Other National Book Critics Circle honorees include writer John Lewis Gaddis for 'George F. Kennan: An American Life' and Maya Jasanoff for 'Liberty's Exiles.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The under-the-radar author won for her collection "Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories."Reporting from New York -- The National Book Critics Circle gave its 2011 fiction prize to Edith Pearlman, an under-the-radar writer of short stories, at its annual awards ceremony Thursday evening at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish author Emma Donoghue has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 after making... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A novel banned by the Chinese government has made the longlist for the Independent Foreign... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orange and Booker-shortlisted author Emma Donoghue ihas been shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emerging authors and illustrators have made every category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards this year, alongside their better known counterparts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A guide to Estonian socks, an examination of the role of the fungus in Christian art, and a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Ross Raisin, Michele Roberts and Anjali Joseph will take their place alongside BBC London... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agency Janklow & Nesbit has secured a six-figure US publishing deal for Snapper by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year's shortlist for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize includes new talent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Cult of the Leader (Wiley), written by Christopher Bones, has been named as the CMI... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last Monday, the American Library Association announced its annual Youth Media Awards at its Midwinter conference, held this year in Dallas. The 2012 John Newbery Medal went to author Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt (FSG), a semiautobiographical story set in the town of Norvelt, Pa. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gareth Brookes' The Black Project has won Myriad Editions' first competition for a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hutchinson has bought Lamb by Bonnie Nazdam, a début novel which won the 2011 Flaherty-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Burnside's Black Cat Bone (Jonathan Cape) has won the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has won the Costa Poetry Award for The Bees (Picador), and debut... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist Caitlin Moran's take on modern feminism How to Be A Woman, published by Ebury, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Friday Project's Confessions of a GP has been crowned the top-selling UK ebook of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first annual literary prize of prizes has been awarded to Emmanuel Carrè... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Catherine Hall has beaten authors including Coim Tóibín and Jackie Kay to this year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]