Lucy Cavendish College, part of the University of Cambridge, has named the 2017 winner of its fiction prize as Sarah Ward, with her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ali Smith has been longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 for the first in her Seasonal four-part series, Autumn (Hamish Hamilton). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goldsboro Books has launched a new £2,000 prize for “compelling” contemporary fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hisham Matar has won the first £20,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for his "profound and powerful" memoir The Return (Viking). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picturebook maker Chris Haughton has won the 27th Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award for his "captivating" book Goodnight Everyone (Walker Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Labour politician Alan Johnson, professor Simon James of Durham University and journalist, critic and writer Anita Sethi are some of the names who will judge the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
David France's insider account of the AIDS epidemic, How to Survive A Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS (Picador), has been named the "unanimous" winner of the Green Carnation Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canada’s McGill University is re-launching the US $75,000 Cundill History Prize to highlight history writing as a way to illuminate the truth at a time when informed, factual debate is “increasingly losing out to populism and retrenchment is on the rise”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries (Vintage) has won the 2017 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, making it third time lucky for the author. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 'formulating questions and providing warnings,' Canadian author Margaret MacMillan's work embodies the importance of history in today's political moment. The post ‘Nixon in China’ Historian Margaret MacMillan Named To Chair Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has announced its shortlist for this year’s £10,000 Betty Trask Prize - including for the first time a self-published novel, Speak its Name by Kathleen Jowitt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
McGill University is relaunching its Cundhill History Prize, which recognizes "the best history writing in English," in its 10th anniversary year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field has been named the winner of Oscar’s Book Prize 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waikato author Catherine Chidgey was the big winner at this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Head of Zeus has two books shortlisted for the £10,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Elif Shafak and Lucy Hughes-Hallett are named judges in London; the public is one of five judges in the Alabama-based Harper Lee Prize. The post Competition Notes: Sunday Times Prize Judges, Harper Lee Legal Fiction Prize Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a "hotly contested" auction, Cornerstone has acquired a book of strange-but-true trivia authored by the "QI elves" behind weekly podcast "No Such Thing As A Fish". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiona McFarlane’s “unforgettable collection of stunning short stories” has been named as winner of the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alice Curry, founder and publisher of Lantana Press, has been awarded the 2017 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for being a "great role model for future generations starting out in publishing". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Capturing one of the richest purses for young writers, Australian Fiona McFarlane wins the Dylan Thomas for work called 'stunning' and 'unforgettable.' The post Australian Fiona McFarlane’s ‘The High Places’ Wins Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]