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From News | 24 May 2013

Royal visit marks launch of Hay - TRA partnership

The Reading Agency (TRA) is embarking on a long-term partnership with the Hay Festival, with the first day (yesterday) of the litfest featuring a Summer Reading Challenge event attended by the Prince of Wales (left), the Duchess of Cornwall and 3,000 primary school children.
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Bestsellers [click titles for info]

Foyles Charing Cross Road w/e 19.5.13

  1. Inferno
  2. The great Gatsby
  3. Gone girl
  4. Fall of night
  5. The gigantic beard that was evil
  6. untitled
  7. The lost symbol
  8. Angels & Demons (Incl Inferno sample) FI
  9. Peter and Alice
  10. Sweet tooth

Foyles Royal Festival Hall w/e 19.5.13

  1. BBC Proms 2013: The Official Guide
  2. On the road bike
  3. Bring up the bodies
  4. The great Gatsby
  5. Inferno
  6. Sweet tooth
  7. We completely must go to London
  8. Politics and the English Language
  9. Gone girl
  10. London Mini Map

Bestsellers [click titles for info]

Foyles St Pancras w/e 19.5.13

  1. Inferno
  2. The red house
  3. Gone girl
  4. Bring up the bodies
  5. The expats
  6. Sweet tooth
  7. Lean in
  8. The art of thinking clearly
  9. The Fast Diet Recipe Book
  10. The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared

Foyles Westfield White City w/e 19.5.13

  1. Inferno
  2. The great Gatsby
  3. Gone girl
  4. The lost symbol
  5. The gigantic beard that was evil
  6. The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared
  7. Gatsby cocktails
  8. A game of thrones
  9. Sweet tooth

Links of the day

  1. John Freeman, on resigning from Granta: "Sigrid [Rausing] decided a while back she wanted to run the magazine and books on a very reduced staff... [I] didn't want to be part of that change, or the smaller ship, because I've seen us make huge reductions in our losses by growing." (Guardian)
  2. Inferno has huge debut, but below The Lost Symbol (Publishers Weekly); Manila upset at Dan Brown's "gates of hell" line (Telegraph)
  3. Six book publishing lessons from Open Road Media’s first three years (paidContent); Open Road to publish newly discovered novel by Pearl S Buck (Washington Post)
  4. Jung Chang writes "groundbreaking" new biography of Empress Dowager Cixi (Guardian)
  5. Poolbeg to reissue Irish Justice Minister Alan Shatter's steamy 1989 novel Laura (Herald)
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