Hercule Poirot and Miss Marples are among golden age sleuths giving new inspiration to a genre tired of alcoholic divorcees and goth hackersForget domestic noir and put down all those books with “Girl” in the title. Crime fiction is turning back the clock to its golden age with a host of books... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book that was slow to find a home has now achieved success: A.S. Patric's 'Black Rock White City' is the 2016 winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award. The post Debut Novel on Immigration Wins Australia’s Miles Franklin Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray is taking three of its "most exciting and lauded" debut writers, Andrew Michael Hurley, Lisa McInerney and Jessie Greengrass, on a nationwide tour of Waterstones bookshops in Bath, Liverpool and London this September. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet Andrew McMillan has been shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize for his debut poetry collection Physical (Jonathan Cape). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is to publish an “extraordinarily gripping” debut novel by former Faber editor Kate Murray-Browne. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Offering short, fast-paced novels designed to encourage book reading, James Patterson’s BookShots imprint sold a combined total of about 30,000 copies the first week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vintage has released a special 3D paperback edition of Haruki Murakami’s first two novels Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Viking has acquired All the Good Things: a "major" debut novel by Clare Sita Fisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Guardian First Book Award is to close after 17 years due to a crowded "awards landscape" and the financial constraints of running the prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House and the Daily Mail have launched a “major” competition which will offer new writing talent a publishing deal and a £20,000 advance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first project in the pipeline for the just-announced Michael Mann Books is a new novel by Don Winslow. 'The Cartel' author will co-create a book, with Mann, about the American mobsters Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Filming has finished and editing is underway for the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton' first novel The Rehearsal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Submissions now are open for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize, for debut books that explore the LGBT experience in poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction. The post Submissions Open for the UK’s Polari First Book Prize 2016 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Released on February 16, 'The Widow' by Fiona Barton came in at #2 on the iBooks bestsellers chart for the week ended February 21. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Evening Standard has launched the Oscar’s First Book Prize 2016 and is inviting UK publishers to submit entries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of Gloria Steinem's On the Road have peaked after it was selected as the first read for Emma Watson's new feminist book club. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here I Am is the story of an American Jewish family, set against a background of traumatic events in the Middle EastJonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in 11 years, set against a backdrop where Israel is invaded and the Middle East has been hit by an earthquake, will be published next... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is publishing award-winning journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams’ first book Rise: Surviving and Thriving After Trauma. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew McMillan has become the first poet to win the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award with his “elegantly poised and intimate” collection of poems, Physical (Jonathan Cape). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unbound has launched The Star Witness, the first novel from “legendary” comedy scriptwriter and performer, Andy Hamilton, on its crowdfunding site. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]