Irish author Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Galley Beggar/Faber &... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Book review magazine Kirkus Reviews has announced three $50,000 book prizes to be awarded for fiction, nonfiction and young adult literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Literacy Trust (NLT) and Bloomsbury Children’s Books are launching a prize to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press has signed two prize-winning novels by German writers. Publisher Adam Freudenheim... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim has won the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his second... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former tennis player Jimmy Connors, publicists Karen Geary and Rebecca Mundy, and retailer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former home secretary Alan Johnson has won the Orwell Prize for Books with childhood memoir, This... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Edward St Aubyn has won the fifteenth Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for his satire on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton editor Anne Perry has been awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2014. Perry... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nosy Crow’s Open Very Carefully, winner of the Waterstones best picture book prize this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Parthian Books, Faber and Jonathan Cape all have English-language titles in the shortlist for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book exploring England’s ancient track roads and green grass roads has won the inaugural... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnard College named Carmen Ren as the first ever recipient of its Axinn Foundation/Anna Quindlen Award for Creative Writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nathaniel Mackey has been awarded the 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors the lifetime achievement of a living U.S. poet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The James Beard Foundation announced the 2014 winners of its Book, Broadcast, and Journalism awards at a dinner on Friday that saw British chef/restaurateur Heston Blumenthal win Cookbook of the Year for 'Historic Heston' and Mexican cooking authority Diana Kennedy inducted into the Cookbook... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 20 winning stories will be collected into a single volume, published as an Anchor Books trade paperback original on September 9. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale (Allen Lane) has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
László Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2014 Best Translated Book Award for fiction for "Seiobo There Below." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love (Chatto & Windus) has won... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Beckham, Andy Murray and Ronnie O’Sullivan are among the sports stars competing for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]