Amid global travel restrictions and under a new parent company, Lonely Planet spent 2021 retooling. Now it's ready to hit the road. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Poet and playwright Hannah Jane Walker’s debut on the value of sensitivity has been signed by Aster following her Radio 4 documentary and stage show on the subject. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 04:25:53 UTC ]
While we've had weeks of early Black Friday deals already, Thanksgiving has brought additional sales, some of which we expect to continue through Black Friday proper. This has been a trend for the past few years — if you happen to be online and searching for Black Friday deals a few hours before... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-11-25 21:15:26 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood is being celebrated for her contributions to Canadian literature with a special stamp, unveiled on Thursday. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2021-11-25 20:33:03 UTC ]
Yomi Sode, Raymond Antrobus and Victoria Adukwei Bulley are among 17 contemporary Black British poets recording their poems for a new collection by the Poetry Archive and Obsidian Foundation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 19:40:50 UTC ]
It's now that much easier to use Arturia's softsynths on your brand new MacBook. Arturia has released a free V Collection 8.2 update that adds native support to the (currently discounted) suite for Macs with M1 processors. That should improve performance, as you might guess, but it could also... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-11-25 15:00:35 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK has released a selection of titles from Graham Swift's backlist in audio for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 14:47:37 UTC ]
Natasha Carthew, the artistic director of The Festival for Working Class Writers, is planning a UK tour in 2022 to address diversity and inclusion issues in the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 12:09:19 UTC ]
Katie Daynes' Why Do Things Die? (Usborne), illustrated by Christine Pym, has been announced as the overall winner of the School Library Association (SLA) Information Book Award for its “gentle, non-judgemental” tone on "a rare topic" for young readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 10:32:58 UTC ]
Amazon isn't quite done with its Black Friday e-reader deals. After it put several other Kindles on sale, the company has dropped the price of the latest Kindle Paperwhite from $140 to $105.Buy Kindle Paperwhite at Amazon - $105The fifth-gen Paperwhite, the first refresh in three years, was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2021-11-25 08:15:47 UTC ]
Yale University Press is gearing up to publish A Little History of Art by Charlotte Mullins, an "exciting" addition to the press' Little Histories series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 07:18:20 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has signed up the award-winning The Queen’s Thief series from author Megan Whalen Turner and will publish new paperback editions of the series in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 07:14:44 UTC ]
Chelsea Green Publishing has landed a book from Adam Alexander, "the Indiana Jones of vegetables". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 05:56:00 UTC ]
Independent poetry-focused press flipped eye publishing is releasing a new poetry anthology featuring contributions from UK-based Black poets including Inua Ellams, Yomi Sode, Dzifa Benson and Nick Makoha. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 04:56:57 UTC ]
Birlinn imprint Polygon has signed a deal with crime writer Douglas Skelton for three more books in his “enthralling” Rebecca Connolly series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 04:28:45 UTC ]
The Welbeck Publishing Group is "on course to significantly surpass" its 2021 revenue in 2022 following a dip in turnover partly owing to the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 04:17:29 UTC ]
Graeme Macrae Burnet, Raymond Antrobus and Louise Welsh are among authors headlining next year's Paisley Book Festival, which will celebrate literature inspired by or written in Scotland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 02:14:48 UTC ]
A project to develop a guide to make literature events accessible for disabled people has reached its research and development phase target budget following support from the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 01:08:21 UTC ]
Hachette is undergoing a "major overhaul" of its recruitment and outreach practices to improve diversity in the workplace, after publishing the results for its first staff and author censuses. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 00:35:55 UTC ]
Hodder is to release The Heartstopper Yearbook, "a joyful trip" into the world of the graphic novel series by author and illustrator Alice Oseman. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 00:28:13 UTC ]