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News stories from the book world in April 2006

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'They're killing literature'

24 April 2006

A recent article in The Australian highlights the problem facing literary fiction writers in Australia. Brian Castro, prize-winning author of six novels, had difficulty in getting his seventh novel, Shanghai Dancing, into print.  Read more

UK book sales grow by 8%

10 April 2006

Recent figures from Book Marketing's annual Books and the Consumer study show encouraging growth in UK book sales of 8% in value in 2005, compared to 3% in 2004. The report, which is based on a rolling questionnaire of 10,000 people aged 17 to 74, estimated that book buyers spent £2.3bn on books in 2005. In adult books the growth of 3% in both volume and value led to sales of 238   Read more

Bologna still focused on fiction

3 April 2006

This year's Bologna Children's Book Fair came uncomfortably soon after the London Book Fair for the publishers who attended both. Bologna was hot but mercifully uncrowded and a very much more pleasant destination for hard-pressed international publishers than London's ExCel.  Read more