Usborne has won the Royal Society Young People’s Book Award with an interactive flap book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
American author Claire Vaye Watkins has won the Dylan Thomas Prize with Battleborn, a collection... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The prize fund for the Wellcome Book Prize has been increased to £30,000. This marks a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for The Pike, her biography of philandering Italian poet and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of Italian artist Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike (4th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A graphic novel about a man's beard is up against works by Booker winner Julian Barnes and best-selling author Kate Atkinson for the Waterstones Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the UK's leading award for non-fiction books, the Samuel Johnson Prize, will be announced next week, here Nick Higham speaks to nominated author Dave Goulson Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Edinburgh author Angela Jackson is named the winner of the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the £15,000 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry has been revealed, with publishers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angela Jackson has won the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, sponsored... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nosy Crow and Random House Children’s Publishers have three titles apiece on the Roald Dahl... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcasters Sue MacGregor and Trevor Phillips and Robert McCrum, associate editor of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Superworm, Julia Donaldson's tale of a resourceful worm and The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey's novel about an alien invasion, are among the 10 books shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten books have been shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award, the only national... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Spanish author Clara Sánchez has won the 2013 Planeta Prize for her novel El cielo ha vuelto, a book about the nature of our economic and political environment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to chair the judging panel for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The finalists for the 2013 National Book Award have been announced anI, for the first time, a free ebook series with samples of all the finalists' work is available for download. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 28-year-old novelist from New Zealand, the youngest ever to win the prize, addressed the critics who have approached her complex novel with trite assumptions about gender.Running on a mere 2½ hours of sleep and exactly 12 hours after winning the Man Booker Prize for her novel “The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The contenders for the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature prizes are now narrowed down to five. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2013 National Book Award finalists were announced on Wednesday, and for the first time, the National Book Foundation has offered a free ebook series with samples of the finalists' work.The 2013 National Book Award finalists were announced on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, and for the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]