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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Penguin Press title Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power has won the Financial... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-02 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 ]
Epubli, the Holtzbrinck-owned German self-publishing platform, reflects on its methods and motivations for running a book prize suitable for the 21st century. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel translated from French is among the six titles shortlisted for the inaugural... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Members of the public have voted Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, published by Walker, has won the 2012 Guardian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Australia's first major literary prize for women's writing, the Stella Prize, said to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Group, which also sponsors the Man Booker Prize, has withdrawn its support from the Man Asian Literary Prize, which will be unable to go on after this year if another sponsor isn't found. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broadcaster, critic and writer Mark Lawson is returning for a second year to chair the judging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]