Second Sara Pascoe for Faber
Rights - NonFictionMen are the focus for latest title from comedian Sara Pascoe; follow-up to Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
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First winner of £20,000 Kindle award...
David Leadbeater picked up the inuagural Kindle Storyteller Award last night for his novel The Relic Hunters
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Reading remains holiday staple
Research from Opodo reveals the reading habits of Brits abroad: Picoult favourite, reading remains in top three of holiday activities and one in five holidaymakers will get through four books in the sun
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Brexit series from Creative...
National series of seminars and round tables to help creative sector 'navigate the specific issues of Brexit - the challenge of our times'
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Jumping the north/south hurdle
Jonathan Lee could not get his voice heard in London. So he set up his own imprint for northern writers
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Tom Hanks at London Litfest
News - FestivalsActor-turned-writer to appear at Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival
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French exchange whale makes Hodder home
Rights - FictionHodder & Stoughton acquires The French Exchange Whale And Other Rejected Book Ideas, a humorous collection of ‘bad book ideas’ by Cal King.
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IPA in Istanbul to protest at the trial of 17 journalists
News - InternationalJournalists and executives - including publisher Turhan Gunay - from the national Cumhuriyet newspaper are being tried on charges that their work aided terrorism
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Tom Palmer's summer of library love
News - ChildrenBarrington Stoke children's author conducts library tour of free events throughout the summer holiday
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Amazon doubles HQ staff to 900
News - BooksellingMove announced as new Shoreditch head office opens; UK staff total to reach 24,000 by year end
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Rachael Lucas two-book deal from PanMac
Rights - FictionPan Macmillan to publish two more novels from Rachael Lucas
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New editor for poetry magazine
News - PublishingModern Poetry in Translation hires Clare Pollard to succeed Sasha Dugdale from this autumn
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Also on BookBrunch today
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Jumping the north/south hurdle
Opinion - BooksJonathan Lee could not get his voice heard in London. So he set up his own imprint for northern writers
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A voice to the voiceless: the challenges and rewards of writing fiction set in a distant place and time
Opinion - BooksHow to bring alive a story written out of history? Lesley Downer on the years of familiarisation and research that have gone into her novel The Shogun's Queen
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Towards a more inclusive fiction
Opinion - BooksChuck Caruso on why an important character in his new thriller is transgender
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