Two Pulitzer Prize-winners and a Man Booker-shortlisted author are among the 16 people longlisted... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookslut is launching the Daphnes, a new award to celebrate the best books of years past and rightfully honor overlooked contenders for prizes, starting with 1963. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut novelist Nathan Filer wins the Costa Book of the Year with The Shock of the Fall, his debut novel about loss, guilt and mental illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
First-time novelist Nathan Filer has won the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year award for his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Korean literary agent Joseph Leo of KL Management says, 'Before asking why Korean authors fail to win the [Nobel], I want to ask them how many books you read a year.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Geoff Dyer will be one of the judges of the Goldsmiths Prize 2014, the second year of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2014 has been given to Cyrus Mistry for his novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The works of two British authors, Roger Knight and Richard Overy, have been recognised on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sinéad Morrissey has won the TS Eliot Prize for her collection, Parallax (Carcanet),... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Five top UK authors, including Kate Atkinson and Lucy Hughes-Hallet, are in competition for the Costa Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Kate Atkinson and poet Michael Symmons Roberts become double winners at the Costa Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane beats fellow National Book Award winners in a public vote to find 2013's book of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Headline) has been voted Specsavers Book of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller's consumer sister site We Love This Book is inviting book-lovers to test their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Dennis Abrams South African writer Anita Pouroulis, a former primary school teacher from Johannesburg, won the Best World Children’s Book Award at the China […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The autobiography from actor David Jason, schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai's story of being shot by the Taliban and David Walliams' latest children's book are winners at the Specsavers National Book Awards Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the week after Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature, sales of her books jumped 6,650% in Canada, and saw significant bumps around the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from Simon and Schuster and Egmont/Jelly Pie have won the 2013 Roald Dahl Funny Prizes,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Several top-selling titles were among the winners of this year's Crossword Book Awards, given by the Indian bookseller at the Times of India's Literary Carnival. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Literary Review has awarded its 21st annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award to Manil Suri for a scene in The City of Devi featuring a, err, stellar climax. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]