Philip Patrick has joined Amazon as senior leader, rights and licensing. He was most recently with Crown as publisher of Three Rivers Press and publisher of ebooks and digital content.
Severn House, Canongate Books and Granta Publications will now be digitally distributed by Ingram‘s Coresource.
The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been announced, with the winner to be named in late May:
SERIOUS MEN by Manu Joseph (John Murray)
COMFORT AND JOY by India Knight (Fig Tree)
THE COINCIDENCE ENGINE by Sam Leith (Bloomsbury)
THE NEWS WHERE YOU ARE by Catherine O’Flynn (Penguin)
SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart (Granta)