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Guardian Bookshop bought out 16


NEWS REVIEW


ONLINE RETAIL


The Guardian Bookshop has been bought by its former head of books Sara Montgomery pictured and its former e-commerce manager Nick Sidwell. The pair have founded Monwell Limited and agreed a deal with Guardian News & Media to take over the online retailer with immediate effect. The newspaper group is restructuring its business as part of a three- year plan to reduce costs by 20% (£50m); it has so far resulted in the closure of its dedicated children’s books website, the end of the Guardian First Book Prize and numerous redundancies. Montgomery said the business would continue


to trade as The Guardian Bookshop and retain the support of the Guardian and Observer newspapers, with all book reviews and features in print and online directing readers to the shop. Its stock, warehousing and distribution will continue to be provided by Bertrams. Montgomery said: “The Guardian Bookshop has had fantastic success in recent years and we are thrilled to now be running it as Monwell Limited. We


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are keen to work closely with publishers to help them reach our book-loving audience.” The outlet was relaunched in October 2014 with a


“significantly improved” design, which saw sales leap 81% year on year. Sales were up by 10% last year, with the retailer shifting more than 150,000 units. Monwell’s third employee is marketing manager Joe Wheelan, who has joined from the Guardian. Guardian Faber, a literary non-fiction imprint launched by the titular duo in 2013, was not included in the deal.


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RIGHTS DEALS


CHILD TO MAN(TLE) Mantle has pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights to Rhiannon Navin’s début novel Only Child in a “good


six-figure deal”. Associate publisher Sam Humphreys signed the deal through Lorella Belli at the Lorella Belli Agency, acting on behalf of Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management. Only Child opens as seven-year-old Zach hides in a primary school cloakroom while a gunman rampages outside, and explores the incident and its aftermath as Zach tries to make sense of his experience. The UK publication date is yet to be confirmed.


IN A BLOOMIN’ RUT Bloomsbury has acquired historian and journalist Rutger Bregman’s début after a “heated auction”. Publishing


director Alexis Kirschbaum acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the as-yet-untitled book about political and social optimism from Rebecca Carter at Janklow & Nesbit. The title, which aims to reveal “the truth behind the disinformation we currently take for granted—at our peril”, will be issued in spring 2017.


BBC documentary Virago has been praised as “brave” and “inspiring” by trade figures after a BBC documentary traced the history of the women’s publisher from its early-1970s roots to the present day. The documentary, which


aired on 31st October on BBC Four, featured authors Margaret Atwood, Sarah Waters, Sarah Dunant, Maya Angelou and Naomi Wolf. “Virago: Changing the World One Page at a Time” featured interviews with the original Virago team—Carmen Callil, Ursula Owen, Harriet Spicer, Lennie Goodings (now Virago publisher, pictured above) and Alexandra Pringle (now editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury)—as well as current staffers. Doubleday publisher Marianne


Velmans tweeted that the editors were “heroes” in her eyes, and agent Karolina Sutton hailed them “trailblazers”.


‘Homeric’ Dylan’s Nobel award hope


Bob Dylan has broken his silence over winning the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, saying he “absolutely” wants to collect the prize in person at the Stockholm- held event in December “if at all possible”. Speaking to the Telegraph, the musician added: “Some [of my own] songs—’Blind Willie’, ‘The Ballad of Hollis Brown’, ‘Joey’, ‘A Hard Rain’, ‘Hurricane’, and some others—definitely are Homeric in value.”








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