Lord Alan Sugar tells Pan Mac: 'You're hired'

No-nonsense business guru Lord Alan Sugar has done a deal with Pan Macmillan for his autobiography, to be published this autumn. The star of TV's "The...

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Apple helps shift landscape for UK publishers over e-books

The world's biggest publishers will follow Macmillan US' lead in demanding...

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Macmillan US and Amazon.com settle e-books dispute

Macmillan US and Amazon.com have resolved their week-long dispute over e-book terms...

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High street loses two independent bookshops a week

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Apportunity knocks

Publishers need to ditch their obsession with books and think more creatively.

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Fair e-book royalties

Digital publishing and royalties need to be viewed as part of the publishing eco-system and not as a separate process.

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Token resistance

This week's soft launch of electronic books tokens has sharply divided opinion within independent book­sellers.

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Official UK Top 50

30th January
  1. Twenties Girl Kinsella, Sophie
  2. Don't Tell Rose, Karen
  3. The Lovely Bones (tie-in) Sebold, Alice
  4. Long Lost Coben, Harlan
  5. How Could She? Fowley, Dana
  6. The Lovers Connolly, John
  7. Eclipse Meyer, Stephenie
  8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Larsson, Stieg
  9. Breaking Dawn Meyer, Stephenie
  10. The Little Stranger Waters, Sarah
  11. Juliet, Naked Hornby, Nick
  12. Twilight Meyer, Stephenie
  13. The Shakespeare Curse Carrell, J L
  14. Handle with Care Picoult, Jodi
  15. The Girl Who Played with Fire Larsson, Stieg
  16. Relentless Koontz, Dean
  17. The Truth About Melody Browne Jewell, Lisa
  18. Mums Know Best The Hairy Bikers
  19. The Road (tie-in) McCarthy, Cormac
  20. Sphinx Learner, T S

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Review of 2009: Author-ised

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Shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year, The Siege told the story of the terrible winter of 1941 when Leningrad, surrounded by the German army, suffered almost unimaginable deprivation....

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For Dummies - Making Everything Easier

Over 1600 customers a day can’t be wrong! Exciting new books for Spring 2010 include British Politics For Dummies and Football For Dummies, as well as the launch of the first ever For Dummies audio books.

Unhooking the Moon

Gregory Hughes 6 May 2010

Meet the Rat: a dancing, football-playing, gangster-wise country girl. When the Rat foresees her father’s death, she picks up her football and heads for New York. What can her older brother Bob do but follow? A funny, poignant and utterly gripping road-trip adventure.

Before the Storm

Diane Chamberlain 22 January

How far would you go to protect your child? From the bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and The Bay at Midnight comes this compelling new novel. A must for all fans of Jodi Picoult.