The most reviewed non-fiction book of the week was The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross (Faber) featuring in the Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Daily Mail. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-09 19:34:48 UTC ]
Scholastic’s Kate Newport is joining Hachette Children’s Group in the newly created role of publisher for non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-09 18:55:54 UTC ]
Cassie Rocks, Farzana Khan, Hannah Beeson, Omara Elling-Hwang (pictured) and Yanmin Zhuchen will take over the running of The FLIP (Female Leadership in Publishing) platform later this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-09 18:47:31 UTC ]
The Roald Dahl Story Company, which manages the rights to the authors characters and stories, made £27.1m in the year to December 2020, up £1.3m from £25.8m in 2019, before its 2021 acquisition by Netflix earned the estate £370m. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-09 17:39:30 UTC ]
Oneworld editor and former Guardian journalist Richard Lea is heading a new web-based short fiction journal, Fictionable, which is aiming to raise £15,000 in the next month on Kickstarter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-09 17:09:42 UTC ]
Filippo Bernardini is accused of stealing manuscripts. For money or just a good read?The theft of books occupies a complex place in our moral judgment, depending on motive. In Markus Zusak’s 2005 novel The Book Thief, the actions of the title character are heroic – she steals books to save them... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-09 09:30:16 UTC ]
Publishing bosses and influencers from across the trade share their predictions and expectations for the year ahead, with environmental progress and diversity strongly prioritised across the board. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 14:43:20 UTC ]
Books and culture PR agency ed public relations has launched a series of free online "salons" to demystify the role publicists play within the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 13:28:05 UTC ]
Lizzie Damilola Blackburn’s irresistibly titled novel will be Viking‘s lead commercial fiction début for 2022 and Netflix has already snapped up TV rights. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 12:55:53 UTC ]
The Christmas decorations are down, the tin of Quality Street is empty and now I’m planning my author goals for the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 10:21:55 UTC ]
Filippo Bernardini, the London publishing staffer arrested and charged by the FBI with allegedly stealing hundreds of book manuscripts over several years, has been released on bail. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 08:28:56 UTC ]
There is an interesting moment during the staging of Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 06:09:01 UTC ]
Orion has scooped two new John Rebus thrillers by Ian Rankin in a seven-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 04:57:21 UTC ]
Award-winning author Alex Marwood has written a Jeffrey Epstein-inspired psychological thriller for Sphere, The Island of Lost Girls, exploring the “obscene levels of wealth and the sex trafficking of vulnerable teenage girls”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-07 23:48:26 UTC ]
Commercial director Jenny Fry and publishing director Francis Bickmore have moved into newly created positions at Canongate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-07 23:22:17 UTC ]
The number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland has grown for the fifth consecutive year despite challenges brought by the pandemic, the Booksellers Association says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-07 22:34:12 UTC ]
Nichole Barnes Marshall joined Pinterest as global head of inclusion and diversity, succeeding Tyi McCray, who left the company last June after less than one year in the role. Marshall had been chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Bath & Body Works, integrating DEI programs and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2022-01-07 22:00:00 UTC ]
Bernstein’s memoir “Chasing History” is a personal and affectionate look at the past, when journalism was thriving. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-07 20:51:59 UTC ]
The sales of print books in the US soared across 2021, boosted by fiction with YA and graphic novels riding high in particular. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-07 18:22:38 UTC ]
Two books take historical and personal looks at the theft of artworks during World War II. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-07 15:21:36 UTC ]