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Penguin Michael Joseph has signed the 'heart-pounding and captivating' four-book House of Devils series by 'romantasy superstar' Kayla Edwards

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Unbound for Gaza auction opens BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

The Unbound for Gaza auction opens today, with lots from authors including Alice Oseman, Marian Keyes, David Nicholls, RF Kuang and Julia Quinn

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The shortlist has been announced for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

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LEAP at Bonnier Books UK has won an eight-way auction for the debut memoir by Lioness goalkeeper Mary Earps

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Chris Riddell has been announced as illustrator of FRESH, the first poetry collection by Rhiannon Oliver

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Waterstones has welcomed the Booker shortlist - it's 'a gift for booksellers: it is commercially strong, highly approachable, and wide in appeal'

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The Booker Prize shortlist has been announced, with four titles for Penguin Random House

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Mary Beth Keane is moving to Phoenix for her 'breathtaking' new novel Whale Harbor

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Emma Gannon has partnered with Whitefox to rerelease her memoir - A Year of Nothing chronicles Gannon's 'fallow year' as she switches off and 'rediscovers meaning in lifeโ€™s simplest pleasures'

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A federal judge has dismissed Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against Penguin Random House and The New York Times

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Macmillan Children's Books has won a six-figure, four-publisher auction for three books by Christopher Edge, starting with How to Steal the Future - it's 'pure, aspirational, thought-provoking entertainment'

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Last night, Bonnier celebrated one year of LEAP Publishing with its inaugural showcase

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Simon & Schuster has signed Bedtime for Little Digger, the first in a calming new series to gently encourage the bedtime wind-down by Smriti Halls and Sue Hendra

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Hodder has signed Generation Desperation by Guardian journalist Alexander Hurst, a memoir of winning and losing $1 million

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The BookBrunch Interview: Sebastian Faulks speaks to Lucy Nathan about his new memoir, Fires Which Burned Brightly

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Becky Brown has joined RCW from Curtis Brown to set up a new division, RCW Legacy

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Hodder is 'delighted' to announce promotions for Nico Parfitt, Kate Norman and Lucy Buxton

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Orbit has pre-empted The Shadows that Listen, a dystopian romantasy by Louisa Carmody, in a global six-figure Hachette deal

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Bloomsbury hires top Guardian executive Keith Underwood, Chief Financial and Operating Officer at the Guardian Media Group, arrives as Bloomsbury's new Chief Financial & Operating Officer in February

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Bloomsbury has hired top Guardian executive Keith Underwood as its new Chief Financial & Operating Officer

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Q4 focus at Amazon: Neill Denny reports on the IPG conference

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NielsenIQ Bookdataโ€™s Top of the (Book) Pops - Philip Stone and Belle Edelman on The Bestsellers podcast

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The shortlists have been revealed for the 2025 Comedy Women in Print Prize

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Trump is suing Penguin Random House and the New York Times for $15 billion, accusing them of 'disparagement'

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Simon & Schuster Children's Books has signed two more titles by Andy Darcy Theo, completing his Descent into Darkness fantasy quartet

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The book trade has paid tribute to publisher and writer Sareeta Domingo, who has died suddenly - she was an 'indefatigable champion of underrepresented voices' and a 'rare and radiant force'

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Bedford Square has signed An Ocean and a Day, a memoir from author Hannah Richell

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The Bread and Roses Award has announced joint winners: Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir by Skye Arundhati Thomas and Izabella Scott, and Intervals by Marianne Brooker

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The five contenders for the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University have been revealed

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Katya Balen and Jenny Pearson are teaming up at S&S for the fantasy middle-grade series Hex and Hilda

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Hodder has won a ten-way auction for Kids, Wait Til You Hear This!, the first memoir by the iconic Liza Minnelli

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