Wilson’s Faraway Tree continuation tale marks 80th anniversary of Blyton series

Jacqueline Wilson’s sequel to Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree books is to launch in May, with publisher Hachette Children’s Books making big plans to celebrate the series’ 80th year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-22 17:59:02 UTC ]
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Who’s the killer in ‘The Undoing’? The novelist behind the series wonders, too.

Jean Hanff Korelitz, author of “You Should Have Known,” talks about the surprising adaptation of her book. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-13 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Wright fitness guide to Thorsons

Thorsons has snared “the ultimate guide” to getting in shape from TV star Mark Wright. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-13 04:45:20 UTC ]
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10 Manga Like THE GAMER To Read After Catching Up With The Series

These are our favorite manhwa and manga like The Gamer to check out if you can’t get enough of this popular manhwa. Read on. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2020-11-11 11:39:00 UTC ]
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Trigger to launch new mental health series in 2021

Specialist mental health publisher Trigger Publishing is launching a new book series next year, focusing on "empowering people to help others with their mental health". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-09 07:44:22 UTC ]
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At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the Consolidation Carousel Continues

HMH joins the ranks of S&S as the latest large trade publisher to be put up for sale. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S sells Steadman's middle-grade series in 23 languages

Simon & Schuster's rights team has sold A F Steadman's debut middle-grade series Skandar and the Unicorn Thief in 23 languages, with total advances in excess of £1m.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-04 00:06:17 UTC ]
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From Baby Sitters to a Fairy-Tale Kingdom: PW Talks with Katy Farina

After adapting the first two novels in Ann Martin's Baby Sitters Littlle Sister series into graphic novels, cartoonist Katy Farina has just released 'Song of the Court,' her own original graphic novel. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
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HCG buys 'funny, feminist' YA tale from Tuffs

Hachette Children's Group is to publish two books in a "funny, feminist, witchy" YA series from debut author Julia Tuffs. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-30 01:58:02 UTC ]
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Nobrow lines up three further Hilda adventures as Netflix adaptation enters second series

​Nobrow will next month release three further Hilda books to tie in with the release of the second TV series starring the character on Netflix.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 22:16:04 UTC ]
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Dialogue pre-empts Paterson Joseph's 'dazzling' debut telling tale of Sancho

Dialogue Books has pre-empted actor Paterson Joseph's debut novel, The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho, an "illuminating and original" novel about the black writer and composer. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 09:06:03 UTC ]
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Bookstat: Cavanagh's reign continues

Steve Cavanagh’s Fifty-Fifty (Orion) has once again reigned atop the Bookstat e-book top 10 for the week ending 24th October, with Martina Cole’s No Mercy (Headline) holding firm in the runner-up spot for a second week running. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 03:52:52 UTC ]
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Wilson and Sharratt to end 30-year partnership with final book

Puffin has announced the final book in Jacqueline Wilson’s and Nick Sharratt’s 30-year-partnership, The Runaway Girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 00:56:46 UTC ]
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Evaristo curates new series Black Britain: Writing Back for Hamish Hamilton

Bernardine Evaristo is curating a new series of lost or hard-to-find books, now rediscovered, by black writers who wrote about black Britain and the diaspora across the last century.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-28 09:32:56 UTC ]
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Faber to publish Callender's transgender coming-of-age tale

Faber has triumphed in a four-way auction for Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender's "voice-driven" YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-28 08:59:47 UTC ]
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Owlet coins Royal Mint deal for children's series

Owlet Press has coined a partnership with the Royal Mint for a series of children's books bringing the story of the Tooth Fairy to life. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 14:20:17 UTC ]
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Dispatches from an Overheated World: On “Tales of Two Planets”

THE DEVELOPERS OF Beirut’s Eden Bay needed to clean up the raw sewage on the beach of their luxury development, so they rerouted it into a storm pipe. “And then the rains came,” writes Lina Mounzer in her darkly comedic account from the new anthology Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-25 12:30:52 UTC ]
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The Longest Book Series to Get You Through Winter 2020, AKA The Longest Time of All Our Lives

Get through the winter with some of the longest series on shelves, including The Guin Saga by Kaoru Kurimoto. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2020-10-23 10:34:00 UTC ]
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Sphere scoops another true crime title from David Wilson

Sphere will publish A Plot to Kill: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal and Murder in a Quiet English Town, from criminologist David Wilson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 17:27:16 UTC ]
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Torday returns to The Last Wild series with Hachette Children's

Piers Torday will revisit The Last Wild series with prequel The Wild Before, to be published by Hachette Children's Group in March 2021.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-20 16:12:08 UTC ]
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Puffin wins six-figure auction to publish Carney's debut MG series

Puffin has acquired debut middle-grade series, The Accidental Diary of B.U.G, from author-illustrator talent Jen Carney in a "heated" six-figure auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 21:47:37 UTC ]
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