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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
"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 ]
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 ]
Combative "Newsnight" presenter Jeremy Paxman will chair the judging panel for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]