Bernardine Evaristo is collaborating with the Royal Society of Literature to create a mentoring award scheme for emerging authors of colour as part of a £300,000 Sky Arts project. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 18:33:57 UTC ]
The children’s book has influence out of proportion with its 24 pages and its cardboard cover devoid of medallions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling is. John le Carré isn’t. Albert Camus and F. Scott Fitzgerald are. George Orwell might or might not be. I’m talking about registered trade marks. Authors make copyright works, and their agents’ job is to maximise revenues from those intangibles. End of story, right? Kind of. A... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 12:24:33 UTC ]
The Stanfords Travel Writers Festival is going digital this year with a line-up including Raynor Winn, William Dalrymple, James Naughtie and Simon Reeve. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-25 04:31:56 UTC ]
The Oscar-nominated 1976 film, starring Woody Allen, was based on his eight years on the blacklist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-23 09:37:57 UTC ]
Some people are “constantly ringing the bell on how dangerous it is to be fat, but that’s not making fat people thin,” Gordon says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-22 16:48:02 UTC ]
Children's indie Nosy Crow is mounting an open call for submissions from writers of colour to broaden its picture books list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-21 11:03:39 UTC ]
Amanda Gorman, who wrote and recited the official Biden Inaugural Poem, and Brayden Harrington, the teen who spoke at the Democratic Convention of bonding with Biden over stuttering, both landed book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has revealed the identity of C J Carey, author of the dystopian thriller Widowland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-19 09:58:11 UTC ]
The National Literacy Trust's Connecting Stories campaign, championing literacy in diverse communities in need of support, has attracted the support of 18 publishers and 32 authors, including children's writers Sathnam Sanghera, Konnie Huq and Steve Antony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 23:09:03 UTC ]
Tributes have been paid to award-winning novelist, poet and pathologist David Wheldon following his unexpected death at the age of 70. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 07:06:47 UTC ]
Australian novelist Janet Woods has died at the age of 81, the Kate Nash Literary Agency has confirmed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-17 12:41:28 UTC ]
She also wrote a memoir about her parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-15 14:46:04 UTC ]
Nadia Owusu recounts her sense of dislocation and her search for a place to call home. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-15 13:00:00 UTC ]
Sevastian Volkov has won this year’s Impress Prize for New Writers, for his YA novel Orris and the Shadow Maiden. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 11:33:47 UTC ]
BookLife Elite will offer public libraries access to a curated collection of unlimited, simultaneous-use indie e-books, meaning library readers can access the books instantly—no holds lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Since the Netflix adaptation of the revisionist Regency drama "Bridgerton" premiered on Christmas, Julia Quinn's original book series is in very high demand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-12 18:36:35 UTC ]
The London Library's Emerging Writers Programme will run for a third year in 2021, including a new Virago Participation Bursary to support Black women and Black non-binary people overcoming financial barriers to accessing it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 12:47:07 UTC ]
Bestselling novelist Lisa See brings'The Island of Sea Women' to the L.A. Times Book Club Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-08 15:00:51 UTC ]
Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. The product of a self-imposed desert exile with his exhaustive collection of personal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-08 09:46:50 UTC ]