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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]