Moves - January 8, 1999

Blackwell Retail has announced a number of appointments and promotions. Julie Purvis, currently deputy manager at Dillons in Newcastle, has been appointed manager of the shop recently acquired by Blackwells. Joan Smart, manager at the York, Stonegate shop and currently seconded to the York University bookshop, has been appointed permanently to the post of manager with immediate effect. Glyn Littlewood, previously deputy manager at the Sheffield Mappin Street bookshop, has been appointed manager of the shop with immediate effect. Allyn King, who previously worked in Blackwells' Cardiff Royal Arcade bookshop, has been promoted to manager of the Blackwells Southampton Institute bookshop with immediate effect. Gill Elliott, seconded to manage the Blackwells bookshop at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, has been appointed manager of the shop with immediate effect. Caroline Edwards, recently seconded from Oxford to manage the Blackwells University of the West of England bookshop, has been appointed manager of Sheffield Hallam University bookshop with effect from early 1999.



Barefoot Books has appointed Andrew Cope, formerly key accounts sales manager for Random House Children's Books, head of sales (UK and export markets).



I B Taurus has appointed Leah Cunnington sales and marketing assistant. She can be contacted on 0171-831 9061.



Ian Savage has been appointed to the board of Metro Publishing with particular responsibility for international sales and acquisitions. He was sales director at Penguin in the 1970s and has held managing directorships at the McGraw-Hill and Thomson corporations.



Aurum Press has appointed Sally Nown trade manager. Helen Shone has been promoted to the new position of special sales manager.



Janice Price has retired, resigning her directorships of Routledge Ltd and Routledge Inc.



The Licensing Company has appointed Lisa Shapiro director of entertainment licensing.



Jeremy Harwood, Reader's Digest deputy editor, has left the company following a restructure. He can be contacted at 23 Compton Road, London SW19 7QA (tel 0181-879 1551).



Colin Russell, formerly UK trade sales manager for educational publisher Letts, has left the company. He has decided to set up his own business within the book industry. He can be contacted on 0113 266 8010 or 0113 266 8011.



AA Publishing has appointed Simon Willis UK trade sales director. He was formerly southern area sales manager.



Obituary



Ross Higgins

Bookseller

Ross Higgins, former director of J B Wylies and John Smith & Son (Glasgow) and former president of the Booksellers Association, died peacefully early on the morning of Christmas Eve. A full obituary will appear next week.



Wanda Chappell

Publisher

Wanda Chappell, senior vice- president at Random House US, was among the victims claimed by a fire that spread from the 19th-floor apartment of film star Macaulay Culkin's family in New York. An obituary will appear next week.