Author Giancarlo Gemin has won a Welsh book award for his debut children’s novel Cowgirl (Nosy Crow). The English language Tir na n-Og award, organised by the Welsh Books Council, and sponsored by Cilip Wales, is for the best English-language title with an authentic Welsh background. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two Allen Lane books have won this year’s annual Wolfson History Prize. National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen and Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 by Alexander Watson were announced as the winners of the prize at a reception at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A writer who penned her first novel in her 40s is among three female authors shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for new fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books published by Templar, Bloomsbury Children’s, Andersen Press and Flying Eye Books are the winners of the 2015 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards, organised by the English Association. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emma Cox, a headteacher from Devon, has won this year’s New Children’s Author Prize, organised by the National Literacy Trust and Bloomsbury. Malkin Moonlight, chosen from a shortlist of six books, is about a cat who is looking for his friend Roux. He comes across a group of cats at a recycling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake, published by crowd-funding platform Unbound, has been named the inaugural Book of the Year at the Bookseller Industry Awards 2015. The book is written in re-imagined old English and set in 1066, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Folio Prize,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Wake wins honour from the Bookseller magazine, recognising both the book and its innovative publisher UnboundPaul Kingsnorth’s crowdfunded novel The Wake, which the author wrote in an invented form of Old English and originally envisaged self-publishing, has won the inaugural book of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation has awarded $10,000 to Reach Incorporated for its annual Innovations in Reading Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Poetry Foundation has awarded Alice Notley the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which recognizes the outstanding lifetime achievement of a living U.S. poet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Zondervan, part of the HarperCollins Christian Publishing family, swept five of the eight highest honors Tuesday night. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Serpent's Tail has signed two books from Orange Prize-winner Valerie Martin, a novel and a collection of short stories. Commissioning editor Rebecca Gray signed UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Peter Straus at RCW, on behalf of Molly Friedrich at the Friedrich Agency. Short... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Super Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys is nominated for the Wales Book of the Year award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle's memoir The Second Half leads the nominations for the Cross British Sports Book Awards shortlists, as it competes for three separate prizes. The book, published by Orion, is in the running for autobiography of the year, football book of the year and the outstanding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memoir written by the wife of an art critic who died of a brain tumour wins a £30,000 prize for new books about medicine, health or illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marion Coutts has won the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 with The Iceberg (Atlantic Books). Bill Bryson, chair of the prize judges, said the book was “painful to read, but beautifully expressed”. Coutts’ husband, art critic Tom Lubbock, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2008, and died in 2011.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Daily Telegraph's head of books Gaby Wood is chosen as the new head of the Man Booker Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lisa Bickmore has won the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for her poem on separation, love and grief, “Eidolon”. Her win of the €10,000 (£7,152) award for a single unpublished poem was announced at a special event at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. The prize is sponsored by Darina... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Farmer and writer John Lewis-Stempel has won the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 for Meadowland: the Private Life of an English Field (Black Swan). Worth £5,000, the annual book prize is awarded by publisher Frances Lincoln, in association with the National Trust, to highlight the best books in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michel Laub, one of Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists, and Thomas Harding, a shortlisted author for the 2013 Costa Book Award, are the first joint winners of the 2015 JQ Wingate Prize. The winners were announced yesterday evening (20th April) at the Jewish Community Centre London JW3... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anthony Doerr (fiction), David I. Kertzer (biography) and Gregory Pardlo (poetry) are among the winners of the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes for Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]