David Young will succeed Sir Christopher Bland, long-serving chairman of Canongate Books, in January 2017, the Bookseller reported. Bland is retiring after 22 years as chair of the publisher. Young managed Little, Brown U.K. for 10 years before taking over what would become Hachette Book Group USA from 2007 to 2013, after which he became CEO of Orion and deputy CEO of Hachette U.K. Currently he is president of the Book Trade Charity.
