Rail advertising campaign, third party partnerships, national... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Week in Children's Apps: August 17, 2015

This week in children's apps, an interactive story book encourages vocabulary building. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zach LaVine Couldn't Care Less About Dunking in Foot Locker Spot

Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The New Releases here ran on TV for the first time over the weekend. The Most Engaging ads are showing... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HC relaunches Detective Club series

HarperCollins has just reissued three titles (13th August) in a relaunched series of hardback crime classics, The Detective Club, its first crime imprint that dates back to the 1920s. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep children's book tops best seller list

An insomniac rabbit is the hero of a book which has become a surprise best seller. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audiobooks are booming – and now there’s a chart to prove it

The Bookseller’s inaugural top 20 list, led by print bestsellers, is notable for the absence of children’s titles“Listen to any good books on your holidays?” is a question that soon might not sound so weird. More and more of us are downloading audiobooks, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing industry's 'Super Thursday' to see more than 500 books published

Thursday in October heralds book industry’s major assault on the Christmas marketThe nature of that rectangular parcel under the Christmas tree can now be predicted: it could well be a new cook book by Nigella Lawson, Gordon Ramsay or Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, just like last year.Or it might... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hitting bookstores soon: J.R.R. Tolkien's first fantasy story

'The Story of Kullervo,' a dark retelling of the 19th-century Finnish poem 'The Kalevala,' is the latest in a number of previously unpublished works by J.R.R. Tolkien. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Deals: Week of August 17, 2015

Romance bestseller Susan Mallery re-ups at Harlequin for seven figures; Farida Abba, who survived being kidnapped by ISIS, sells a memoir; and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Week's Bestsellers: August 17, 2015

Conservative commentator Mark R. Levin has a big week with ‘Plunder and Deceit,’ the #3 book in the country. Plus Haruki Murakami’s earliest works get their first U.S. publication, and a biography of Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban scores on his home turf. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anti-whaling novel wins top prize at children's book awards

A novel with an anti-whaling message has taken the title of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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