Fwd: BookBrunch Daily Newsletter - 29/09/2017 - Bookshop Day 2017 events unveiled

In commemoration of Nigeria 57th Annual Independence Day  celebration; with speculations about a national curfew. Lets love one another. lets put aside our differences in one accord to proclaim 'Enough is ENOUGH to the crisis perpetrated by selfish blood thirsty politicians'!! We are Nigeria, One People; One Nation.

    Correspondent Gerald Oche {KSMC/NUJ}

Your daily serving of news and views - Organisers predict around 2,000 shops will stage events on Bookshop Day, October 7

Daily News 29th September 2017 Welcome to today's newsletter Subscribe here Bookshop Day 2017 events unveiled Organisers predict around 2,000 shops will stage events on Bookshop Day, October 7 Read more... World Book Day 2018 takes shape 1 March will see 'The Biggest Bookshop on Earth,' specially-commissioned books and World Book Day award Read more... 2018 Quick Reads titles revealed Fern Britton, Dorothy Koomson, Mark Billingham, Kit de Waal, Tammy Cohen and Vaseem Khan lined up for next year's Quick Reads, to be... Read more... Hardman & Swainson celebrates at the Water Poet Packed fifth birthday party for growing agency Read more... Markus Dohle set for Frankfurt keynote Penguin Random House's ceo will give the keynote speech at the opening press conference of the Frankfurter Buchmesse on 10 October Read more... Bath Novel Award winner signs for riverrun Kim Sherwood's debut Testament snapped up by Rose Tomaszewska Read more... Tony Lothian Prize 2017 shortlist Biographies of WS Graham and Michael Arlen among contenders for prize for uncommissioned biographer Read more... Faber pre-empts for The Rapture 'Mesmerising' debut by Claire McGlasson bought via PFD Read more... Cancer science title for Weidenfeld 2020 publishing date for in-depth study of cancer, and the battle against it, by leading specialist Dr Kat Arney Read more... New partners for the BBC short story awards University of Cambridge and First Story announced as partners for the BBC National Short Story Award, the BBC Young Writers' Award and the BBC Student Critics' Award, in a... Read more... Funding available for Scottish publishers Round 2 of Publishing Scotland's Go See Grants underway Read more... Publishing contract for Sweek winner 16 year-old Swiss girl wins Sweek's #SchreibMitRavensburger writing contest and earns contract with Ravensburger Read more... New David Walliams for Christmas £12.99 hardback Bad Dad set for November release by HarperCollins Children's Books Read more... Cressida Cowell toasts Wizard success Party at author's house to celebrate Cowell's first number 1 as The Wizards of Once tops the charts Read more... Head of Zeus author wins Irish prize Elizabeth Reapy takes the €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2017 with her debut Red Dirt Read more... Tagholm's take - the week in books at 29 September 2017 Roger Tagholm, in association with the London Book Fair, on calls to promote publishers' social roles, Banned Books Week, and other book trade news Read more... Oxford University Press forced to defend 'X-rated scene' in children's book (Telegraph) Marcel Proust paid for reviews praising his work to go into newspapers (Guardian) Kenyan publishers worry over drop in book sales (Daily Nation) 11 great authors who wrote for Hugh Hefner's Playboy (BBC) You are receiving this newsletter because you signed up at BookBrunch.co.uk. Not interested anymore? Change your subscription Problem viewing this email? View it in a browser Design by BDS Digital