Little, Brown commissioning editor Rowan Cope has acquired an acclaimed French novel about the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has been forced to pulp 6,000 copies of a novel after wrongly labelling it as the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
John McCullough's poetry collection Frost Fairs has won the Polari First Book Prize 2012.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
An exposé of doping in professional cycling has won the William Hill Sports Book of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Hall and Jean Sprackland have been named the 2012 winners of the Portico Prize for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel, James Meek, Stephen May and Joff Winterhart are in the running for best novel in the Costa Book Awards shortlists Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erdrich's 'The Round House' wins for fiction and Boo's book chronicling life in a Mumbai slum wins for nonfiction. David Ferry wins for poetry and 'Goblin Secrets' wins Young People's Literature.Novelist Louise Erdrich and journalist Katherine Boo took the top prizes at the National Book Awards... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Awards were given to writers Louise Erdrich and first-time author Katherine Boo in the fiction and nonfiction categories, respectively, while William Alexander and David Ferry were awarded the young people's literature and poetry prizes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erotic tale earns nomination for the National Book Award, while another surprisingly sexy tale is also making waves in Britain. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2012-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
EL James' best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey will compete with novels by Kate Mosse, JoJo Moyes and Bernard Cornwell at this year's National Book of the Year Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wade Davis has won the £20,000 Samuel Johnson prize for Non-Fiction for his book about... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erotica star E. L James will go head-to-head with authors such as Victoria Hislop, Bernard... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A gripping account of a doomed attempt to climb Mount Everest has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mumbai's slums, the Iraq war and the fall of Colonel Gaddafi are among the subjects covered by the five titles up for the 2012 Guardian First Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women-only literary prizes have been created in both Canada and Australia to help balance the attention given to work by male authors vs. female authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The awarding of this year's $150,000 FIL literature prize to Peruvian Alfredo Bryce Echenique, an accused plagiarist, has divided writers and critics across Latin America. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from Orchard Books and Jonathan Cape have won this year's Roald Dahl Funny Prizes,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcaster Simon Mayo is longlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal literary award for his first novel, Itch. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Rosalind Prize for Fiction – named for Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' heroine – follows awards like Australia's women-only Stella Prize and the U.K.'s Orange Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The short list for the 1962 National Book Award in fiction was remarkable, including a number of works today regarded as classics, like Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. Yet the prize went to an obscure first novel by a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]