Baroness Lola Young OBE will chair the judges for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
In three of Cambridge University Press' journals, Overleaf arrangement offers authoring tools. And eight awards are part of the FutureBook Conference. The post International Notes: Cambridge University Press and Overleaf; FutureBook Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
India's Raymond Crossword Book Awards recognize 'exclusively Indian' writers across 10 categories—winners are chosen by a jury and by popular vote. The post Tripathi, Ghosh Top India’s Raymond Crossword Book Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sara Lloyd, digital and communications director at Pan Macmillan, has won FutureBook’s Digital Leader of the award, announced at this year’s FutureBook Conference Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Crook's Corner restaurant in Chapel Hill has sponsored a literary award since 2013, and recently increased the prize to $5,000 for the best debut novel about the South. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut thriller The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena (Transworld) has been named as W H Smith's Book of the Year for 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Perry's novel The Essex Serpent is named Waterstones Book of the Year ahead of a Beatrix Potter manuscript and a Harry Potter playscript. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers including AS Byatt and Philip Hensher say Commonwealth and British writers face greater struggle to find readers, now ‘dice are loaded’ AS Byatt, Philip Hensher and Susan Hill have joined authors backing Julian Barnes’s call for the Man Booker prize to exclude US writers once again, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Retailer Foyles has chosen Paul Beaty’s Man Booker Prize-winning The Sellout as its book of the year, so will promote the title heavily online and in-store in the run up to Christmas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two-thirds of the shortlisted candidates in the UK's Costa Book Awards are women. And three in one category are former winners. The post Women Lead The Five Costa Book Award Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer development organisation Spread the Word is launching a new nationwide Life Writing Prize, thanks to a donation from writer Joanna Munro and partnership support from Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre, the Royal Society of Literature and Arvon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Green Carnation Prize, an award recognising lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) writers, is partnering with Foyles for a third year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Surfing memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by New Yorker journalist William Finnegan (Corsair) has scooped the 28th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award's Graham Sharpe on the process of choosing a winner and the history of the prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sunny Singh, author and chair of judges for the Jhalak Prize, has called the efforts of British publishers "pathetic" due to the "shockingly low" submissions to the prize created to celebrate British BAME writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
How Machines Work by David Macaulay (Dorling Kindersley) was today announced as the winner of the £10,000 Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2016, which champions the best science books for under-14s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bruce Springsteen's memoir Born to Run (Simon & Schuster) has been longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize alongside memoirs from musicians Johnny Marr and Robbie Robertson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Sunny Singh calls British publishing ‘pathetic’ as inaugural £1,000 Jhalak prize receives only 51 entriesThe chair of the judges for the inaugural Jhalak prize, the author Sunny Singh, has branded British publishers “pathetic” after the award created to recognise black, Asian and minority... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the 67th National Book Awards were about to get underway in New York last night (16th November), 76-year-old US Congressman John Lewis, an American hero and living legend of the Civil Rights Movement, told The Bookseller: "We have to continue to stand up, speak up, and continue to fight. We... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Mike McCormack, Paul O’ Connell and Tana French are some of winners of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2016 held in Dublin’s Double Tree Hilton yesterday evening (16th November). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]