Peters Fraser & Dunlop will continue its sponsorship of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize until 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mohammed Hasan Alwan has been shortlisted for a second time for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo and Sarah Crossan are among the nominees for the Children’s Book Award 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones' 2016 Book of the Year, The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, has been longlisted for the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Goldsmiths Prize-winning Solar Bones by Mike McCormack. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Originals by Adam Grant, published by Ebury Press imprint W H Allen, has won the Chartered Management Institute’s Management Book of the Year Awards 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 18-strong shortlists for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 show a strong presence from independent Chicken House as well as publishers Hachette and Penguin Random House. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Camille Whitcher, a 2016 graduate of the Cambridge School of Arts Illustration MA, has won the 2017 Children’s Picture Book Prize, organised by the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Brighton-based indie publisher Salariya Book Company Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from independents Faber, Peepal Tree Press, Chicken House and Jacaranda feature on the inaugural shortlist for the Jhalak Prize for a Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, alongside works from PRH's Harvill Secker and Pan Macmillan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Julian Sayarer's book Interstate: Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation (Arcadia) has been named Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV presenter Claudia Winkleman is to join author Cathy Rentzenbrink and Amazon's director of books, Dan Mucha, on the judging panel for children's book award Oscar’s Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sebastian Barry becomes the first novelist to win the prestigious Costa Book of the Year prize twice. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sebastian Barry has been named winner of the Costa Book of the Year for a second time for his novel Days Without End (Faber & Faber), following a unanimous decision by the judges. The book, which follows character Thomas McNulty, who has crossed the Atlantic to rebuild his life, was praised... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sebastian Barry, who has won the Costa Book of the Year for a second time, tells the BBC that he dedicated the prize to his son, but reveals his children don't read his books. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK’s answer to the Nobel Prize for Literature – the £40,000 David Cohen Prize - is now being managed by New Writing North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent is among the dozen books longlisted for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is seeking a new sponsor after Baileys, which has backed the prize for the past four years, decided not to renew its support in 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker Prize is unaffected by Tesco’s merger with The Booker Group, its organisers have clarified. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wales Book of the Year is going through a major review in order for it to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist and broadcaster Andrew Marr is chairing the jury for the 2017 Forward Prizes for Poetry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]