Blackwell's Books of the Year unveiled
News - BooksellingWinners of four categories announced today; booksellers chose overall 2020 Book of the Year in January
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Russian doping mastermind wins...
Dr Grigory Rodchenkov, now in hiding, blew the whistle on Russia's state-sponsored doping programme and wins prize for his tell-all book - The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin’s Secret Doping Empire
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Mexican title wins 2020 Cundill...
Camilla Townsend's Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs uses Aztec sources to rewrite the story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico - and wins $75,000, the largest reward for a work of non-fiction in English
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Dara McAnulty joins Macmillan...
Gifted teenage naturalist has won Wainwright Prize and BAMB Award this year
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Sophie Missing moves up to publisher...
Daunt Books announces this morning that Sophie Missing has been promoted to publisher, succeeding Željka Marosevic who is moving to Cape
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Hodder buys 'twisty, page-turning' debut
Rights - FictionThe Courier, by Holly Down, 'is up there with the best psychological suspense novels around'
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More Pocket Einstein titles for Michael O'Mara
News - NonFictionTwo new titles – 10 Short Lessons in Time Travel and 10 Short Lessons in Renewable Energy – add to the series that launched last year with titles on AI and robotics and...
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Welbeck announces 'major crime debut'
Rights - FictionThe Locksmith by Linda Calvey, with a foreword by Martina Cole, draws on the author's experience 'of living at the heart of the criminal world for a generation'
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Malorie Blackman announces final Noughts & Crosses novel
Rights - ChildrenEndgame publishes with Penguin in summer 2021
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Albertalli and Silvera team up again with S&S
Rights - ChildrenBestselling YA authors have written a sequel to their 2018 novel What If It's Us
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Ebury signs Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding's memoir
Rights - NonFictionHear Me Out publishes on 18 March 2021, covering Harding's path to fame and how it affected her life
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Goldsboro Books expands with second branch in Brighton
News - BooksellingNew shop in the historic Lanes area in the heart of Brighton will open before Christmas
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Barrington Stoke signs Peter Bunzl's Featherlight
Rights - FictionMyth and history combine 'in a magical Barrington Stoke debut inspired by the incredible true stories of female lighthouse keepers'
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Pan Mac signs next Rachael Lucas novel
Rights - FictionBestselling author of The Telephone Box Library returns to Little Maudley with The Village Green Bookshop
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