Historian Patrick French has been appointed as Doris Lessing’s new biographer. Lessing died in November 2013 at the age of 94. French is the author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of V. S. Naipaul (Picador), which won the Hawthornden Prize and The National Book Critics... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book trade has abandoned the Liberal Democrats in favour of Labour and the Green Party in the five years since the last election, according to a poll of voting intentions conducted by The Bookseller. Support for libraries and making Amazon pay a fair share of tax are the issues the trade is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Serpent's Tail has signed two books from Orange Prize-winner Valerie Martin, a novel and a collection of short stories. Commissioning editor Rebecca Gray signed UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Peter Straus at RCW, on behalf of Molly Friedrich at the Friedrich Agency. Short... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Piatkus has acquired Blind by Cath Weeks. Editorial director Emma Beswetherick bought world rights to Blind and one other novel direct from the author. Blind is about a mother who gives birth to a blind baby boy and is “a story about how hard we battle for our children and delves into the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Want to know what to look out for during today's Free Comic Book Day? We've got you covered. The post What You Should Pick Up on Free Comic Book Day appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has signed two books by Kate Lord Brown, who has previously been published by Atlantic’s Corvus imprint. Kate Mills, Orion publishing director, acquired the novels from Sheila Crowley at Curtis Brown, for a “good five-figure sum”. The first novel, The Christmas We Met, will be published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird has acquired world rights in a multi-book deal with foster carer Angela Hart. Carole Tonkinson acquired rights direct from Hart, who is using a pseudonym. The first book will be Terrified: The heartbreaking true story of a girl nobody loved and the woman who saved... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary festivals are growing in importance for retailer Blackwell’s, with the company actively seeking to establish partnerships with the sector. Zool Verjee, Blackwell’s sales development manager, told The Bookseller the chain had enjoyed sales growth of 15% year on year after partnering... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The social network’s results and revenues are failing to impress investors – especially when compared with Facebook’s and Google’sGood news travels fast, but bad news even faster – especially if it’s the release of lacklustre results from Twitter. That’s what happened on Tuesday last week when,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The French National Book Centre (Centre National du Livre, CNL) will cut subsidies for the 90-plus book fairs and literary festivals it supports next year if organisers do not agree to pay authors for giving talks and participating in debates. Meetings are being held with organisers, none of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has acquired on proposal a book about American blues music by Natasha Peskin. Described as "part travel, part memoir and part oral history", A Soft Place to Lay: Stories of the Blues is inspired by Peskin's solo drive across the USA exploring the history of the music. Louise... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
When ReedPop announced ambitious plans for its inaugural BookCon show last year, publishers were skeptical, and they had every right to be. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
China is the focus country of this year's Global Market Forum, and the delegation is the largest that BEA has ever seen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2015 edition of BookExpo America, once again set for New York City’s Javits Center, will deliver many perennially popular events, such as the various buzz panels, the hundreds of autographing sessions, and the marquee-author breakfasts, along with new elements and changes designed to better... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although Ted Heinecken describes himself as having been an eminence grise at Fujii Associates until his February retirement, he’s considered by many to be the elder statesman of the entire Midwestern book world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Leaders, take note (and MFA grads, take heart): acclaimed novelist Mohsin Hamid on the most important tool you're not using enough.True story: In 2007, the Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid catapulted into the literary spotlight with his second book, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, an examination of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In March 2015, British singer Sam Smith took to Instagram to tell his 3.6 million followers that one woman, Amelia Freer, had changed his life with her book, "Eat. Nourish. Glow.," which he credited with his recent weight loss. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our not-to-be-missed annual round-up of the show's big adult galley giveaways, listed by publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The International New York Times (NYTimes.com) and The New York Times’ Chinese website (cn.NYTimes.com) today published the first edition of the International New York Times Chinese Monthly, a print publication that presents news, opinion a ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Critiques of leading magazine covers. The post Face Up: Audubon appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]