HarperCollins imprint 4th Estate has bought a novel and a non-fiction “companion piece” by Mexican author Valeria Luiselli. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Portobello Books is launching a new non-fiction prize for unpublished writers, in association with literary agency C+W and retailer Foyles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Romy Short, assessment director at Renaissance, on how assessment technologies can help get children reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Val McDermid, Christopher Brookmyre, Denise Mina and Stuart MacBride will feature in crime festival Bloody Scotland's first ever book of fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two decades ago, Arundhati Roy released her first novel, The God of Small Things. The response was pretty much everything an author could hope for from a debut. (It was a huge best-seller and won the Booker Prize.) But in the past 20 years, Roy has followed a different path than one might have... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperNonFiction has launched an eight-part podcast for a new sports book called The Mixer by journalist Michael Cox. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Women's Prize for Fiction has announced it is adopting a new, collective sponsorship model instead of a single headline sponsor going forward. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lucy Cavendish College, part of the University of Cambridge, has named the 2017 winner of its fiction prize as Sarah Ward, with her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goldsboro Books has launched a new £2,000 prize for “compelling” contemporary fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dame Hilary Mantel is to give a series of lectures around the UK which will be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite recent challenges, the category keeps drawing in publishers—and readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
At outlets that report to NPD BookScan, total unit sales were 8% higher in the week ended May 14, 2017, than in the comparable week last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers is publishing a new book with HarperCollins at the end of this year and has signed a new two-book deal with the publisher for future publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Elif Shafak and Lucy Hughes-Hallett are named judges in London; the public is one of five judges in the Alabama-based Harper Lee Prize. The post Competition Notes: Sunday Times Prize Judges, Harper Lee Legal Fiction Prize Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books fell 3% in the week ended May 7, 2017, compared to the similar week in 2016, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crime writer and police psychologist Emma Kavanagh has signed a three book deal with Orion Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsury has signed a "major" work of non-fiction entitled The Growth Delusion by David Pilling. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown imprint Sphere has acquired The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green from Hachette Australia. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the Scandi noir boom, dark tales from British authors are making waves abroad. Publishers, agents and authors take up the caseWhen ex-paramedic Daniel Cole signed with agent Sue Armstrong, he was “delighted”. When Armstrong bagged him a six-figure, three-book deal from a British publisher... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Total book sales including physical and digital books rose 6% to £3.5bn, propped up by non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]