Congratulations to Random House authors who were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
The roll call of 1,180 names included Transworld author Joanne Harris (MBE for honours for services to literature), Ebury author Dylan Jones (OBE for services to the publishing and the British fashion industry) and Vintage author and the president of Wolfson College at Oxford Universit...
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The Random House Group has been awarded a prestigious Employee Benefits award for its work-life balance strategy at a London ceremony on Friday (7th June).
Announcing the results at a London Awards ceremony (June 7th), the judges said they were impressed by Random House's approach to helping its employees to achieve the most effective work-life pattern by creating a culture of commitment to ...
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The Random House Group today announced the launch of Bookmarks - its first online consumer insight panel which will give instant access to thousands of readers' views.
Readers will be invited to join Bookmarks by signing up via www.my-bookmarks.co.uk. Using regular surveys, polls and discussions, readers will share their views on wide ranging topics, from book discovery, digital con...
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg visited the Random House offices in Vauxhall Bridge Road as part of his new ‘Opening Doors’ campaign to make access to jobs fair and open for all talented young people. DPM Nick Clegg teamed up with entrepreneur and former Dragon’s Den judge James Caan to launch the campaign to encourage companies to sign up and open their doors to young...
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I.J. Kay's Mountains of the Moon (Jonathan Cape) has won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2013. The award is presented to the most promising debut novel issued by a British publisher in the previous year and is worth £2500.
The award was announced last night by Salley Vickers. Mountains of the Moon shares the prize with Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers (Sceptre).
Kerry Hudson's Tony Hogan Bought me an Ice Cream Float before he Stole my Ma (Chatto) was also shortlisted for the prize.
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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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