The acclaimed young Irish author Sally Rooney is the winner of the 2018 Costa Book Prize in the novel category. The overall Costa Book of the Year is to be named January 29. The post Ireland’s Sally Rooney Leads Costa Prize Category Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling thriller author LJ Ross has established a crime writing award worth £2,500 to celebrate the North East. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer and broadcaster Kate Humble and novelist Rachel Joyce will join the final judging panel which selects the overall winner of the 2018 Costa Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
MP Tulip Siddiq will chair the judges’ panel for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing, which from this year is only open to non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney’s Normal People is the critics’ choice for book of the year, with eight publications including it in their end-of-year reviews. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperFiction is joining forces with the Comedy Women in Print Prize, with the publisher offering the winner a publishing contract and £5,000 advance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet Kate Clanchy is to chair the judging panel for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gwendoline Riley has scooped the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Fiction 2017 for her fifth novel First Love (Granta). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The annual British Book Awards, with winners to be announced May 13, are widening their recognition of independent publishers and of nonfiction and illustrated work in children's books. The post British Book Awards Expanded for 2019 in Children’s Books, Small Presses appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chicken House has four titles shortlisted for the inaugural STEAM prize for books that highlight the importance of STEAM subjects (science, technology, engineering, arts, maths). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
With her novel First Love, the 39-year-old author joins eminent former winners including Seamus Heaney and Alice OswaldGwendoline Riley’s unsparing depiction of an abusive relationship in her novel First Love has won her the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize.First Love, the English author’s fifth... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by Hay Festival founder Peter Florence, the 2019 Man Booker Prize jury features a pianist and composer, a filmmaker, a broadcaster and a publisher. The post Man Booker Prize for Fiction Announces Its 2019 Jury appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones has named The House Between Tides by Sarah Maine as its Scottish Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Blackwell’s bookseller Daisy Johnson has won the retailer’s Book of the Year for her "outstanding" Man Booker-shortlisted novel Everything Under (Jonathan Cape). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tessa Jowell and Frances D’Souza have won Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize has returned for a second year, newly expanded, with partners across the world and a new residency in Andalucia. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black has won this year’s £6,000 Saltire Book of the Year award for All That Remains: A Life in Death (Transworld), while Canongate picked up the prize for publisher of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books from Granta, Hodder & Stoughton and Pan Macmillan have been unveiled as Foyles’ Books of the Year, with Convenience Store Woman by Japanese author Sayaka Murata taking the fiction crown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Biographers’ Club has revealed its shortlist for 2018’s Tony Lothian Prize, awarding £2,000 to the best proposal for a first uncommissioned biography. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney's "astounding" love story Normal People (Faber & Faber) has been named Waterstones' Book of the Year 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]