Three Oxford-based groups of publishing workers are launching a survey to explore the experience of working from home and how work patterns might change after lockdown.
HarperFiction plucks King’s Bad Fruit in five-way auction
HarperFiction has snapped up debut author and Faber Academy graduate Ella King's "beautiful, shocking" Bad Fruit in a five-way auction.
Cast confirmed for TV version of Rooney’s Conversations with Friends
Actors Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Jemima Kirke and Joe Alwyn are to star in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel, Conversations with Friends (Faber.)
Bookstore sales fell 28% in 2020
Feb 17 2021 Bookstore sales rallied slightly in December from deep monthly slumps for most of 2020, but were still down 15.2% in the last month of the year compared to December 2019. For all of 2020, bookstore sales fell 28.3% from 2019, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. For the entire retail segment, sales for the year were up 0.6%, with December sales ahead 4.2%. Source: Publishers Weekly More News Stories
Hodder & Stoughton to publish Paris Fury memoir
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired Paris Fury's autobiography, Love and Fury, which will tell the story of her life as a Traveller and wife of boxer Tyson Fury.
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for February 17, 2021
Today's Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday's most popular deals Previous Daily Deals And Still I Rise by Henry Louis Gates Jr. for $2.99 Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh for $1.99 Infinity Son by Adam Silvera for $2.99 A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer for $1.99 The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh for $2.99 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green for $1.99 The Stars and the Blackness Between Them for Junauda Petrus for $2.99 Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao for $1.99 All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson for $2.99 The Lager...
Quarto refinances to ‘focus on growth’
Quarto has signed a new $20m bank facility, as well as extending $13m in loans it received in 2018 and getting a new $10m loan.
Dimbleby’s ‘definitive’ Operation Barbarossa history to Viking
Viking has snared a “definitive” history of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union, from broadcaster and author Jonathan Dimbleby.
Europa gets Midas touch for Perrin’s Italian lockdown hit
Europa Editions UK is working with Midas for the first time to launch the paperback of Italian sensation Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin in June.
Scholastic to bring Callender’s Hurricane Child to UK
Scholastic UK has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Kacen Callender's Hurricane Child, with publication slated for June 2021.
