RHCP is delighted to announce the revival of the fiction strand within its Jonathan Cape Children’s Books imprint. The list will be led by Annie Eaton, Fiction Publisher at RHCP. Authors already published by the Jonathan Cape Children’s Books imprint include Quentin Blake, John Burningham, Joan Aiken and Roald Dahl, together with a new generation of award winning talent such as illustrators Louise Yates, Nadia Shireen and Rebecca Patterson. It is anticipated that the first fiction titles will be published in Jonathan Cape Children’s Books in late 2013.
Annie Eaton comments: ‘Having grown up reading some of the magical Jonathan Cape books, it is a great pr...
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BBC Books have donated £170,000 to Comic Relief this year from sales of The Great Comic Relief Bake Off booklet published in January in association with Love Productions. The figure was announced on Friday evening during Comic Relief: Funny for Money, BBC1.
Paul Sowerbutts, Publishing Director, BBC Books said "We are delighted with the fantastic sales of The Great Comic Relief Bake Off ...
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The Random House Group has been shortlisted in four categories (below) for The Bookseller Industry awards, which will be announced on May 13th.Click here for the full list.Publisher of the YearDK Faber and Faber The Folio Society HarperCollins Pan Macmillan Penguin Orion Publishing Group The Random House Group Digital Strategy of the YearBloomsbury Publishing Harlequin UK Kobo Nosy Crow Penguin Pottermore Orion Publishing Group The Random House Group Imprint and Editor of the YearVenetia Butterfield; Viking Alessandro Gallenzi; Alma Books/Alma Classics Nicholas Pearson; Fourth Estate Matt Phillips; Yellow Jersey Press Selina Walker; Arrow Books Rowena Webb; Hodder & Stoughton Non-Fi...
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The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Prize) has been announced with seven Random House Group titles featured.For one year only the award will be called the Women's Prize for Fiction, funded by several companies and individuals including Cherie Blair, Martha Lane Fox and Joanna Trollope.This year 140 writers entered and 20 were longlisted by a panel chaired by actor Miranda Richardson which includes BBC journalist Razia Iqbal, writer Rachel Johnson and novelist JoJo Moyes. They will now decide a shortlist and announce the winner in June, by which time the prize should have a new sponsor for next year.Random House titles on the longlist are:Kitty Aldridge A Trick I Le...
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The British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) have announced that cook, author and broadcaster Delia Smith CBE will be presented with a BAFTA Special Award during a tribute event on 30 April at BAFTA's headquarters in London.
The Award is in honour of Delia's outstanding contribution to television cookery and services to broadcasting. 'A BAFTA Tribute: Delia Smith' will celebrate her body of work over the last 40 years. Delia said "I'm very proud to receive this honour from BAFTA as I've been a passionate movie buff ever since I was a small child, and television broadcasting has been a huge part of my life..."
Delia Smith has sold over 21 million books worldwide.
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At the annual NME Awards on Wednesday 27th February, amidst wins for Florence and the Machine, The Maccabees and The Rolling Stones, Mike Skinner's memoir The Story of the Streets scooped the NME Best Book Award 2013 and the coveted middle finger trophy!
The Story of the Streets will be published in paperback by Corgi on the 28th March.
Click here for full details of the awards.
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Ebury author, Emma Kennedy, will be participating in the 25 Hour Show for Comic Relief which kicks off at 11am on Thursday 7th March. She'll be in a tent on stage at London's Pleasance Theatre for the entire 25 hours (allegedly peeing in a bucket which, if you've read The Tent, The Bucket and Me, will be pretty hilarious).
The show, which sold out in 4 minutes, will be hosted by marathon show veteran and comedian Mark Watson and live-streamed via the Red Nose website. Click here to add to Emma's fundraising.
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The five category winners of this year's Romantic Novelists' Association Awards were announced by Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley at a glittering reception in London this week. For the second year running Cornerstone's Katie Fforde was the winner of the Contemporary Romantic Novel award, with Rowan Coleman receiving the Epic Romantic Novel award.RHCP's Victoria Lamb won the Y...
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Not only did Random House Children's Publishers have two shortlisted titles in the 'Books for Younger Children' category at the Red House finals, which were hosted at the Imagine Festival on Saturday 23rd February, but one of our nominations won the overall award for 2013.Spooky, Spooky House by Andrew Weale and Lee Wildish came out on top against some seriously stiff competition, including fiction titles like David Walliams' Gangsta Granny.After the ceremony, the fantastic author-illustrator duo Andrew and Lee were interviewed by young reviewers from the Guardian Children's Books site. Then, on Sunday 24th February, they appeared on BBC Breakfast to talk about their win - watched ...
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The 2013 Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlist was released today, including two exceptional titles from Random House Children's Publishers. Wonder by R.J. Palacio and Seraphina by Rachel Hartman have been shortlisted in the Fiction 5-12 and Teen categories, respectively. The authors, who were both debut novelists of 2012 with RHCP, are delighted with the news.W...
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