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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Andrew McMillan’s series of “hymns to the male body”, Physical (Jonathan Cape), has become the second collection of poetry to be shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award since it was established in 1999. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Name of God Is Mercy: A Conversation with Andrea Tornielli' will be published in January 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere is set to publish a debut novel co-authored by actor and filmmaker Gary Oldman and film producer Douglas Urbanski (pictured). Blood Riders tells the story of “vampire cowboys” and involves a mysterious man fleeing a curse in a town that the gold rush left behind. The collaboration... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Murder mystery The Book of Mirrors, snapped up by publishers in 18 countries, is expected to make Eugene Chirovici a seven-figure sumHe came to live in Britain only three years ago, now Eugene Chirovici’s first attempt at writing a novel in English has become a global publishing phenomenon.The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Glasgow-based author Kirsty Logan has won the Polari First Book Prize 2015 for her short story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales (Salt Publishing). Now in its fifth year, the Polari First Book Prize celebrates the best debut books exploring the LGBT experience, whether through... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]