Want to be in with a shot at winning the Women's Prize? Kiera O'Brien crunches the numbers to tell you how. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Professor Peter Marshall of Warwick University has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize 2018 for Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale University Press)—a book seven years in the making, based on more than two decades of research. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of last year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for young authors has made deals well over six figures across five countries for a book about technology innovation, with William Collins scooping the book in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author Marian Keyes has reportedly accused the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize of sexism after failing to make the shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Mustafa’s Jumper' by Coral Rumble has won this year’s The Caterpillar Poetry Prize, given every year for an unpublished poem written by an adult for children. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A children's book published by a tiny independent publisher has beaten off competition from authors such as Malala Yousafzai and Gill Lewis to win the Little Rebels Children's Book Award for Radical Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize in Literature may not be awarded in 2019 unless trust is restored in the Swedish Academy that administers the prize, the Nobel Foundation’s executive director Lars Heikensten has said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 50th anniversary 'Golden Man Booker Prize' will go to one of the five titles shortlisted from five decades of previous winners. The public now is voting to determine which of these books will be most 'golden' of all. The post At the Hay Festival, the Man Booker Prize Announces Its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Deirdre Sullivan and illustrator Karen Vaughan have won the 28th Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award for their "remarkable" book Tangleweed and Brine (Little Island Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A trend toward public reading-engagement projects continues, this time as the European Union Prize for Literature's 10th-anniversary short-fiction competition opens for reads and votes on newly created 'European stories.' The post The European Union Prize for Literature Launches Its 10th... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Olga Tokarczuk has become the first Polish author to scoop the £50,000 Man Booker International Prize for Flights, "brilliantly translated" by Jennifer Croft and published by independent press Fitzcarraldo Editions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three attorney-authors are up for this year's Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, with an autographed copy of the late writer's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' waiting for the winner. The public votes through June 30. The post Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction Shortlisters: Lawyers in Love With... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been withheld for the first time in its 18 years because none of the entries "prompted unanimous, abundant laughter". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our pictures round-up of the 2018 British Book Awards features authors Judith Kerr and Philip Pullman, Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page, literary agent Madeleine Milburn and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In categories of art, photography, fiction, nonfiction, and speciality books, the 213-year-old New England Society announces winners of its award for trade books of regional interest and significance. The post New England Society Names Five 2018 Book Awards: Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, and Travel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A collection of poems by Parisien-born Pascale Petit has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Axel Scheffler said that Brexit makes him “sad and angry every day” as he picked up the Illustrator of the Year prize at The British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
There’s A Pig Up My Nose by John Dougherty and Laura Hughes (Egmont) has won the Oscar’s Book Prize 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 'Nibbies,' as they're known, combined their usual glamour with a certain amount of politically tinged commentary, Brexit coming in for sharp criticism as the industry's best-performing people and writings were honored at the British Book Awards. The post British Book Awards Include Political... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Pullman and Eleanor Oliphant author Gail Honeyman are honoured at the British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]