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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
"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 ]