... New Waterstone’s is not just for Christmas If you can bear to, open the Sun tomorrow. You will see a little piece of history: Waterstone’s advertising. Actually, it’s an advertorial and it’s a one-off, part of a bigger Christmas campaign which also uses ...

... New Higson and Horowitz hardbacks drive Christmas Caroline Horn Gift sales of Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson’s latest novels have rocketed this Christmas season after their publishers moved them into hardback. Chains and independent bookshops both ...

... Illustrated Labyrinth and Pi Alison Bone and Katherine Rushton Orion is to publish an illustrated version of Kate Mosse’s number one bestseller Labyrinth. The move targets a growing appetite among consumers for illustrated editions of popular books, led ...

... Illustrated books for capital men A French-based venture offering illustrated titles for the stylish urban male launches this month. Fitway, published by Presses-Solar-Belfond /Editis (www.fitwaypublishing. com), will publish titles simultaneously in ...

... OF CHRISTMAS CouNTRY LIFE asked PROF RONALD HUTTON, world expert on British ritual, to set a multiple-choice quiz about the origins of icons of the British Christmas Illustrations by Matthew Rice 1 Who erected the first Christmas 4 Who sent the first ...

... I, BOOKSELLER: MONTGOMERY BRIGHT Father Christmas’ little helper ILLUSTRATION BY IMARIE HÉLÈNE JEEVES 9 a.m. Christmas is a funny thing.lf you ask our head office,they think it starts in October.lf you ask a publisher,they say they have a balanced publishing ...

... appear in stockings is Winnie. Winnie’s New Computer by Valerie Thomas and Corky Paul (OUP, available, £10.99, 019279129 X) is another quirkily illustrated adventure of the dear witch who we find is delighted with her new technology—but,of course, problems ...

... The tightrope that is Christmas As Christmas nears, the book trade is finely poised. For most publishers, booksellers and—lest we forget—authors, the next nine days will make or break their year. The bait is out in all its seasonal glory; but will the ...

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... sellers this Christmas, with Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs Gift Set (David & Charles, £9.99, 1862332274) by lan Whybrow, and illustrated by Adrian Reynolds, considered good value, “ An ler Alex O'Neil at Waterstone’s in Gower Street, London, says: “Books ...

... with Little Hippo, using the new words he has learnt. Jill Tomlinson’s classic The Owl Who Was Afvaid of the Dark, which still sells about 35,000 copies a year, now appears in a shortened picture book version illustrated by Paul Howard (Mammoth, October ...

... The top titles for Christmas Children’s buyer, Borders UK 28 The Bookseller | 15 September 2006 angela lockton Store manager, The Golden Treasury, London Last Christmas one of our strongest selling titles was a pop-up book, Encyclopedia Prehistorica: ...