Get to know about WORLD OF WONDERS, the 2020 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
Grigory Rodchenkov has won this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for his memoir The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin’s Secret Doping Empire (W H Allen). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 21:02:42 UTC ]
Blackwell's has revealed its contenders for its 2020 Book of the Year, featuring two titles published by indie presses Knights Of and Influx. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 18:12:11 UTC ]
Camilla Townsend has won the 2020 Cundill History Prize for her work on Aztec history, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 14:11:40 UTC ]
Doreen Cunningham has won £10,000 for her memoir Soundings: A Journey with Whales at this year's Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 05:13:41 UTC ]
Today, The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company announced the winner of its 2020 Business Book of the Year Award, which recognizes a work that provides the “most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.” The prize comes with £30,000 prize and each of the five... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-01 20:59:19 UTC ]
Sarah Frier's 'No Filter' takes the £30,000 Business Book of the Year honor, in a strong shortlist from the FT and McKinsey & Company. The post Sarah Frier Wins the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-01 20:59:13 UTC ]
Gregory Forth’s A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path has won the U.K.-based Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, beating out runner-up Kathryn L. Smithies’s Introducing the Medieval Ass for the honor. No, it’s not autofiction: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path is an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-01 17:25:35 UTC ]
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell has been named Waterstones' Book of the Year 2020, claiming victory over the shortlist by "an overwhelming majority". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-01 02:51:45 UTC ]
News and Events Photo: Quarantine portrait. Tulsa, Oklahoma. March 22, 2020, by Joseph Rushmore. This photograph accompanied the publication of Rilla Askew's "Cataclysm" in the Summer 2020 issue of World Literature Today. The editors of World... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-11-30 21:07:51 UTC ]
More than 50 titles have been named to the 2020-2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award longlists so far, in the program's 15th year. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award Names Longlists in Six Categories appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-30 20:12:15 UTC ]
A new literary competition that celebrates science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) is offering the winner a worldwide publishing contract with Chicken House and a £10,000 royalty advance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 10:30:48 UTC ]
Pam Smy has been awarded the inaugural Invisible Prize for illustrators, run by Edinburgh-based illustrator support initiative Picture Hooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 07:49:04 UTC ]
Submissions for the YA Book Prize, which aims to recognise the best Young Adult fiction from the UK and Ireland, close tomorrow (Tuesday 1st December). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-29 15:41:56 UTC ]
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has been won by The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Nino Haratischvili, translated from German by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin (Scribe). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-27 04:31:57 UTC ]
The Bodley Head and the Financial Times have announced Carrie Jade Williams as the winner of their eighth annual essay prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 18:25:17 UTC ]
Canada triumphs for the first time at for the oddest book title of the year gong. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 10:13:28 UTC ]
Graham Norton, Dara McAnulty and Donal Ryan were among the winning authors at the virtual An Post Irish Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-25 22:26:23 UTC ]
The Costa Book Awards, inaugurated in 1971, are a set of annual literary awards, which recognize and honor British and Irish writers of the English language. The Award comes with £5,000, and the winner from each category will be announced on January 4th. This year, Evan Boland’s posthumous... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-25 16:01:53 UTC ]
Twenty writers from the United Kingdom and Ireland have been chosen from an initial pool of 708 Costa Book Award entries. The post The Costa Book Awards Program Announces Its 2020 Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-11-25 14:14:19 UTC ]