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Milnes-Smith joins LAW as literary agent
Philippa Milnes-Smith, former managing director of Puffin, has has joined the LAW (Lucas Alexander Whitley) agency as a director specialising in children's publishing and media. Full story in Children's Book News next week.
T&F snaps up Curzon
Taylor & Francis has purchased London-based Curzon Press, the Asian and Middle Eastern studies publisher, for £1.35m. Curzon owner Malcolm Campbell will remain with the company, which will be integrated into Taylor & Francis' social science unit as RoutledgeCurzon. Curzon made £88,000 pretax profit on sales of £1.1m last year.
Medea wins Saltire
Liz Lochhead's Medea (Nick Hern Books) has won the £5,000 Book of the Year Award in Scotland's prestigious Saltire Literary Awards. In The Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt (Bloomsbury) won the Consignia/Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Alastair Mann's The Scottish Book Trade 1500–1720 (Tuckwell Press) won the National Library of Scotland/Saltire Research Book of the Year Award.
Writers judge Orwell
Authors Peter Hennessy and Marina Warner will judge next year's Orwell Prize for political writing. The chair will be Bernard Crick, who helped to establish the prize in 1993 with royalties from his George Orwell: A Life (Penguin).
Philippa Milnes-Smith, former managing director of Puffin, has has joined the LAW (Lucas Alexander Whitley) agency as a director specialising in children's publishing and media. Full story in Children's Book News next week.
T&F snaps up Curzon
Taylor & Francis has purchased London-based Curzon Press, the Asian and Middle Eastern studies publisher, for £1.35m. Curzon owner Malcolm Campbell will remain with the company, which will be integrated into Taylor & Francis' social science unit as RoutledgeCurzon. Curzon made £88,000 pretax profit on sales of £1.1m last year.
Medea wins Saltire
Liz Lochhead's Medea (Nick Hern Books) has won the £5,000 Book of the Year Award in Scotland's prestigious Saltire Literary Awards. In The Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt (Bloomsbury) won the Consignia/Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Alastair Mann's The Scottish Book Trade 1500–1720 (Tuckwell Press) won the National Library of Scotland/Saltire Research Book of the Year Award.
Writers judge Orwell
Authors Peter Hennessy and Marina Warner will judge next year's Orwell Prize for political writing. The chair will be Bernard Crick, who helped to establish the prize in 1993 with royalties from his George Orwell: A Life (Penguin).
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