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REVIEW OF THE YEAR

... receivership. . In June MacPhersons, §n Australian industrial group, bought IXW Thorpe, which for 66 years had beep, so to speak, Whitaker's Australian cougfterpart. Pentos paid £4-1m for a freehold site in Oxford’s Cornmarket to open a bookshop there: ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1161 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Sunday trading

... estimated that the closures amounted to nearly £200,000 a year in lost trade. Timothy Renton, Minister of State, Home Office, speaking at the Conservative Party conference in October, reaffirmed the government’s intention to introduce legislation to reform ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

The ban on Sunday trading continued, although the Sunday Sports Bill, which would allow for racing and other ..

... estimated that the closures amounted to nearly £200,000 a year in lost trade. Timothy Renton, Minister of State, Home Office, speaking at the Conservative Party conference in October, reaffirmed the government’s intention to introduce legislation to reform ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

THE BOOKSELLER 8 JANUARY 1988

... Telegraph Sunday magazine (17), Sunday Express magazine (17), Woman's Own (15), Mavis on 4 (15), Good Housekeeping (Feb); speaking engagements in London, Leeds, Dublin, Bristol, Manchester, Norwich. Emily Prager, Clea and Zeus Divorce (Chatto, 14 Jan, ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 579 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

Tom Wolfe, first novelist

... Tom Wolfe, first novelist You need a codeword to get to speak to Tom Wolfe. The pioneer of “new journalism” and author of such famous nonfiction works as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Painted Wordand The Right Stuff has written his first novel ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 335 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

OBITUARY Gerard Bonnier Tom Rosenthal writes:

... but one of the greatest in Europe. Indeed Bonniers had few peers, until the recent spate of mergers, even in the English speaking world. I began my own relationship with the Bonnier group nearly 30 years ago, when Georg Svensson, their great editorial ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 491 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

An Ocean Apart David Dimbleby & David Reynolds

... memories of those who influenced or witnessed great events. And italso ~ traces the cultural cross-fertilisation the two English-speaking peoples have enjoyed from movies and the production line to pop music and the Royal Family. An i~ 1 Eight part peak time ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 184 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

wonderful offering in Isabel Allende’s Of Love and Shadows; she wrote The House of the Spirits. Penguin has a new

... Christmas and will be again next Christmas, | think, achieving even higher sales since the area is closer to home. The rest speak for themselves, the Ballard and Murdoch being good upmarket sellers. The Lena Kennedy has an early Stuart setting which will ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

Price, J H (Intro): Cook's Continental Timetable: David &

... Warner, P: Fi From Ships to Star Wars: Grafton mum&:v&ysd David & Charles. Winton, John: Ultra at Sea: Heinemann. Yorke, M: Speak for the Dead: Century. 3 : The Diaries of Lord Loui: Ziegler, lx?a‘m?d by) ies of ouis Books Ordered Since 10/12/87 Cheap Eats ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: 92 | Tags: none

Pervasive plastic cuts the profits

... to be on the increase. “Used more extensively than ever, accounting for 25 per cent of December sales,” said Roger Coles, speaking for the Blackwells’ Oxford shops. Kirsten Schlesinger noted an even higher proportion across Hatchards’ branches, averaging ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

Whom is Bookbank for?

... as ‘“‘our customers don't fit into neat and tidy categories”, says Mary Stevenson, Whitaker's marketing manager. Broadly speaking, however, Whitaker reckons that the market is those customers currently using BBlP—on microfiche who also use some computer ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

Expolangues

... exhibitors, who have always included a number of UK publishers, to target their promotion to the 50 per cent of French people who speak no foreign languages and will therefore be feeling increasingly unequipped as 1992 approaches. At least 40,000 visitors are ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1988
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 18 | Tags: none