The Octopus Publishing Group has changed its logo following its 50th anniversary and revealed 2021 as its biggest Total Consumer Market year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 23:18:04 UTC ]
Trapeze has signed Nihal Arthanayake’s "game-changing" Let’s Talk: How to Have Better Conversations following a four-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 22:13:43 UTC ]
5 things to know about Stephanie Land and "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-01-25 21:00:21 UTC ]
Virago has appointed Clare Gordon from Head of Zeus as senior editor to cover publisher Sarah Savitt’s maternity leave. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 19:04:23 UTC ]
Daily Mail remains a Boris Johnson backer but same cannot be said of its sister outletA full list of alleged partiesWhat were the rules in June 2020?Coronavirus – latest global updatesThe print edition of the Daily Mail has remained one of Boris Johnson’s strongest backers in the media, even as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-25 18:46:31 UTC ]
Winners of an array of children’s literature awards reflect a diversity of perspectives and topics. “The Last Cuentista,” a tale of a young girl who must preserve the memory of Earth’s history, won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2022-01-25 18:02:43 UTC ]
This week we’re celebrating the 160th birthday of Edith Wharton—novelist, short story writer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer prize. But as it turns out, the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction wasn’t initially meant to go to Wharton—the jury wanted to give the honor to Sinclair Lewis, but they... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-25 17:30:38 UTC ]
The Dutch Foundation for Literature has announced the New Dutch Writing campaign will return to the UK for the fourth year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 17:20:43 UTC ]
The first audio award in the Independent Publishers Awards program in the UK is backed by digital media distributor Zebralution. The post Germany’s Zebralution Backs a New IPG Audio Award in the UK appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-25 14:16:22 UTC ]
Picador has secured Basic Pistol: Living and Dying By the Gun in America, a “jaw-dropping” study by Harel Shapira. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 13:34:13 UTC ]
HarperCollins has released its first ethnicity pay gap report alongside its annual one for gender pay, announcing it will now use diverse, balanced shortlists for senior roles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 13:17:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2021 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust award includes poetry, nonfiction, and three novels. The post The UK’s Sunday Times Young Writer Award Names Its 2021 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-25 12:58:34 UTC ]
Comma Press is to publish The Cuckoo Cage, the latest anthology in its History-into-Fiction series, featuring stories by British authors including Courttia Newland, Luan Goldie and Irfan Master. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 11:00:43 UTC ]
The pandemic/apocalypse genre is having a moment, and it can actually be emotionally uplifting to dive in. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-01-25 10:45:04 UTC ]
Stephen King has written “a magnificent and terrifying tale” about a teenage boy with keys to a parallel world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 09:54:00 UTC ]
Pinch of Nom retains its UK Official Number One, while Colleen Hoover hits a personal best. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 09:30:20 UTC ]
Gina Miller and Theresa May are happy to be in Bloody Difficult Women, but the Mail man wanted his lawyers to vet the scriptThe Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday have been banging on a lot lately about freedom of expression. An editorial declared it to be a “dark day” when the newspaper group... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-25 08:00:39 UTC ]
Katrina Charman's The Whales on the Bus, illustrated by Nick Sharratt (Bloomsbury Children’s) has won BookTrust's Storytime Prize for the best new book for babies and young children. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-25 06:28:28 UTC ]
Independent press Scratch Books, "dedicated to the art of the short story", is to launch in London in March, kicking off with an event featuring authors including Irenosen Okojie and Sarah Hall. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-24 22:49:58 UTC ]
Violeta by Isabel Allende (Bloomsbury) was dubbed “a great sweeping story like a river in spate” by critics this week, picking up mentions in the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, Independent and the Telegraph, while Free Love by Tessa Hadley (Jonathan Cape) and Reality+ by David... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-24 19:58:05 UTC ]