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The book business looks ready to mark a second consecutive year of unit growth of print books. With one week to go in the year, unit sales of print books were up 2.8% compared to the same period in 2014. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer James Heneage, founder of the Ottakar’s chain of bookshops, will chair the final judging panel of the 2015 Costa Book of the Year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From its humble beginnings as a project launched by an "about-to-be-fired editor" in 1974, the annual prize for the best in small press publishing has come quite a long way. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In our third annual Best of the Best round-up, The Bookseller takes a broad look at which titles are gathering consistent mentions as highlights of the year in publishing in newspapers' "Best of 2015" lists. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books by Bill Bryson, Paula Hawkins and John Green are among the shortlist for Sainsbury’s ebook of the year 2015 award. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British startup has shipped to 160 countries, based on its mantra of being ‘a technology company that happens to make physical books’British startup Lost My Name has sold more than 1m of its personalised picture books for children since launching its first title two years ago.The company’s The... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Doubleday) has been named as the WH Smith ‘Book of the Year’. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A fable about friendship and loss by a debut author beats bestselling novels The Girl on the Train and Go Set a Watchman to be named Waterstones Book of the Year. Continue reading at 'BBC News'
[ BBC News | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s book The Fox and the Star by aPenguin cover designer Coralie Bickford-Smith has beaten Harper Lee and Paula Hawkins to be crowned The Waterstones Book of the Year 2015. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michel Faber has won the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year award for The Book of Strange New Things (Hogarth). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrew McMillan has become the first poet to win the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award with his “elegantly poised and intimate” collection of poems, Physical (Jonathan Cape). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Our photographer caught up with the authors (and their editors) who were nominated in the Young People's Literature category. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winners of the 66th National Book Awards were announced at a ceremony at Cipriani in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday evening. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Costa has revealed its shortlists for the 2015 Costa Book Awards, featuring 12 women and eight men, with authors spanning an age range of 27–68 across its five award categories: novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children’s. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Smiths frontman, Morrissey is the hot favourite to win the 2015 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his first novel, List of the Lost. Continue reading at 'BBC News'
[ BBC News | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Monique Schwitter has won the 2015 Swiss Book Prize for her book, One in the Other. She will receive 30,000 Swiss francs in prize winnings. The post Monique Schwitter Wins Swiss Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrew McMillan’s series of “hymns to the male body”, Physical (Jonathan Cape), has become the second collection of poetry to be shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award since it was established in 1999. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2015 has been revealed, featuring a list that would "not have been produced by an algorithm,” the chain's m.d. James Daunt has said. The eight-strong selection nominated by Waterstones booksellers across the UK encompasses four novels, three... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahead of the Shanghai International Children's Book Fair, which runs November 13–15, the winners of the first Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award were announced today at the Baoshan International Folk Arts Exposition. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A former US Marine wins the biennial Warwick Prize for Writing for his book of short stories dealing with American experiences of the Iraq War. Continue reading at 'BBC News'
[ BBC News | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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