A round-up of news from the publishing industry this week:
Arthur C. Clarke, best known for his 2001: A Space Odyssey, dies at 90.
Exiled Taslima Nasreen will leave India after complaining of poor treatment
15 years after being stabbed during a match, Monica Seles will write her autobiography for Penguin.
The Longlist for the 2008 Orange Prize is announced. Newcomers [...]
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British discount store ‘The Works’ is to close 85 shops. Find out if your local one is on the list - mine is spare, thank goodness. Better go and pick up more art material while they’re still around.
Download a free copy of Caroline Smailes’ ‘Disraeli Avenue’. In return, she asks that you make a donation [...]
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It’s Monday. Time to shake off that weekend feeling and get back to the business of reading and writing.
If you’re a bookcrossing fan, look out for free copies of Black Rabbit Summer, a teen thriller by Kevin Brooks. One hundred copies of the book have been released ‘into the wild’ (a bookcrossing term for leaving [...]
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