The Folio Prize is to launch a two-day fiction festival in March just ahead of the announcement... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books by Sainsbury’s is asking customers to vote for their ‘E-book of the Year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stoner by late US author John Williams, first published 48 years ago, wins the Waterstones Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Forty-eight years after it was first published, Stoner (Vintage Classics) by the late US author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish author Donal Ryan wins the 2013 Guardian First Book Award for his debut novel The Spinning Heart. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Professor Stefan Buczacki has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Garden... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart (Doubleday Ireland) has tonight (28th November) been named... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
A self-published title has been included in the shortlist for the CMI Management Book of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Awards suggest that books are where grown-ups go when they want to use all of their minds and hearts, says Salon's Laura Miller. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
James McBride won the National Book Award for fiction for his novel set during the Civil War, while George Packer picked up the non-fiction award for his examination of contemporary America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
McBride's The Good Lord Bird was a surprise winner of the prestigious award which honours works by US authors published over the past year. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
As tonight's announcement approaches, buzz is building over such nominees as Lawrence Wright's 'Going Clear' and Thomas Pynchon's 'Bleeding Edge.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
James McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for "The Good Lord Bird." George Packer won the nonfiction award for "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America."James McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for “The Good Lord Bird,” a satirical account of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frances Lincoln has launched a new prize for British nature and nature travel writing, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Bantam Press) has won... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is nominated for the best popular fiction prize at the National Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Winner of the Nobel Literature prize and author of more than 55 works of fiction, opera, nonfiction, and poetry, including 'The Golden Notebook,' British author Doris Lessing died Sunday at her home in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94.Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Metropolitan Books publisher Sara Bershtel will receive the 2014 Friedrich Ulfers Prize for her contributions to German literature in the USA. The prize is part of NYC's Festival Neue Literatur. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novelist who spent nine years trying to get her first book published is rewarded for her persistence with a £10,000 literary prize for original fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]