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Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired the first book from Metro drinks columnist Rob Buckhaven, The Alcorithm, a "detailed and informative guide that uses flavour algorithms to reveal drinks readers will love, based on what they already enjoy".

Sphere has won a multi-publisher auction for debut author Laura Shepperson's feminist re-imagining of the trial of Phaedra.

Tributes have been paid to “tireless” book promoter and editor Jennifer Creswick, who has died aged 72. 

The Borough Press has landed a "compulsive" and "creepy" literary debut from writer Adorah Nworah.

The chairman of the high street retailer The Works, Dean Hoyle, will be stepping down from September, to be replaced by Carolyn Bradley.

Martin Compston, Tuppence Middleton, Rupert Penry-Jones and Weruche Opia are to star in the ITV adaptation of Louise Candlish's thriller, Our House (Simon & Schuster).

David Walliams and Tony Ross' Megamonster (HarperCollins) has notched up a fourth week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 23,401 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market.

Picador is to publish the second novel from Booker Prize-winning Douglas Stuart: Young Mungo, said to be about “the dangerous first love of two young Glaswegian men”. 

The Royal Society Science Book Prize has received the highest number in its 33-year-history (267), as the judging panel is revealed for the first time.

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