BookBrunch Daily Newsletter - 17/03/2017 - LBF final wrap: deals summarised and dates set for next year

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LBF final wrap: deals summarised and dates set for next year

Organisers have hailed a successful London Book Fair, against a backdrop of a growing print market, and set April date for 2018

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BookBrunch is free for London Book Fair week

To give everyone the chance to enjoy our news and feature coverage, and our new website, at this busiest week of the UK publishing year, we...

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Moomin crowdfunding raises £$60,000

Cash raised in a week for Moomin TV adaptation; $10,000 given by Terry Pratchett's daughter Rhianna

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Carnegie and Kate Greenaway shortlists unveiled

Mal Peet shortlisted posthumously; Chris Riddell in running for record fourth Medal; first translated book in the hunt, Dieter Braun's Wild...

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September date for next Marian Keyes

Michael Joseph today announces 7 September publication date in UK and Ireland for latest Marian Keyes novel, titled The Break

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Faber snaps up second Tim Baker novel

Thriller City Without Stars follows last year's debut Fever City

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New deals and branding at Choc Lit

Five new deals with authors and a rebrand for Death by Choc lit by women's indie ahead of LBF

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Fairy tale signing for Two Roads

Hodder imprint signs collection of modern fairy tales by Jen Campbell, author of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

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New Internationalist seeks shareholders

Book and magazine indie publisher seeks cash through crowd-sourced share offer

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Hodder Preview at Shoreditch Town Hall

Robert Peston, Lucy Worsley, AN Wilson, James May among star authors

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Lorraine Pascale at St Martin's Hotel

Afternoon tea with Champagne to launch new baking book

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Story of Mandela presidency to Pan Macmillan

Book draws on Mandela's own account and on archive material

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Sweetpea to See-Saw Films

TV in offing for new HQ thriller by CJ Skuse

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Orion hires Feldman as US scout

Alanna Feldman now Orion's American scout

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Samantha Shannon at The Caves

Launch for latest Bone Season novel

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Why I started a diverse children's publisher

Mark Lemon could find very few books featuring children like his own. So he did something about it

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Sceptre reveals autism follow-up cover

Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight by Naoki Higashida is follow-up to The Reason I Jump, bestselling account of life with non-verbal autism; translation and introduction by...

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Titan secures Italian debut

The Secret Kingdom compared to The Magus; author Francesco Dimitri heralded as start of a new wave

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Nosy Crow pairs Sally Nicholls with Brett Helquist

Four-book deal for illustrated middle-grade series

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Indie signs Manhood book

Pinter & Martin to publish Manhood: The Bare Reality by artist and author Laura Dodsworth; follow-up to Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories

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BookBrunch is free for London Book Fair week

To give everyone the chance to enjoy our news and feature coverage, and our new website, at this busiest week of the UK publishing year, we have removed the paywall on all our...

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Pan Mac breaks cover with three-book deal for ex-MI5 officer

Tom Marcus signed for two fiction and one non-fiction titles

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Orwell longlist revealed

Fourteen titles picked for Orwell Prize for Books 2017 longlist

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First woman boss for RSL

The Royal Society of Literature has elected Marina Warner as its first female president

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Tour dates finalised for Varoufakis

Ex-Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis set for three-date tour for memoir, Adults in The Room

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Special 'Fleming' edition from The Book Collector

The Book Collector has announced a new Ian Fleming special issue, alongside a new '27th Letter' competition

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McDermid picks four for Harrogate

Val McDermid selects four debut novelists to join her New Blood panel at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

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Moomin crowdfunding raises £$60,000

Cash raised in a week for Moomin TV adaptation; $10,000 given by Terry Pratchett's daughter Rhianna

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Write Stuff winner 2017 picked

The LBF 2017 The Write Stuff winner was Rochelle Bugg, who won with her pitch for Help! My Mum’s Got Cancer

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LBF final wrap: deals summarised and dates set for next year

Organisers have hailed a successful London Book Fair, against a backdrop of a growing print market, and set April date for 2018

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Children's market bursts through £600m barrier

The UK children's market is in robust growth, according to exclusive Nielsen figures unveiled at London Book Fair; but separate data shows digital eroding reading primacy

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Transgender YouTuber Alex Bertie to Hachette

Debbie Foy at Wren & Rook (Hachette Children's Group) has signed the memoir of UK transgender YouTuber Alex Bertie, Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard.

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Unicorn sighted

Usborne has announced the 50th title in the internationally bestselling That's not my... series, with That's not my unicorn..., due out on 6 July

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Carnegie and Kate Greenaway shortlists unveiled

Mal Peet shortlisted posthumously; Chris Riddell in running for record fourth Medal; first translated book in the hunt, Dieter Braun's Wild Animals of the North; illustrated...

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Hodder signs debut novel from Grazia's Emily Phillips

Kate Howard at Hodder & Stoughton has signed Trying, a debut novel by Emily Phillips, Grazia magazine's features director. Hodder has world rights from literary agent Imogen...

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Wimpy Kid movie tie-in for PRH

Book of the film of the book coming in May. Written and illustrated with original cartoons by Jeff Kinney, the book is described as 'an original, behind-the-scenes look at the...

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LBF 2017: A personal view

A few observations on London Book Fair 2017

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BookMachine Works Creative Agency launched

BookMachine launches new consultancy BookMachine Works at LBF

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Launch of international publishing journal at LBF

The new, monthly International Publishing Journal was launched at London Book Fair's 2017 International Publishing Forum yesterday

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Speaking Volumes breaks ground for writers of colour at LBF

Literary production agency Speaking Volumes launched Breaking Ground: Celebrating British Writers of Colour, a publication featuring 200 British writers of colour, at LBF

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Two-book deal for Claire Kendal from HarperFiction

New novels from bestselling author of The Book of You

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Baltic states set for LBF 2018 Market Focus

Final day of London Book Fair saw Market Focus Baltic Countries 2018 launched

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Guitar guide for Penguin Life

Penguin Life has bought The Way of the Guitar by Stewart French, a virtuoso classical guitarist

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Three-book mystery deal for Simon and Schuster

Simon and Schuster UK acquires mysteries series; authors are bestselling novelist Juliet Ashton and husband; described as Midsomer Murders meets Agatha Christie

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Grand Tour for Harper

HarperCollins has pre-empted on two official companion books to Amazon's Grand Tour, presented by ex-Top Gear trio Clarkson, May and Hammond

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London book fair: not so common deal for Jarvis Cocker as publishers chase Britpop stars (Guardian) St Martin's stands by book Pill City despite questions (Poynter) Cara Delevingne is publishing her very own novel (Just Jared) Home truths from Notts' poetry publishing stars (Nottingham Post) Oxford comma helps drivers win dispute about overtime pay (Guardian) Inside the UK's first black bookshop (Londonist) Actor recites all nine hours of Amazon Kindle terms and conditions (CNET) Publishers going rogue: Bonnier’s self-pub platform (GoodEReader) Ivana Trump is publishing a book called Raising Trump (Vanity Fair) Louise Erdrich wins National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction (Seattle Times) Goldie to publish memoir with Faber (Stoney Roads)

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