Weekly E-Ranking: Blue Moon grabs third number one

Lee Child’s Blue Moon has boomeranged back into the Weekly E-Book Ranking top spot, a week after Philip Pullman’s collected His Dark Materials sensationally knocked the 24th Jack Reacher title from the number one. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Lee Child elbows Joe Wicks off the top spot for 14th number one

Lee Child has claimed his 14th number one as Make Me (Bantam), the 20th Jack Reacher novel, swiped the top spot from Joe Wicks’ Lean in 15 (Bluebird). Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Apple reveals bestselling iBooks of 2015

E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey series has claimed five spots on Apple's iBooks 2015 best-selling fiction chart while Jeffrey Archer has claimed four spots and Lee Child has two. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Television takes on film in the next chapter of book adaptations

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[ The Guardian | 2015-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks Bestsellers: Child New #1

Lee Child’s 'Make Me,' released September 8, debuted at the top of Apple’s iBooks bestseller list for the week ended September 14. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Girl on the Train tops Amazon's UK ebook sales this year so far

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[ The Guardian | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Jack Reacher week' at The Sun

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pullman: 'Amazon investigation should include author earnings'

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kensal Rise Library re-opens after five-year battle

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Transworld pair top fiction charts

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Rankin, Child and Hodgson on Theakstons Crime longlist

Crime novelists Ian Rankin and Lee Child are among the authors longlisted for this year’s Theakston’s Old Peculier crime novel of the year award. Rankin’s Saints of the Shadow Bible (Orion Fiction) and Child’s Personal (Bantam) are up against 16 other novels, including The Facts of Life and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Child’s Personal best in UK Top 50

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Child, Runcie and Hannah to speak at CrimeFest convention

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pullman’s His Dark Materials released in digital format

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series is released today (5th March) in ebook format for the first time. Penguin Random House, which owns the digital rights to the trilogy, is publishing Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass as ebooks, priced at £5.49 each. It is also... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Patterson most borrowed author but loan numbers fall

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UK writers cheer as 'despicable' ban on sending books to prisons is lifted

J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, Julian Barnes, and others expressed delight when a high court in the United Kingdom struck down a ban on sending books to prisoners. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Lee Child On Why He Signed with Authors United

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iBooks Bestsellers: Child Hangs On

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