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Quercus announces Trading Update

The Directors of Quercus have released a trading update, reporting on the first four months of 2010. Further details can be found here.

Quercus announces End of Year Results

Quercus Publishing Plc, the PLUS-quoted company today announces its final results for the year ending 31st December 2009.

For further details please consult the release to the PLUS market, which can be found here.

QQQQuercus Publishing Plc, the PLUS-quoted publishing company (symbol: QUPP on PLUS), today announces
its final results for the year ended 31 December 2009.

Award-Winners

The Broken Shore
by Peter Temple

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Marketing Campaign of the Year Award

Quercus and MacLehose Press were last night presented with a Bookseller Industry Award for Marketing Campaign of the Year (sponsored by Nielsen), for their work on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.

Marketing Manager Iain Millar picked up the statuette, known as a ‘Nibbie’, from author Maggie O’Farrell and television personality Clive Anderson. The event, staged this year at the Royal Courts of Justice, was attended by 600 publishing and bookselling professionals.

Bookseller editor-in-chief and chairman of judges Neill Denny said: “This may be a tough period for the trade but all the winners of these awards represent terrific success stories that we can all learn from—the book trade is full of inspiring and creative businesses.

“We have extended the principle of open and transparent judging that we pioneered in our retail awards across the full width of the trade, and I can be very confident that these winners, from the biggest to the smallest, are ‘best of breed’.”

Brodeck’s Report wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

We are delighted to announce that Philippe Claudel has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize with his novelBrodeck’s Report (MacLehose Press). Claudel will share the £10,000 prize money with US translator John Cullen.

The annual book award is given to a living author whose work has been translated into English and published in the UK. It is the second year running that a MacLehose Press title has been awarded the prize, following last year’s winnerThe Armies by Evelio Rosero.

Judge Boyd Tonkin called Claudel’s work ” a beautiful and disturbing novel that finds a bewitchingly original way to talk about the tragedies of modern history.”

He continued “this book is work of art that also addresses troubling questions of human behaviour and historical conflict with courage, compassion and imagination … it makes a thoroughly worthy addition to the illustrious list of novels to have won this unique prize”.

The Independent has excellent coverage of the evening, and the full report can be found here.