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Welcome to our autumn newsletter After a successful summer of festivals, conferences and exciting projects, we move into a brilliant and blustery season of change, as busy as ever! We are delighted to have recently completed a major project for one of our key educational clients, Marshall Cavendish Education in Singapore; read the case study further below. In September we returned to the IPG Autumn Conference, where we caught up with clients and were inspired by the fantastic line‐up of speakers. Back in the office, we hosted our fourth Macmillan coffee morning.
Autumn quote 'Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns.' ‐ George Eliot
Our news
The Great CPM Bake Off
IPG Autumn Conference 2016
Thank you to all of our guests, staff and star bakers who made our fourth Macmillan Coffee Morning on 30 September a success!
The IPG Autumn Conference saw more than 200 delegates gather in London in late September, including CPM’s Jackie Dobbyne, Liz Nelson and Katie Silvester.
Through a mutual love of cake, their generous support and donations helped us raise more than £250 for Macmillan Cancer Support, and achieved our combined target of £1000 over the past four years. Read more
One of the highlights was the findings of the survey of Independent Guild of Publishers (IPG) members by Nielson Book, which reported that more than 90 per cent of independent book publishers are still selling books through bricks‐ and‐mortar shops. Read more
Case study Marshall Cavendish Education – Take Off with English series We began this project with Marshall Cavendish in September 2014. It commissioned us to produce a new edition of its very successful long‐established series, Young Learners Go! Tailored to the Middle and Far East markets, Take Off with English follows the Cambridge ESOL Young Learners syllabus, which is taught in 130+ countries. Read case study
Main feature Banned books This autumn, the British Library, the Free Word Centre and Islington Libraries celebrated Banned Books Week in the UK for the first time. Banned Books Week is an annual celebration of the ‘freedom to read’ by the American Library Association (ALA). The celebration seems to have found its UK cultural home in Islington, London. Read full article
Writing competitions There’s still a chance to enter some great writing competitions; here’s a list of the best ones coming up. London Short Story Prize Inspired By Writing Short Story Competition Bath Children’s Novel Award National Memory Day Creative Writing Competition
Industry news & events 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist announced The six novels shortlisted to win The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the leading literary award in the English speaking world, were announced on 13 September. The finalists are The Sellout by Paul Beatty, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy, His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet, Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, All That Man Is by David Szalay and Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Dr Amanda Foreman, chair of the 2016 judges, says: ‘This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at times, passionate debate, challenging our expectations of what a novel is and can be.’ The winner will be announced on 25 October.
Vahni Capildeo wins Forward Prize for poetry Congratulations to the winners of the 25th Forward Prizes for Poetry – the most prestigious awards for poetry published in Britain and Ireland. This year’s £15,000 prize for Best Collection was awarded to Vahni Capildeo for her work Measures of Expatriation. The other winners were: for Best First Collection, Tiphanie Yanique’s Wife, and for Best Single Poem, Sasha Dugdale’s Joy. To mark the prizes’ anniversary year, the Forward Arts Society has released a poetry collection called 100 Prized Poems: 25 years of the Forward Books. Grab your copy in time to celebrate National Poetry Day on 6 October.
Congratulations also to poet Caleb Femi for being named first young people's laureate for London. What an amazing achievement!
Forthcoming events November Petworth Literary Festival Richmond Upon Thames Literature Festival
Bridport Literary Festival Literary Leicester Cambridge Winter Literary Festival Hay Festival: Winter Weekend
December Bloomsbury Book Fair
January Academic Book Week
We love books! As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, embrace the Danish concept of hygge by grabbing a mug of something warm (pumpkin spice optional) and losing yourself in a good book. Our editorial team has reviewed two bold novels to inspire you.
Career of Evil, by Robert Galbraith
Leaving the Atocha Station, by Ben Lerner
Career of Evil is the third novel by Robert Galbraith, better known as JK Rowling, all of which centre on larger‐than‐life private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott.
Leaving the Atocha Station is an engaging exploration of the inner territory of a new kind of American artist.
Read full review by Katie Silvester
Read full review by Tom Lee
Robert Galbraith the author
Ben Lerner the author
Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards and sold more than 400 million copies.
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Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist and critic. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the National Book Award, a Howard Foundation Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and he is currently a MacArthur Fellow.
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And finally... What a sensational summer of sport!
Huge congratulations to Team GB who achieved amazing results at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Earning 67 medals from the Olympic Games, and a whopping 147 medals from the Paralympic Games, Team GB had their most successful overseas Games, as well as exceeding their impressive medal haul in London 2012. Well done, everyone. Bring on Tokyo 2020!
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