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• Tagholm's Take - the news in books at 14 June 2019

  News

  Roger Tagholm, in association with the London Book Fair, on the Barnes & Noble takeover and other book trade news
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• Alexa von Hirschberg quits Bloomsbury for Faber role

  News - Publishing

  Bloomsbury editorial director appointed head of Faber Social, starting in September
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• The science of Moby's diction for William Collins

  Rights - NonFiction

  Publisher acquires wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill’s debut, How to Speak Whale, 'a lively, wide-ranging and personal investigation of the science of animal...
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• Amelia Evans leaves Bonnier to go back to Cornerstone

  News - Publishing

  Rights director back at Cornerstone after two-year spell at Bonnier Books UK
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• Stress deal for Yellow Kite

  Rights - NonFiction

  Liz Gough signs Widen The Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma by pioneering researcher Dr Elizabeth Stanley
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• Penguin Random House signs Dr Gabor Maté global rights

  Rights - NonFiction

  Ebury will publish Maté's next titles in the UK: The Myth of Normal 'promises to be his masterpiece'
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• Scribe expands its publicity and marketing team

  News - Publishing

  Adam Howard has been promoted, while Aoife Datta rejoins the team
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• Nick Sharratt wins first Alligator's Mouth Award

  News - Prizes

  Nice Work for the Cat and the King wins inaugural early fiction award
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• UCLan Publishing relaunches Vampirates series

  News - Children

  First three books in Justin Somper's series to be published in March 2020; three more in 2021
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• Kate Hordern marks 20 years of KHLA

  News - Publishing

  Groucho party for literary agency attended by authors, colleagues and friends
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• Faber throws annual summer party

  News - Publishing

  Author, agents, publishers and staff past and present gathered last night for the literary publisher's annual summer party
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• Three-book Simon & Schuster deal for Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet

  Rights - Children

  Children's division signs duo up for more picture books including new Supertato adventures
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• Look Up! launches at Waterstones Trafalgar Square

  News - Children

  Picture book by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola launches in London
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• KIMBUK Festival and Scenarex win Frankfurt's Wildcard campaign

  News - International

  Frankfurt Book Fair announces companies winning a free stand at 2019 event
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• School of Life for Hamish Hamilton

  News - NonFiction

  Hamish Hamilton to publish The School of Life: An Emotional Education from Alain de Botton’s The School of Life in September
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• Questions for: Karina Urquhart

  News - Interviews

  The director of BIC contributes to our Q&A series
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• How writing about women adventurers made me more brave

  Opinion - Books

  Ailsa Ross has written an adventure book full of women and girls - just what she'd have liked to read when she was young
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