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Authors appeal for Quick Reads to continue

The book trade has reacted with shock and dismay to the “tragedy” that Quick Reads has been scrapped for next year after organisers struggled to... Read more

Chance promoted to m.d. at Carlton

Dean Chance has been promoted to managing director of the Carlton Publishing Group. Read more

Lagom to publish The Good Girl’s Guide To Being A Dick

Lagom is publishing The Good Girl’s Guide To Being A Dick, the first English translation of Alexandra Reinwarth's book which has sold half a million copies... Read more

Readers encouraged to 'ditch burdensome books' for WBN

New research by the Reading Agency suggests the UK is a nation afflicted with "book-block", with many readers deciding to give up on books after... Read more

Book trade's runners complete hottest London Marathon on record

Members of the book trade braved the hottest London Marathon in history yesterday in the name of charity. Read more

Sarah Odedina launches writers’ workshop

Publisher Sarah Odedina is launching a new workshop for aspiring children’s authors and will give away 10% of the tickets to black, Asian and minority... Read more

Debuts from Hermes Gowar, Greengrass and Batuman make Women's Prize shortlist

Debuts by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Jessie Greengrass and Elif Batuman have been shortlisted for 2018’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. Read more

S&S Children’s hires Sarah Macmillan

Simon & Schuster UK has hired Sarah Macmillan as its new children’s marketing and publicity director. Read more

Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction pre-empted by L,B within 24 hours

Little, Brown has pre-empted Andrew Sean Greer's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Less within 24 hours. Read more

Royal biographer takes on All the Queen's Corgis

Royal biographer Penny Junor is publishing a book about all the dogs the Queen has owned in her lifetime, called All the Queen's Corgis.... Read more

Introvert's 'misadventures in extroverting' to Transworld

Transworld has acquired a non-fiction book "about an introvert who tries to live as an extrovert for a year". Read more

Pictures of the week

This week's pictures round-up features a London Book Fair after-party, the Man Booker International shortlist announcement and Alesha Dixon. Read more

Constable to publish memoir of dry-stone waller

Constable has acquired the memoir of a dry-stone waller, publishing in May. Read more

Orion to create Anarchy with Wattpad's Megan DeVos

Orion Fiction has snapped up the Anarchy series by Wattpad author Megan DeVos. Read more

Dennis Quaid to narrate The President is Missing audiobook

American actor Dennis Quaid, who played Bill Clinton in the 2010 TV movie "The Special Relationship", has been cast to narrate the audiobook of The President is... Read more