Also on BookBrunch today

• Tagholm's Take - the news in books at 3 April 2020

  News

  Roger Tagholm, in association with the London Book Fair, on a book trade transformed
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• Editorial director promotion for Rhiannon Smith

  News - Publishing

  Smith to work across Little, Brown's Fleet and Sphere imprints; acquisitions include Lucy Watson's vegan cookbooks, Stubborn Archivist and Wine Girl
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• Seven Dials signs Vinnie Jones

  Rights - NonFiction

  'Powerful memoir of loss and love' from uncompromising ex-footballer, whose wife died of cancer last year
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• Dog's tale for Mirror Books

  Rights - NonFiction

  The Miraculous Life of Maggie the Wunderdog tells the story of blind rescue dog Maggie, tortured and shot 18 times, and now an Instagram sta
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• Life of pies for Bloomsbury

  Rights - NonFiction

  The Pie Room is a cookery book by top pie chef Calum Franklin
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• Feminist desk diary from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Rights - NonFiction

  Fourth Estate to publish 2021 diary by bestselling author
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• Uclan signs Andy Robb YA title

  Rights - Children

  Smashed is from the author of the Geekhood series, the first of which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Award
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• The Reader magazine relaunches

  News - Publishing

  Now a biannual, the magazine aimes to inspire 'a deeper connection between literature and life'
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• World Book Night 2020 - the show will go online

  News - Books

  Reading connects a nation in self-isolation, say organisers, and the national campaign will go ahead on 23 April with digital to the fore
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• Puffin goes online to side-step school closures

  News - Children

  Online storytellings and home activities to reach house-bound children
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• Springer Nature opens access to more than 500 textbooks

  News - Academic

  Niels Peter Thomas: 'We want to support lecturers, teachers and students during this challenging period'
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• Pip and Egg goes to Scholastic

  Rights - Children

  Alex Latimer and David Litchfield team up for 'poignant' picture book
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• Julia Donaldson launches weekly broadcast

  News - Children

  Donaldson was joined by her husband Malcolm and illustrator Axel Scheffler
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• Scholastic signs gothic middle grade series by Jenni Jennings

  Rights - Children

  Malice in Underland: 'The Addams Family for the Billie Eilish generation'
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• Amazing Muslims Who Changed the World goes to Puffin

  Rights - Children

  The book highlights 'the phenomenal contributions Muslims have made to our history'
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• The BookBrunch Interview: Lee Brackstone, publisher of White Rabbit

  News - Interviews

  What’s it like to start an imprint during a global pandemic? Julie Vuong asks the publisher of White Rabbit, which launches today from Orion, about immediate and long-term...
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• Walker and Anna McNuff team up for adventuring guide

  Rights - Children

  100 Adventures to Have Before You Grow Up is on sale now
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• Hachette Children's Group buys Moon Dog by Jane Elson

  Rights - Children

  Middle-grade story is inspired by campaign behind Lucy's Law
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• What We're Reading - 3 April 2020

  News - Books

  The BookBrunch team reveals what's on their bedside tables
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• Never so relevant: International Children's Books Day 2020

  Opinion - Children

  
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• Multi-tasking: from Maxwell House to Mortmain Hall

  Opinion - Books

  As his latest novel comes out, 2020 CWA Diamond Dagger winner Martin Edwards reflects on his varied career
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