Trade

Canelo is taking on titles currently released by The Dome Press, a publisher set up by agent and bookseller David Headley.

Avon has signed The Real Thing from Mandy Byatt in a two-book deal.

Printing on demand and bookshops' returns policies are two major areas of the industry that need to be addressed to move the trade towards a more sustainable operation, delegates at the Independent Publishers Guild conference heard on Wednesday. 

Tayari Jones, Joanna Trollope and Kathy Reichs are among the authors selected for Richard & Judy's Christmas Book Club, which this year is dominated by thrillers. 

Bluebird has swiped a guide to online dating and text communication from Facebook's former in-house psychiatrist Dr Mimi Winsberg.

Lee Brackstone, publisher at White Rabbit, has acquired world all-language rights for Medical Grade Music directly from authors Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi.

Anna Burns has become the first author from Northern Ireland to win the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award.

Author Jane Porter and illustrator Maisie Paradise Shearring have won the £2,000 Little Rebels Award for their children's book, The Boy who Loved Everyone (Walker Books). 

This year's Crime Writers' Association Awards sees Michael Robotham land the Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, while Trevor Wood scoops the New Blood Dagger for best novel by a first time author. 

Six books will vie to win the 42nd Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year.