Hackney-based independent publisher Influx Press has won the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses for its title Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Biographies of Sir Matt Busby and Bob Paisley are among the books longlisted for the Football Writers’ Association Book of the Year award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has published half the titles on the female-dominated Wellcome Book Prize shortlist, with the book finalists all linked by their complex relationship with mortality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Themed on medical science and society’s relationship to it, the Wellcome Book Prize announces a shortlist for 2018 that includes four debuts. One title is a novel, one is a memoir, and four are nonfiction. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Health and the Human Experience’... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House leads the nominations for The British Book Awards’ Books of the Year and Trade categories, with the consumer publishing giant taking 26 places across both shortlists—18% of the total. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist and author Reni Eddo-Lodge has won the £1,000 Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year for her "incisive" non-fiction debut Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury Circus). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation has announced the names of the 25 judges that will determine the lists of nominees for the 2018 National Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten titles are in the running for this year’s Children’s Books Ireland (CBI) Book of the Year Awards, which celebrates titles by authors and illustrators who were either born in Ireland or reside in the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker International Prize, awarded annually to the best in translated fiction, announced the longlist of 13 novels vying for the 2018 award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East are represented in this year's 13 longlisted books for the Man Booker International Prize, which divides its £50,000 award between translator and author. This year: 108 titles were considered. The post Man Booker International Prize Longlist:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Viking is publishing a new book by presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two previously longlisted authors and one twice-shortlisted writer, Kamila Shamsie, are on this year's Women's Prize for Fiction longlist of 16 novels. The winner takes home £30,000 and a bronze figurine, the 'Bessie.' The post Six Debut Novelists Are on the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's debut novel was initially rejected by British publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Six debut authors, including bookseller Fiona Mozley, Gail Honeyman and Imogen Hermes Gowar, have been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eight authors, including British non-fiction writers Sarah Bakewell and Olivia Laing, have each been recognised with an award of $165,000 (£118,775) from the Windham-Campbell Prize to support their writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber & Faber has three books on the shortlist for this year’s £1,000 Penderyn Music Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three novels have been unveiled as the finalists of the inaugural EBRD Literature Prize, including a Croatian book from Quercus, a Saqi title translated from Turkish and a Russian novel from Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
CrimeFest has withdrawn its offer to host the winner of the recently-launched Staunch Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Four novels that "directly confront and ask questions of both the world and the reader" have been selected as the fiction finalists at this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the nominees for the sixth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize. The winner in each of our categories will be announced March 30. Each winner will receive $1,000. The nominees were selected by Slate’s Jacob Brogan, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]