"Fran," Jim Woodring’s “hypnotic and subliminal” wordless graphic novel, has been awarded the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year for 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2014 Caine Prize for African writing includes two writers from Kenya, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comics artists Gene Luen Yang and Ulli Lust have been awarded L.A. Times Book Prizes for Young Adult Literature and Graphic Novels respectively for 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
London based publishing start-up Jellybooks has won £25,000 from the Government-backed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Katherine Rundell’s novel Rooftoppers (Faber and Faber) has been crowned the overall winner... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation, which oversees the National Book Awards, has announced the judges for the 2014 awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Combative "Newsnight" presenter Jeremy Paxman will chair the judging panel for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A picture book by comedy star David Walliams, his first in the format, is one of 24 titles for children that are in contention for this year's Booktrust Best Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charles Moore's prize-winning biography of Margaret Thatcher has been longlisted for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Diagram prize, honouring the year's strangest title, awarded to self-help guide to toilet etiquetteIn pictures: Thirty odd years of the Diagram prizePowered by the British public's unstoppable enthusiasm for toilet humour, the enticingly-titled How to Poo on a Date has carried off this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A self-help guide to toilet etiquette, How to Poo on a Date, wins the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
How to Poo on a Date has won the 36th annual Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Historian and professor Allen C. Guelzo's winning book was "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber will publish the mass market paperback and ebook versions of Eimear McBride's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
George Saunders has been announced as the winner of The Folio Prize 2014 for Tenth of December (Bloomsbury), sponsored by The Folio Society. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thomas King's "subversive, hilarious, enraging" re-examination of Canada's history with aboriginal people wins $25,000 non-fiction prize Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
US writer George Saunders has won the inaugural Folio Prize for his short story collection Tenth... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt and Booker winner Eleanor Catton are among the novelists longlisted for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker shortlisted Jim Crace is one of eight recipients of this year’s $150,000 Windham... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The books on the shortlist for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2014 cover a wide range of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]