HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired three books in a young fiction series by Lindsey Kelk, an author of adult novels and former children’s book editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette's Octopus Publishing Group is launching a new narrative non-fiction imprint aiming to become "a home for new ideas, inspiring stories and fresh takes on the world". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crime author Stuart McBride discusses Aberdeen's growing "artistic and cultural expertise", ahead of new literary festival Granite Noir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Radical publisher Verso Books is launching its own fiction imprint this September, promising a string of "politically astute" novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is reissuing the celebrated fiction of Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard after nearly 20 years out of print to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Christian publisher’s six-book series, True Colors, features fictional characters in stories that are based on real murders and other crimes in American history. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hollis’s tough-talking self-help book ‘Girl, Wash Your Face’ remains #1 in Religion Nonfiction; Tamera Alexander’s ‘With This Pledge’ is tops in Religion Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Verso Books, an independent publisher of works on radical politics, is launching Verso Fiction, a new imprint focused on translated fiction that will release its first two titles in the fall of 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile Books and Aitken Alexander have launched the Profile Aitken Alexander Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to the best debut trade non-fiction proposal from an academic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction is holding a grand opening in downtown Brooklyn on February 19 in a new $6 million building that features a reading room, a 160-seat auditorium, and a bookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced today at the El-Hakawati Palestinian National Theatre in East Jerusalem. The IPAF - often referred to as the ‘Arabic Booker’ - is an annual literary prize for prose fiction, which encourages the readership of... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-02-05 16:33:45 UTC ]
Black & White Publishing enters its third decade on the back of a superb, near-record set of results, spurred by strong sales of rugby player Doddie Weir’s memoir. Its co-founders discuss the year ahead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Drummond Moir is joining Ebury from Hodder in the role of deputy publisher, as the Penguin Random House division announces the launch of two new narrative non-fiction hubs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodley Head is publishing a new "important" non-fiction book by journalist Rachel Cooke, called The Reckoning. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie bookstores aren't known for stocking a wide assortment of genre fiction titles, but booksellers are finding that it's time for that to change. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins will publish the debut book of broadcaster and Financial Times contributing editor Camilla Cavendish, Extra Time: Ten Lessons for an Ageing Society, in May. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jake Lingwood, who left Ebury in October after more than 20 years, is joining Hachette's Octopus Publishing to launch a new non-fiction imprint specialised in first-person narratives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
“A love letter to great British literary detectives” by US author Kate Racculia has been bought by HarperFiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the past few years, Future Tense has occasionally published short science fiction, including a story from The Windup Girl author Paolo Bacigalupi on a murderous robot and one from Emily St. John Mandel, of Station Eleven fame, on time travel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Clare Mackintosh is making her non-fiction debut with a memoir about family life in the countryside: A Cotswold Family Life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]