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 ]
Weird World of Wonders: World War II wins Tony Robinson a Blue Peter Book Award, as World Book Day organisers reveal the top 50 life-changing teen reads. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author's "Tenth of December" was fittingly the tenth winner of the short fiction award, which came with a $20,000 prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books published by Scholastic, Bloomsbury and Kelpies have won prizes at the 2013 Scottish... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and TV presenter Tony Robinson has won his second Blue Peter book award, for Weird World... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Oscars 2014 ceremony saw the movie '12 Years a Slave,' based on the memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, score big by winning the Best Picture prize. The Oscars 2014 awards were held on March 2. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Celebrating great writing by women and taking it to a wider audience than ever before are the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, is one of six writers included on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nominees for the 34th annual L.A. Times Book Prizes have been announced and include five finalists for the graphic novel prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Working class cats, South African trouts and pies as biography are all some of the topics up for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty titles in 10 categories are in contention for the awards, which will be revealed in April. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anthony Marra and David Finkel were the winners of the inaugural prize, established in Cohen's memory. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Michael Blakemore, Michael Simkins and Philip Zeigler are all contenders for the 2014... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nominations for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize include journalist Dawn O'Porter's teen novel Paper Aeroplanes and books by an actress, a performance poet and a screenwriter. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has achieved three shortlistings for this year’s 10th Waterstones Children’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
North Americans dominate the eight books vying for this year’s inaugural £40,000 Folio book prize from the UK, which is open to all English-language titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two Iraqi novelists, two Moroccans, one Syrian author and one Egyptian author have been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
British novelist Jane Gardam and Irish writer Eimear McBride are on the shortlist for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the nominees for the second annual Cartoonist Studio Prize. The winner in each of our two categories will be announced March 7; each winner will receive $1,000 and, of course, eternal glory. The shortlists were... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
At this year's annual meeting, the American Library Association (ALA) will confer the first annual Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]