Administrator Kroll has given a deadline of 22nd February for expressions of interest in The Works to be completed. The discount books chain went into administration at the end of January.

Peter Saville, a partner in Kroll's corporate and advisory restructuring division, said: "It will only take us a couple of days after [22nd...

Scholastic's UK arm started to claw its way back out of the red in the year to end-May 2007, posting a £1.37m loss for the period--an improvement of close to half a million pounds on 2006's figure, when it was £1.8m in the red.

Turnover rose 4.7% over the period, from 2006's £30.8m to £32.3m,...

Robyn Sisman is moving from Penguin to Orion after Paperbacks m.d. Susan Lamb paid a six-figure sum for two new books by the popular women's fiction author.

Lamb bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in Goodbye Hollywood—which charts the wayward course of an LA starlet in the UK—and a subsequent...

Canongate has brought forward publication of the paperback edition of Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope to next week following the race for the Democratic nomination in the US. Jenny Todd, sales and marketing director at Canongate, said: "We'll easily sell 75,000 copies this year and we'll have 30,000 in print by...