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Longlist Announced For World's Most Valuable Sports Book Prize
www.booktrade.info - 7:45PM Thursday 2nd October 2008

13 books short-listed for the 20th annual William Hill Sports Book of the Year

Penguin US Merges Gotham And Avery
www.publishersweekly.com - 8:07AM Wednesday 1st October 2008

Penguin is putting Gotham Books and Avery Books under a single management team

Del Toro Books Vampire Deal
www.variety.com - 8:04AM Thursday 25th September 2008

'Hobbit' director to co-write trilogy of novels

Jackie O.'s Years As Editor Are Focus Of New Book
www.msnbc.msn.com - 7:49AM Tuesday 23rd September 2008

Jacqueline Kennedy's years as a book editor, many of them at Doubleday, will be the subject of a Doubleday book coming out in 2011

Hachette Lands Serena Book Deal
www.crainsnewyork.com - 6:16AM Wednesday 17th September 2008

Tennis star Serena Williams sold her yet-untitled memoir to Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group USA

Bookies Odds For The Booker
www.booktrade.info - 1:09PM Tuesday 9th September 2008

Booker prize judges do bookies a favour by omitting the three favourites from the shortlist

Windmill Books Appoints Stephanie Sweeney
www.booktrade.info - 12:10PM Tuesday 9th September 2008

Stephanie Sweeney, currently Creative Director at Pan Macmillan, is to move to CHA's new paperback imprint Windmill Books to take up the role of Editorial Director

Fancy A Flutter?
www.guardian.co.uk - 6:47PM Monday 8th September 2008

for those who fancy a high-risk flutter, the Browser stakes his shirt on A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz, currently languishing at 16/1 at William Hill

Hagues Are MPs' Favourite Authors
www.telegraph.co.uk - 8:08AM Monday 11th August 2008

The Hagues have been a power couple in politics for years - but now they have swept a poll of MPs' favourite books

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Voted Best Audiobook In National Poll
www.booktrade.info - 8:18AM Friday 1st August 2008

'Testament to the power of comedy in audio form'

America's Self-Publishing 'Miracle'
books.guardian.co.uk - 8:11AM Thursday 17th July 2008

The word "bestseller" doesn't mean too much nowadays - "Self-published bestseller" does

Venus Williams Signs With Harper
www.publishersweekly.com - 8:02AM Thursday 17th July 2008

HarperCollins has inked a deal with 2008 Wimbledon winner Venus Williams

Shakespeare 'For Five-year-olds'
news.bbc.co.uk - 7:29AM Monday 7th July 2008

Primary school children as young as five are to be given an early insight into the work of William Shakespeare

Play About Publishing Goes To The Big Screen
www.publishingnews.co.uk - 7:27AM Friday 4th July 2008

Maureen Lipman to star in the film version of Martin Wagner's play The Agent

Christian Novel Is Surprise Best Seller
nytimes.com - 8:16AM Tuesday 24th June 2008

Eckhart Tolle may have Oprah Winfrey, but 'The Shack' has people like Caleb Nowak

Amazon Should Buy Borders
biz.yahoo.com - 1:34PM Thursday 12th June 2008

Pershing's Ackerman calls for Amazon.com to buy Borders

British Authors Of 'New Harry Potter' Land Million-Dollar Hollywood Film Contract
www.telegraph.co.uk - 7:22AM Tuesday 3rd June 2008

Two British authors behind a publishing phenomenon that could take over from Harry Potter have landed a million-dollar Hollywood film contract

Wendy Cope: 'I Don't Want To Be Laureate'
books.guardian.co.uk - 7:05PM Monday 2nd June 2008

The 400-year-old institution of the poet laureate has been labelled "ridiculous" and "archaic" by Wendy Cope

Child 44 Favourite To Win New Prize
www.publishingnews.co.uk - 7:46AM Friday 23rd May 2008

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith is favourite to win the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize

Queen Is Asked To Appoint First Female Poet Laureate After 22 Men In 340 Years
www.independent.co.uk - 8:19AM Thursday 22nd May 2008

Organisers of one of the most significant poetry festivals have decided that the wait for a female laureate has been long enough

'Worst Poet' Outsells Boy Wizard
news.bbc.co.uk - 6:27PM Saturday 17th May 2008

A private collector has paid £6,600 for poems by the man ridiculed as "the world's worst poet"

Salman Rushdie Favourite For Best Of The Booker Award
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 7:31AM Monday 12th May 2008

To celebrate 40 years of the Man Booker literary prize, a shortlist of six past winners has been drawn up, from which one will be picked by the public for a Best of the Booker award

Literary Prize Hopefuls Named
www.independent.co.uk - 7:40AM Monday 28th April 2008

An award-winning poet, a best-selling American author and a Man Booker Prize contender are on the shortlist for Britain's oldest literary award

Fork-lift -truck Driver Wins Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year Award 2008
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 7:14AM Tuesday 8th April 2008

Adam Foulds wins Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his highly accomplished first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times

Eclectic Shortlist Vies For Orwell Prize
books.guardian.co.uk - 6:54AM Wednesday 2nd April 2008

William Hague, leftist commentator Nick Cohen, and author of A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka, are all in the running for the prestigious Orwell prize