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Blackwell’s slipped back into a loss last year, however,
like-for-like sales at its bookshops and online were up 2.9% and the
company is able to fund its own investments, which was a “positive step”,
the chain’s c.e.o David Prescott said.
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Heron Books, an imprint of Quercus, is to be discontinued at
the end of 2016, the publisher has said.
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Frugal Innovation by Navi Radjou and Jaideep
Prabhu (Profile/Economist Books) has been named the Chartered Management
Institute’s Management Book of the Year 2016.
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Margaret Forster has died, aged 77, following a
battle with cancer in her back.
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Two books published by Difaf Publications have been
shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016, the
"leading prize for literary fiction in the Arab world".
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HarperCollins imprint 4th Estate has launched a new short
story series, 4th Shorts, which is intended to “introduce curious readers
to 4th Estate’s rich back catalogue on an easily digestible scale.”
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Yellow Kite is ushering in "a new trend to
rival crafty calmness nationwide" for those "tired of colouring
in" with The Book
of Mindful Origami.
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Sales of the Lulu series, created by publisher Anna McQuinn 10
years ago in an attempt to remedy the lack of diverse children’s books,
have hit the $1m (£700,000) turnover mark in the US.
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Black & White Publishing has acquired a new novel by Irish
writer and actress Caroline Grace-Cassidy.
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Transworld has bought a debut thriller series by A. A. Dhand,
promising "to do for Bradford what ‘The Wire’ has done for
Baltimore".
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Quadrille is to publish the companion book to the fourth
series of BBC2’s "The Great British Sewing Bee".
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired Connectography by a
leading global strategist, Parag Khanna.
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