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Jan Needle was born in Portsmouth on the south coast of England and moved to the north west when he was 20 to join the Daily Herald. At 25 he left full-time journalism and took a degree in drama at Manchester University, where he started writing plays for stage and radio, then short stories and later novels. In later years he made a living with journalism, radio and television drama, stage plays, and novel-writing, at first for children and later for adults too.
Uncomfortable Statistics - Kathleen Jones takes a look at the current state of publishing Uncomfortable Statistics for traditional publishers - Good news for Indies - The Big 6 are not so big any more. According to the latest figures for 2013, Penguin Random House came top of the table with a 24% share of the market, but its sales were down £342m (15%). All the others - Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan MacMillan, Bloomsbury, and Simon & Schuster were also down.
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