Author Lauren James has established The Climate Fiction Writers League, a group of over 50 international published authors writing about climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-07 22:31:59 UTC ]
Anthologies like “The Big Book of Modern Fantasy” cover a lot of ground. Illustrated books like “Flyway” offer something special. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-12-07 14:00:00 UTC ]
Welbeck Publishing Group is launching a new children's fiction imprint, Welbeck Flame, with Felicity Alexander joining as associate publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 21:16:04 UTC ]
Emma Styles has won the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award 2020 for her novel, No Country for Girls. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 14:41:36 UTC ]
The Baillie Gifford Prize, founded in 1999 following the end of the NCR Book Award for Nonfiction, celebrates the best non-fiction writing in the English language of the year. The honor comes with £50,000, and each of the shortlisted authors will receive £1,000. Previous winners include Hallie... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-24 19:57:04 UTC ]
THE SKELETONS IN Ray Bradbury’s closet are out in Killer, Come Back to Me, a career-spanning collection of the science fictioneer’s crime stories. These 300 pages present a new side to readers who only know Bradbury from such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953).... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
HarperNonFiction has won a four-way auction for Women in the War by Times defence editor Lucy Fisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-20 10:25:59 UTC ]
The novels that captivated us include James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” and Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-19 13:30:00 UTC ]
Dystopias, adventures and new worlds in books by Stephen Graham Jones, Zen Cho and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-19 13:30:00 UTC ]
Hachette Book Group’s Grand Central Publishing division has formed GCP Balance and hired Callisto Media’s Nana K. Twumasi to head it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
Dust off your formal wear and break out the bubbly because the National Book Awards (a.k.a. the Oscars of the book world) are nearly upon us. Yes, in just a few short hours, five dumbstruck authors will be fêted, garlanded, and welcomed into the American literary pantheon. For those of you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 17:04:53 UTC ]
Let’s start our morning right with the latest book news. Today, the American Library Association announced the shortlist of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, which honors the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-17 15:48:43 UTC ]
With social media feeds and news sites reading like a dystopian novel, it’s hardly surprising that many readers have lost their appetite for post-apocalyptic books and developed a taste for compelling escapist fiction as a means of escape. But, at a time when our familiar world has been turned... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-15 23:17:41 UTC ]
Authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Malka Older discuss how storytelling can help us govern for the future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-11-11 14:15:00 UTC ]
David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins) has bounced up five places to claim the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction number one spot, in the same week it sold 89,558 copies through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 16:20:16 UTC ]
A Canadian author of fiction will be awarded $100,000 in the comfort of their own home tonight as the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala goes virtual this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-11-09 17:43:21 UTC ]
Donald Trump, as bizarre and unpredictable as a satirical president, ushered us into a world where novels can't outstrip the weirdness of reality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2020-11-07 13:00:04 UTC ]
Katherine Armstrong is to join Simon & Schuster UK as deputy publishing director in the adult fiction department. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 00:45:39 UTC ]
Amina Youssef has been appointed commissioning editor at Simon & Schuster Children's fiction division, as the team announces new acquisition responsibilities as part of a larger growth plan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 19:00:14 UTC ]
Bloombury is to publish the first major work by 27-year-old economist Grace Blakeley, after winning a 10-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 18:38:16 UTC ]