Trade

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Sphere has acquired a "heartwarming" up-lit novel by Rosie Blake, The Gin O’Clock Club, inspired by the author's own "naughty and amazing" Grandad.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson has signed Men at War, a "radical queering of military history" from The Quietus co-founder Luke Turner.

Piatkus is publishing Gabriella Braun's "wise and humane exploration of workplace psychology".

When Amazon accounts for at least 40% if not half of US book sales, independent bookstores in the US are looking to stay afloat using a combination of innovation, mobility, as well as a little taste of Amazon’s own medicine. 

Lantana has appointed Holly Tonks to be its editor-at-large for picture books.

Ruth Jones will be embarking on a UK tour to celebrate the publication of her new novel Us Three in a collaboration between Fane and Transworld. The tour, combining a Fane-produced theatre tour with bookshop events organised by Transworld, will comprise seven dates across the UK. It begins at London’s Alexandra Palace on 10th May and concludes at Sevenoaks Bookshop on 19th May.

Would you walk up to an author at a book event, or on the street, and tell them how much you hated their book? No? But by creating a public work of art, surely authors are opening themselves up to scrutiny and should be prepared to take the rough with the smooth?

If ever there were two words to strike fear into the hearts and minds of the trade in the run-up to the London Book Fair, the charmless duo “social distancing” would surely be it.

The US teams of Simon & Schuster and Macmillan will not be attending the London Book Fair this year after health and safety fears following the coronavirus outbreak.