News

• Tagholm's Take: the news in books at 7 August 2020

  News

  Friday, 7th August 2020

  Roger Tagholm, in association with the London Book Fair, on the impact of Covid-19 on European markets, and other book world news
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• 2020 Dagger shortlists unveiled

  News - Prizes

  Friday, 7th August 2020

  Jeffery Deaver, Christopher Brookmyre and Mick Herron amongst big names competing across ten categories in leading crime awards
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• BookTrust gives away over 235,000 books during lockdown

  News - Books

  Friday, 7th August 2020

  The reading charity has given the books to people who have been hardest hit by the pandemic
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• UEA Live reveals line up details

  News - Festivals

  Friday, 7th August 2020

  Lee Child, Bernardine Evaristo and Ian McEwan will feature
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• CUP in open access deal with Hindawi

  News - Academic

  Friday, 7th August 2020

  Five journals will publish with Hindawi Limited under a new collaborative publishing agreement
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• London publishers creep back to the office

  News - Publishing

  Friday, 7th August 2020

  September most popular option as staff trickle back into town; no publisher is insisting on 100% office attendance
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• The BookBrunch Interview: Martha Sprackland, poet and publisher of Offord Books

  News - Interviews

  Friday, 7th August 2020

  Why is poetry the form we turn to during turbulent times? Julie Vuong asks Martha Sprackland, Forward Prize nominee and Offord Road publisher, to consider this in the...
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• Waterstones shuts Milton Keynes store

  News - Bookselling

  Thursday, 6th August 2020

  MK Shopping Centre outlet shuts after 'excessive' demands by landlord Hermes; neighbouring Midsummer Place store stays open
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• Jobs go as sales halve at WH Smith

  News - Bookselling

  Thursday, 6th August 2020

  Group turnover 57% down in July: 1,500 jobs set to be cut as pandemic ravages high street and travel divisions
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• Piers Torday, Hachette and Blackwells team up for children's writing competition

  News - Children

  Thursday, 6th August 2020

  Wild About Writing launched yesterday online and on social media
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