On Friday Random House Group publishing staff celebrated raising record breaking funds for a charity partner. Celebrations were marked with a cheque presentation by Gail Rebuck, The Random House Group Chair and CEO, for the sum of £61,469.36 to Alex Rennie, Head of Corporate and Trusts Fundraising, and Theo Coyne, Corporate Fundraiser at the charity.
On the same day more than 110 Random...
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The Random House Group won the Publisher of the Year accolade at last night's Bookseller Industry Awards 2013 held at London's Park Lane Hilton.
We were honoured with the top publishing gong, after a record breaking year which started with the publishing phenomenon that is Fifty Shades and ended with us being the UK's number 1 publisher.
In 2012 Random House achieved 28 number ones, won 70 prizes for its titles including the Nobel, Samuel Johnson and TS Eliot, and was hailed for its rapidly growing digital activity, now accounting for 22% of its UK net sales.
The award is a terrific tribute that reflects the Group's collective creativity, skill and succes...
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At the prestigious Olivier Awards on Sunday evening, the west-end adaptation of Mark Haddon's best-selling The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was presented with an incredible seven out of the eight awards it was nominated for, including Best New Play, Best Director and Best Actor.
The adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel by Simon Stephens started life at the Cottesloe Theatre last summer before transferring to the West End. The play is booking until January 2014, but it could be around a lot longer if the track record of its director Marianne Elliott - who staged the National Theatre's breakout hit War Horse - is anything to go by.
See coverage of the Awards on the BBC websi...
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A. T. Williams' A Very British Killing: the Death of Baha Mousa (Jonathan Cape) and Clive Stafford Smith's Injustice (Harvill Secker) have both been shortlisted for The Orwell Prize, Britain's leading prize for political writing.
The judges said they set out to find the book that came closest to George Orwell's ambition, "to make political writing into an art". Jean Seaton, the director of the pri...
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Six Random House Group authors have been named on Granta's 2013 list of Best of Young British Novelists, the fourth such volume produced in as many decades. Cornerstone's Jenni Fagan and five Vintage authors - Adam Thirlwell (also on the 2003 list), Adam Foulds, Evie Wyld, David Szalay and Xialou Guo - joined the list of 20.
Granta editor John Freeman said of the 2013 list: "F...
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The Random House Group and Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, hosted an exclusive reader event to coincide with London Book Fair yesterday. 'An evening with Audrey Niffenegger (author of The Time Traveler's Wife) and Deborah Moggach' (author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) was an invitation-only event in Soho for 50 of Goodreads UK members...
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William Boyd today announced that his new James Bond novel will be called Solo. The announcement came on the opening day of The London Book Fair, where Boyd is Author of the Day.
He explained his choice of title:'Sometimes less is more. For me as a novelist the simple beauty of Solo as the title of the next James Bond novel is that this short four-letter word is particularly and strikin...
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Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been announced as the winner of the Templeton Prize (worth £1.1m), an award founded as the religious equivalent to the Nobel peace prize. Tutu is a former recipient of the Nobel peace prize too.
The John Templeton Foundation describes the 40-year-old prize as the world's biggest annual monetary award for individuals. Tutu was a leading figure during South Africa's struggle against Apartheid and was instrumental in setting up The Elders, a global group of leaders who work for peace and human rights. He has also worked tirelessly for peace in Northern Ireland. On hearing of the award, Tutu said he was "totally bowled over".
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Angelmaker (William Heinemann), by Nick Harkaway, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant given by Sir Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in 1987 to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Other shortlistees include:
Nod by Adrian Barnes (Bluemoose)
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus)
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (Headline)
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
The six shortlisted titles were selected from a record-breaking long list of 82 individual el...
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Wonder, the charming and inspiring debut by R.J. Palacio has been awarded the prize for Best Fiction for 5-12s at the Waterstones Children's Book Awards.
Wonder is the unforgettable, life-affirming and internationally bestselling story of August Pullman - a boy who is desperate to blend in, but is destined to stand out because of the way he looks.
The purpose of the awards, first introduced in 2005, is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is only open to authors who have published no more than three books.
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