Surfing memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by New Yorker journalist William Finnegan (Corsair) has scooped the 28th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award's Graham Sharpe on the process of choosing a winner and the history of the prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sunny Singh, author and chair of judges for the Jhalak Prize, has called the efforts of British publishers "pathetic" due to the "shockingly low" submissions to the prize created to celebrate British BAME writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
How Machines Work by David Macaulay (Dorling Kindersley) was today announced as the winner of the £10,000 Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2016, which champions the best science books for under-14s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bruce Springsteen's memoir Born to Run (Simon & Schuster) has been longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize alongside memoirs from musicians Johnny Marr and Robbie Robertson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Sunny Singh calls British publishing ‘pathetic’ as inaugural £1,000 Jhalak prize receives only 51 entriesThe chair of the judges for the inaugural Jhalak prize, the author Sunny Singh, has branded British publishers “pathetic” after the award created to recognise black, Asian and minority... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Mike McCormack, Paul O’ Connell and Tana French are some of winners of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2016 held in Dublin’s Double Tree Hilton yesterday evening (16th November). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the 67th National Book Awards were about to get underway in New York last night (16th November), 76-year-old US Congressman John Lewis, an American hero and living legend of the Civil Rights Movement, told The Bookseller: "We have to continue to stand up, speak up, and continue to fight. We... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a year plagued by racial tensions, Colson Whitehead took the National Book Award for fiction for his novel "The Underground Railroad," a visceral and creative imagining of a female slave's escape from slavery. Although it takes years to write a book and bring it to publication, the National... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Libyan writer Hisham Matar has won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, awarded at the Biographers' Club prize dinner yesterday evening (15th November) at the Savile Club in London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction this year for his novel “The Underground Railroad.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an evening of references to the US general election, the National Book Award ceremony brought to the fore writers of color, the Civil Rights movement, and joy as 'an act of resistance.' The post The 2016 National Book Awards: Lewis, Kendi, Borutzky, Whitehead and Politics appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Wednesday evening, November 16, five finalists for the Young People's Literature prize headed to Cipriani Wall Street in lower Manhattan for the 67th National Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the 67th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, the junction where politics and publishing meet was in the spotlight from the start. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philippe Sands' East West Street (W&N), a personal account of the history of genocide and crimes against humanity, has won the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The University of East London is launching a new literary fiction prize for young adults, the CityLife Prize for Fiction for Young Writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Folio Society took home three British Book Design & Production Awards last night, including the ceremony’s top award, with a string of smaller and niche operations also lauded for their bold approaches to publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Tramp Press), a book written in a single novel-length sentence, has won the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 for "boldly original fiction”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish publishers Tramp Press and New Island are among the small presses that have been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goldsmiths Press has released an app for The Goldsmiths Prize ahead of the latest winner, due to be announced tomorrow (9th November). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]