Apparently, J.K. Rowling’s bruised reputation has not lowered the value of her books. Yesterday, a rare first edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sold at auction for $471,000, which Heritage Auctions says is “the highest price ever paid for the boy wizard’s debut... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-12-10 18:27:50 UTC ]
‘They Can’t Take Your Name’ is the first crime novel in a planned series about the wrongs of the justice system. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
Lucy Jago’s story fittingly takes place in the corrupt, licentious court of England’s James I. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
The year’s most transporting novels have taken us to the past and around the globe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-09 10:00:10 UTC ]
From epic voyages to haunting folk tales, here are the highlights of an otherworldly year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-08 10:00:15 UTC ]
A recent roundup of the ‘best books of 2021’ had every possible genre of novel – with the unsurprising exception of romanceIn the four months since my first novel came out, I’ve had the same conversation probably a dozen times.“What’s it about?” a well-meaning stranger will ask. “Well,” I’ll... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-05 15:25:24 UTC ]
Seven books comb through history, travel to distant planets and imagine our A.I. future. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-03 20:26:32 UTC ]
Twelve new yarns will whisk readers to the past, where life was every bit as complicated, dramatic and story-worthy as the present. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-03 14:00:06 UTC ]
Facing difficult comparisons to last year when Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' was piling up huge sales numbers, unit sales still increased 9.7% last week over 2020 as adult fiction sales jumped 35.3%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Ed Lake is moving to Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the newly created role of publishing director for non-fiction after five years at Profile. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 10:49:33 UTC ]
A look at the big hits and obscure winners that transported readers to other worlds. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-11-18 15:00:42 UTC ]
Society of Young Publishers member Marta Pacini has founded Disturbance Press, a new independent focused on publishing fiction with a social justice theme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-17 17:51:01 UTC ]
Patrick Radden Keefe has won the UK’s prestigious 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for his latest book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, which investigates the legacy of the family behind Purdue Pharma, which produced and sold OxyContin and helped launch the opioid crisis.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-17 14:00:39 UTC ]
Known to legions of radio listeners for her exuberant coverage of literature and culture, she was a self-described “resident nerd” at NPR. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-11-16 04:21:16 UTC ]
“Joined of course by Emma, Elizabeth Bennet, Anne Elliot, Marianne — well, that’s enough.,” says the renowned British biographer, whose latest book is “The Young H.G. Wells.” “We all enjoy heroines who don’t always behave themselves.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-11 10:00:03 UTC ]
Damon Galgut's The Promise (Chatto & Windus) has thundered to the top of the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top 20, the week of its Booker Prize win. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 19:53:38 UTC ]
Today, the American Library Association announced the 2022 shortlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The awards, established in 2012, celebrate the best books in fiction and nonfiction for adult readers, and will honor each winner with $5000. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-08 16:19:31 UTC ]
Bestselling author Ken Follett said "it doesn't appeal" to him to write non-fiction and insists his life lacks the necessary drama for memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-06 02:23:57 UTC ]
The submissions period for the second cycle of the still-new German Nonfiction Prize runs to November 19, as seven jurors are named. The post German Nonfiction Book Prize Names Its 2022 Jury appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-02 12:10:32 UTC ]
The 2021 shortlists have been revealed for the Staunch Prize’s unpublished flash fiction and short stories without violence to women, while the original book prize is on hold until 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 12:22:21 UTC ]