Octogenarian Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Phoenix Yard Books, which launched in 2011, is to expand its fiction publishing in 2013 with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Raintree has acquired the first titles for its fledgling fiction list, Curious Fox, from Fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
An unconventional collection of novels failed to generate a consensus among the Pulitzer board members. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The literary genre is white-hot in Hollywood, with filmmakers bidding on unpublished books and paying as much as $1 million for the rights to relatively modest sellers.The back-to-back blockbuster successes of "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and now "The Hunger Games" have turned the hunt for fresh... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
By encouraging readers to tackle longer, more sophisticated novels, the queen of daytime TV may have hurt overall fiction sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Other National Book Critics Circle honorees include writer John Lewis Gaddis for 'George F. Kennan: An American Life' and Maya Jasanoff for 'Liberty's Exiles.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The under-the-radar author won for her collection "Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories."Reporting from New York -- The National Book Critics Circle gave its 2011 fiction prize to Edith Pearlman, an under-the-radar writer of short stories, at its annual awards ceremony Thursday evening at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
A novel banned by the Chinese government has made the longlist for the Independent Foreign... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Louisa Joyner is to take up the permanent role of editorial director at HarperFiction, reflecting... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Lifespan of a Fact' lays out a thought-provoking debate of the issue between authors John D'Agata and Jim Fingal.The key passage in John D'Agata and Jim Fingal's "The Lifespan of a Fact" (W.W. Norton: 124 pp., $17.95 paper) comes late in the book, during an exchange on the role of fact in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
American author Curtis Sittenfeld has been announced as the latest author to re-create a Jane... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld titles earn pride of place in both the Mass-market and Original Fiction charts this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith is to promote cross- over young adult (YA) titles more directly to adults via a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germany’s top fiction title at the end of December, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson climbed up from #5, supplanting previous chart-topper Inheritance (Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance was also #2 in Spain). Jonasson’s novel has sold more... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jon Appleton has been appointed to the newly-created post of editorial director for fiction at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Sutherland, a former judge and chair of the Man Booker prize, is to chair the judging panel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Saqi Books is to launch a new non-fiction imprint, with plans to publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gibson Square Books will be increasingly "dipping its toe" into fiction, following on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]