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...The group represents the interests of companies in the UK including HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Pearson, Pan Macmillan and Penguin Random House....
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...A keen observer with a razor-sharp memory, le Carré was also a mimic, who did the late Queen in “a respectful but scrupulously accurate falsetto”, Harold Macmillan’s “patrician drawl” and music-hall mockney...
...Other commercial partners have also cut ties with him, including his publisher Bluebird, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, which was due to bring out a book in December, and the Curtis Brown-owned talent agency...
...Publishers once considered Wales a less fecund breeding ground for crime authors than its Celtic neighbour Scotland....
...His jovial verse can now be found in four Macmillan-published collections. He also sees value in poetry that speaks for and to new audiences....
...In 2019, after his 2018 retirement from the FT, the Royal Ballet dedicated a performance of MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet to him....
...Terry Morris, managing director of Pan Macmillan South Africa, which publishes The Gruffalo, agrees that affordability and access to books are important to improve literacy....
...Covid-19, in all it manifestations, continues to leave an impression on publishers’ schedules....
...Clinton collaborated with James Patterson on the political thriller The President is Missing, and now we have Hillary Rodham Clinton enlisting Canadian novelist Louise Penny to co-write State of Terror (Macmillan...
...Maybe the publishers ordered the omission of all scientifically approved insecticides on the market. The silent majority of gardeners still use them responsibly....
...Thomas, who is also a trustee of Yale University, has previously had senior roles at publishers including Macmillan Publishers, Nature Publishing Group and Digital Science....
...It’s easy to see why Hutton chose to limit himself to the making of Cromwell; perhaps his publisher could now convince him to finish the job....
...There’s little in the way of thrills and spills in Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s latest, Noah’s Gold (Macmillan, £12.99). What there is, instead, is plenty of wit and heart....
...If the deal passes antitrust scrutiny, it will reduce the Big Five of publishing (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster) to the Big Four....
...Bloomsbury said it has agreed to buy academic publisher Red Globe Press from Macmillan Education for up to £3.7m....
...It then merged it with the German family group Holtzbrinck’s Macmillan Science and Education, which owns the Nature journal, in a 2015 deal that valued the newly-created Springer Nature at more than €5bn...
...Over decades, a fragmented industry was whittled down to the “Big Five” publishers: Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, MacMillan and Simon & Schuster....
...Arthur, who trained as a psychiatrist but went on to own an advertising agency and a medical publisher, innovated and cajoled his way through the worlds of medicine and art....
...The sums were small by today’s standards — $2.6bn in a hostile bid for the US publisher Macmillan; $750m for Official Airline Guides — but enough to bring down his web of 800 companies, most privately held...
...Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull was published by Macmillan in 1970....
...Guardian Media Group, which publishes The Guardian and The Observer, has appointed trained scientist and publisher Annette Thomas as its new chief executive....
...She also leads the publisher’s diversity and inclusion efforts, setting a target of 45 per cent women in leadership roles by 2023....
...The DoJ said it is suing the book’s publisher, Macmillan, to ensure no funds are transferred to Snowden....
...A decade of growth has created “a much bigger pie” for all industry participants to share, says Mary Beth Roche, publisher of Macmillan Audio....
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