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Frankfurt's new program with WIPO is intended to position book publishing amid accelerating content developments in the creative industries. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse Announces WIPO Partnership on Intellectual Property appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Frankfurt's new program with WIPO is intended to position book publishing amid accelerating content developments in the creative industries. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse Announces WIPO Partnership on Intellectual Property appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Bonnier Books UK has acquired an "intensely creepy" serial killer thriller debut, The Art of Death by David Fennell, to publish under the Zaffre imprint in February 2021.

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) has topped the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top 20 for a second week running, in the same week its hardback claimed a second week atop the UK Official Top 50 chart through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market.

Orion Fiction will publish Anna Mazzola’s "utterly immersive" historical novel, The Clockwork Girl.

Scholastic UK has acquired Striking Out, a novel for children based on the life of footballer Ian Wright. The title is written by Wright in partnership with Musa Okwonga.

Pan Macmillan has won a four-way auction for Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Financial Times political correspondent Sebastian Payne.

Jonathan Cape has acquired Swedish musician Neneh Cherry’s memoir, A Thousand Threads, in a 14-way auction.

The Darley Anderson Agency has opened an illustration arm that will represent artists across both children's and adult lists. 

Faber has released Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body as a paperback edition this week, after it was announced the novel has made the Booker Prize shortlist.