This week brings new fiction from Kazuo Ishiguro, Sister Souljah, and Danielle Steel, as well as four titles that were featured in our Buzz Books: Gregory Brown’s The Lowering Days, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary, and Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country (YA). Meanwhile, Isabel Allende and Anne Lamott anchor the week’s…
Lagardere Signals Openness to a “Change in Sponsorship”
While announcing Lagardere’s annual results last week, ceo Arnaud Lagardere dangled the possibility of a change to the corporate structure of his company, which is currently controlled by Lagardere’s private holding company. During the Q&A for analysts, Lagardere explained that no decision had been made regarding a sale or change of sponsorship: “I’m the one…
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David Graham has joined Quarto Group UK as ceo. He was previously managing director of Pavillion Books. Zana Hanks becomes Pavillion’s acting managing director, with Quarto selling and distributing Pavillion (via Hachette Books) starting March 29. Graham told The Bookseller, “I am very excited to be joining the Quarto Group UK at this pivotal time…
March Picks
Today show host Jenna Bush Hager’s Read With Jenna March pick is What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster. The Costco Pennie’s Pick for March is Whistling Past the Graveyard, by Susan Crandall. The PBS NewsHour-New York Times Now Read This book club chose Jessica Bruder‘s Nomadland for both March and April. Amazon‘s Spotlight pick is also…
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Bill Hamilton will join Celadon Books as executive editor, starting April 5, where he will acquire “nonfiction with a focus on politics and history.” He was most recently Washington editor at The New York Times. Nathalie Le Du has been promoted to publisher of Odd Dot, reporting to Jen Besser, president of Macmillan Children’s Publishing. Newly reporting to Le…
E L James to Move Backlist to New Sourcebooks Imprint for Entrepreneurial Women
Author of the Fifty Shades Trilogy and other titles E L James will have her entire backlist distributed by Sourcebooks in print and ebooks starting April 1. James is the “keystone author” in a new imprint providing a “joint publishing model” to “entrepreneurial women authors who want to benefit from all that a top publisher…