It is no surprise to see aphorism alive and thriving in our current celebrity climate. The forgotten, it may be assumed, never said anything interesting, whereas choice words of the famous live forever at cocktail parties and in book reviews. To carry a portfolio of pithy quotations is to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been announced in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont Press has acquired a debut historical fiction title, The Executioner's Daughter, by TV... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency has appointed David Haviland to build a fiction list, with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder Children’s Books has acquired a new series, Foxy Fiction, by author Caryl Hart and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lion Hudson is launching a fiction imprint “as a platform for Christian novelists from all... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray is planning to expand its non-fiction publishing output and has appointed Georgina... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, published by Walker, has won the 2012 Guardian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Individual donors including Christopher Foyle, Joanna Trollope, ebook site Bilbary, Cherie Blair... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Piccadilly Press is claiming to be the first publisher to have harnessed the 50 Shades-generated... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of digital fiction books increased by 188% in value terms in the first half of the year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eric Obenauf, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Two Dollar Radio, the indie press headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, wants the seven-year-old company to publish more nonfiction, but he doesn’t want to produce more than the five or six titles—primarily fiction—that the publisher currently... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is planning to take a Charles Dickens approach to publishing with the launch of fiction in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has held talks with the organisers of the Women's Prize for Fiction with a view to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The rise of ebooks will "fundamentally change" the types of stories that are written and who they are written by, award-winning author Denise Mina predicts. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
US publishers' sales of ebooks more than doubled in 2011, meaning that the digital book is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The #5 book in Italy in May, Gianluigi Nuzzi’s His Holiness. The Secret Documents of Benedict XVI, has caused international news since its publication. Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested late last month on suspicion of releasing dozens of embarrassing letters to Nuzzi... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiction Uncovered will be running a four-day pop-up radio station, Fiction Uncovered FM at Foyles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A title from crowd-sourcing publisher Unbound has been chosen for Fiction Uncovered’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orange will not renew its title sponsorship of The Women's Prize for Fiction after this year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]