Hachette Books Ireland has acquired two books by Irish author and journalist Emily Hourican who was inspired by the real-life story of the Guinness founder's daughters. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-09 12:27:08 UTC ]
HQ, and imprint of HarperCollins, will publish the first adult non-fiction book by space journalist and TV presenter Sarah Cruddas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 19:08:41 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo, Amelia Gentleman and Kate Clanchy are among the longlisted authors for this year's Orwell Prize for Political Writing and Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 16:58:58 UTC ]
History books are great for sharing a macro-level view of the past, but historical fiction reveals truths about the way people lived in history. The post Historical Fiction: Discover New Truths in the Past by Eliot Pattison appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2020-04-04 12:00:35 UTC ]
Bookouture has revealed the launch list for its new non-fiction imprint, Thread, publishing "leading experts and voices" across a range of topics including self-development, personal finance, parenting, nutrition and fitness, popular psychology and inspirational memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-03 11:52:00 UTC ]
The Women's Prize for Fiction award ceremony has been postponed until September because of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 08:46:16 UTC ]
“Are Snakes Necessary?” is exactly what you’d expect from a maestro of violent sexploitation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-24 19:16:42 UTC ]
Hodder Non-Fiction is making a series of changes to its editorial team: Anna Baty is joining from The Bodley Head as senior commissioning editor, while Zuleika’s Tom Perrin is taking on a consultant editor role and Huw Armstrong has been promoted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 09:00:03 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has made some changes to its fiction editorial team, making new hires of Noor Sufi and Molly Power as commissioning editors for its crime and thriller and SFF lists, and promoting Kimberley Atkins to publisher for Women's Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-16 13:08:15 UTC ]
Fall into the matriarchal worlds of these science fiction and fantasy books for Women's History Month and beyond. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-16 10:34:17 UTC ]
‘The Man in the High Castle” and other alternative-history novels make us wonder. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-12 16:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been a day since the publication of The Mirror and the Light—the final installment of Hilary Mantel’s celebrated trilogy about Tudor England, starring the enigmatic Thomas Cromwell—so you’ve already blazed through it, right? Well, whether you have already or you’re about to, once you’ve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-11 08:55:24 UTC ]
Book Reviews Apala Bhowmick The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die (John Murray, 2019), by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, translated from the original Bangla by Arunava Sinha, is a fast-paced thriller about the rescue mission around the flagging finances of an... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-03-10 15:47:11 UTC ]
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has unveiled this year’s longlist after "lively debates" among the judges. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-09 10:22:42 UTC ]
The book is a sumptuous scrapbook of photographs, magazine covers, artwork and hundreds of articles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-04 17:19:27 UTC ]
HarperNonFiction has won a six-way auction for the "unflinching" memoir of Vanessa Frake, the former governor of one of Britain’s most notorious prisons. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 05:40:46 UTC ]
We can’t stop telling stories about pandemics, even as we wait for one to hit us. As coronavirus spreads across the world, so have headlines about the ways that storytellers, from those in Babylonia to contemporary novelists and Hollywood, have used infectious disease for narrative effect. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-02 16:51:35 UTC ]
Indie presses are increasingly dominating translated fiction because of the way they find and promote authors, according to an analysis of the longlists for the Booker International Prize and its predecessor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-28 06:05:08 UTC ]
Despite fears around the coronavirus disrupting the London Book Fair, agents are reporting undimmed interest in highbrow but accessible non-fiction, with feminist fiction also faring well. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-28 02:35:06 UTC ]
Granta has signed non-fiction debut Written in the Sand by British poet and essayist Jack Parlett. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-27 09:17:55 UTC ]