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Defending UK success

Gordon Wise reflects on his presidency of the Association of Authors’ Agents, and looks at the ongoing challenges facing the group. Read more

Where do EU stand?

With the EU referendum only months away, the trade needs to start the conversation about whether to stay or leave now, Gordon Wise argues.... Read more

Sceptre wins three-publisher auction for New Yorker cartoonist's debut

Sceptre has scooped the debut graphic novel by award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Will McPhail in a three-publisher auction. Read more

Atlantic triumphs in seven-way auction for prison diary

Following a “highly competitive” seven-way bidding war, Atlantic Books has acquired a prison diary by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Chris Atkins from his time at HMP Wandsworth.... Read more

Hodder & Stoughton acquires Finkel's book on world's first ghost stories

Hodder & Stoughton has acquired Dr Irving Finkel’s book on the world’s first ghost stories. Read more

'Defend and nurture' UK publishing, Wise urges policymakers

Curtis Brown agent Gordon Wise, former president of the Association of Authors' Agents, has urged parliamentarians to defend the achievements of UK publishers. ... Read more

Kremer succeeds Wise as AAA president

Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates has succeeded Gordon Wise of Curtis Brown as president of the Association of Authors' Agents (AAA). Read more

'Reach out to ignored readers', FutureBook panel urges

Publishers can't afford to be complacent if they are to help authors get more of their books into the hands of readers, agreed a panel of... Read more

BBC snaps up Dooley's debut

BBC Books will publish BBC presenter Stacey Dooley’s debut about "extraordinary women". Read more

Freight asks authors to buy own books

Troubled publisher Freight Books has been accused of "rubbing salt in the wound" by sending an email to writers asking if they wanted to buy... Read more

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