Gail Rebuck, Chairman and CEO, The Random House Group, has been named as one of the top 10 most powerful women in the UK, according to a BBC survey.A panel of judges compiled a list of the country's 100 most influential females for Radio 4's Woman's Hour. The Queen was named as the most powerful woman, followed by Home Secretary Theresa May and Santander bank boss Ana Botin. Dame Rebuck was named ...
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The Crime Writers' Association has awarded the 2013 Diamond Dagger will to Transworld's Lee Child.The Diamond Dagger, voted for by CWA members, celebrates an author with an outstanding body of work in crime fiction. Past winners include Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, and Elmore Leonard. In 2012 the award went Frederick Forsyth, also a Transworld author.Chair of the CWA Peter James said: 'Lee is on...
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The Political book awards saw three Random House Group authors win awardsIan McEwan's Sweet Tooth (Jonathan Cape), won Political Fiction Book of the Year, which was presented by judge and Cornerstone author Alastair Campbell. Meanwhile the Political History Book of the Year award was given to Fascist Voices by Christopher Duggan (Bodley Head)The evening's most poignant mom...
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Transworld Publishers are delighted to announce that they have acquired Longbourn by Jo Baker; a story of Pride and Prejudice below stairs. "Jane Austen was my first experience of grown-up literature," says author, Jo Baker "But as I read and re-read her books, I began to become aware that if I'd been living at the time, I wouldn't have got to go to the ball; I would have been stuck at home with the sewing. Just a few generations back, my family were in service. Aware of that English class thing, Pride and Prejudice begins to read a little differently.”2013 is the bicentennial anniversary of Pride & Prejudice, and Longbourn will be published by Doubleda...
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This year the CWA Dagger in the Library award is sponsored for the first time by The Random House Group's new online crime community Dead Good. Across a dedicated Dead Good website, Facebook page, Twitter account and more, Dead Good has engaging features, interviews, competitions and quizzes as well as the latest news around books, film and TV. It provides an opportunity for readers to...
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Sir Terry Leahy is the interviewee on this week's Desert Island Discs on Radio 4. He talks about the Beatles, being crippled by shyness as a youngster, running away from school, what family means to him and how the fear of failure helped him to run a large corporation.
The interview will be broadcast again on Friday at 0900 on Radio 4. Sir Terry's book, Management in 10 Words will be published in paperback on 14 March by Random House Business Books.
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This Summer, RHCP will publish the first in a series of books supporting CBeebies' Woolly and Tig , which will include picture books, sticker, activity, novelty and ebook formats.RHCP have partnered with Tattiemoon, producers of the show, to bring out an exciting range of pre-school publishing that invites readers to join Tig and her cuddly toy spider Woolly, as they explore the fee...
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Translator Howard Curtis has won the Marsh Award for his translation of Fabio Geda's In The Sea There Are Crocodiles.In The Sea There Are Crocodiles tells the true story of 10-year-old Enaiatollah Akbadi who escapes Taliban-occupied Afghanistan for asylum in Italy. It was described by Marsh judge Wendy Cooling as "a book to inspire and nourish young people".The Marsh Award was founded in 1996 in an attempt to tackle the shortage of books in translation.In an interview with the Guardian, Curtis said his task was not simply to translate a novel but to preserve the spirit of the original story. "In translating the book I had to remember that this was a story told aloud by someone talk...
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Random House Children's Publishers are delighted to announce that The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas has won the Publishing Innovation Award for Best Ebook in the Children's category at the Digital Book World Conference in New York last night.The Publishing Innovation Awards honor the most innovative ebooks, enhanced ebooks, and book apps in several categories. It is the mission of the PIAs to highlight excellent publishers and authors, encourage new thinking, and improve the reading experience in the digital age. The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas fought off stiff competition from favourites such as SpongeBob Squarepants.The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmaswritten by Tom F...
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Dan Brown's new novel, Inferno, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his No.1 international blockbuster, The Lost Symbol, will be published on May 14th 2013 in hardcover at £20.00 and will be available as an ebook and on CD audio from Random House audio.
The new book features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and is set in the heart of Europe. There, he is drawn into a harrowing world centred on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces.
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