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The Bookseller •

Peter Burns on his move into children's writing with Shadow Thieves

Peter Burns came up with the idea for his middle-grade novel Shadow Thieves while on holiday with his family in Highland Perthshire. “We were staying in a cottage in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forests and gorgeous mountains. I thought: ‘How cool would it be if there was a hidden school for criminals here?’” he says. A decade later, the first book about the elite international boarding school for thieves will be published by HarperCollins’ imprint Farshore on 5th June.
The Bookseller •

Tom Percival: 'I had a pretty turbulent childhood'

Tom Percival might have been illustrating and writing children’s books for almost 20 years, but this will be his first Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Speaking from inside his writing shed, Percival sounds upbeat at the prospect of joining the molto bene throng inside the BolognaFiere Exhibition Centre. “I’m hoping it’ll be a big jolly and I can sit around and eat ice cream, but my diary is looking pretty full,” he says.
The Bookseller •

Samantha Harvey's Orbital leads Booker shortlist sales surge

Orbital by British author Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape) remains the sales leader among the six books shortlisted for the Booker Prize, shifting almost 29,000 copies this year. The winner of a prize worth £50,000—among a list dominated by the highest number of women in the prize’s 55-year history—will be announced tomorow night (12th November). Sales of Harvey’s novel, which follows six astronauts aboard the International Space Station as they orbit  Earth, increased 86% from the almost 3,500...
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