The author and playwright Frank White, whose novel There Was a Time was published by Hodder in 2017, has died at the age of 92. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-18 09:56:16 UTC ]
His “Paco’s Story” was the surprise winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1987, beating books by Toni Morrison and Philip Roth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-17 23:53:36 UTC ]
Head of Zeus imprint Aria has snapped up two more novels by romance writer Mandy Baggot. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-16 02:43:56 UTC ]
A campaign is under way to save historic literary site the Red House, in West Yorkshire, which has links to Charlotte Brontë. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-15 16:14:43 UTC ]
More than 400 pupils at Stormzy's former school were treated to an event with the grime rapper Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-11 10:23:36 UTC ]
Though Grace Paley never stopped writing, and the publication of her first book demonstrated that she was in fact “a writer,” her energy turned increasingly to political activity after 1960. Her desire to remain outside the literary world was abetted by her interest in the growing peace... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-11 09:48:14 UTC ]
“My Brilliant Friend” and Elena Ferrante’s other best-selling books are inspiring female novelists and shaking up the country’s male-dominated literary establishment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-09 10:00:14 UTC ]
Doubleday has signed a "major" pre-emptive deal for world rights in two books from Anna Bailey with the first offers already in from France and Italy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 15:35:31 UTC ]
For Antrobus' 'commitment not just to recognizing difference but to the difficult act of forgiveness,' the Young Writer Award goes to poetry this year. The post In London, Raymond Antrobus Named 2019 Young Writer Award Winner appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-12-06 13:02:43 UTC ]
On November 12, at the Pen Parentis Literary Salon in Lower Manhattan, I hear author Jimin Han say something I’ve never heard a writer admit before. “I didn’t really commit to being a writer until I had children,” Han says to a room of 20 or so writers, all of whom are parents. There is […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-06 09:47:14 UTC ]
The author of the book that shows women how to follow their own paths is back with advice for current times. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
Jane Bettany has won HQ and Gransnet's writing prize for unpublished women writers aged over 40. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 01:51:32 UTC ]
Raymond AntrobusWho/ What inspired you to start writing? I never started writing poetry with the intention of writing books until publishers approached me. I was happy to write poems and travel and read the poems for audiences. I live poem by poem. The idea of a book of poems doesn’t really... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-12-05 12:09:15 UTC ]
Author Alistair Humphreys and illustrator Kevin Ward have won the 2019 Educational Writers’ Award for Great Adventurers (Big Picture Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-05 10:42:56 UTC ]
Multi-award winning poet Raymond Antrobus has been named winner of the 2019 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award for his debut The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-05 08:18:28 UTC ]
Registration opens for London Book Fair's Writers' Summit programming for authors on March 10, opening day of the 2020 fair. Author HQ program is included. The post Industry Notes: London Announces Writers’ Summit; Reed Completes India Event Buys appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-12-02 06:30:47 UTC ]
David Higham Associates has announced the 10 authors who will attend its open day for writers from under-represented backgrounds in January. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 17:10:16 UTC ]
Serpent’s Tail has acquired an "irresistibly surreal" debut short story collection by Alice Ash. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 21:39:09 UTC ]
Author Nikesh Shukla will join broadcaster Kirsty Wark to headline the inaugural Paisley Book Festival in February 2020, with contributions also coming from Emma Jane Unsworth and the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 15:25:12 UTC ]
In “The Story of a Goat,” animals articulate their own curious perspectives on their lives — and ours. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-11-26 12:00:00 UTC ]