Politicians have voted Nick Clegg’s How to Stop Brexit as the best non-fiction by a parliamentarian this year in the Parliamentary Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme editor Sarah Sands has been unveiled as the chair of the judges for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever Dundas’ "captivating" novel Goblin (Saraband) has won the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award, it was announced at a ceremony held in Edinburgh. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will chair the judging panel for the 2018 Russian Book Prize run by Pushkin House. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kim Moore has won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her poetry collection The Art of Falling (Seren Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Pullman's return to the world of His Dark Materials is a hit with bookshop staff. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Pullman’s first instalment of the Book of Dust has been crowned the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes and John Connolly are among the authors honoured at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker International Prize-winning translator and publisher Deborah Smith is to support national charity The Reader by match-funding donations to the total value of £5,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kiwis looking for a summer read should take a "risk" on a book from the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist, one of the awards' organisers says. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Liberal Democrat leader's novel Open Arms isn't shortlisted for the prize, despite "many" nominations. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelists Jim Crace, Nikesh Shukla and writer Kate Summerscale are to be the judges of next year's Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anuk Arudpragasam has won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, published by Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Redhill was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and its attendant C$100,000 purse for his novel 'Bellevue Square' (Doubleday Canada) on November 20. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the award ceremony in Bangladesh this year, the DSC Prize this year goes to Anuk Arudpragasam for his debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage. The post DSC Prize in South Asian Literature Goes to Sri Lankan Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
David France has won the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for his account of the plague years of the AIDS epidemic, How to Survive a Plague (Picador). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
British historian Daniel Beer has been named as the 2017 winner of the $75,000 (£56,820) International Cundill History Prize – the richest in non-fiction for a single work in English. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada (Portobello Books) and translated by Susan Bernofsky has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker longlistee Nicola Barker has won the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize with H(a)ppy (William Heinemann), a novel described as “an embodiment of the defiant and inventive spirit”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barker beats novels by Will Self and Jon McGregor to take home the £10,000 literary prize for her narrative-bending vision of a dystopian futureNicola Barker’s H(a)ppy has won this year’s Goldsmiths prize for “fiction at its most novel”, praised by judges as a work of “vaulting ambition”.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]