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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Four works of non-fiction, including Hisham Matar's award-winning biography The Return (Viking), have been shortlisted for the £20,000 Rathbones Folio Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrated book publisher Abrams is to launch a new text-driven imprint with a focus on narrative non-fiction called Abrams Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion Non-fiction will be relaunched as Seven Dials in September, with a remit to increase its global profile. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ed Faulkner, currently deputy publisher at PRH division Ebury, is joining HarperCollins as publisher, HarperNonFiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers Marina Benjamin and Joanna Walsh, author/illustrator Oliver Kugler and poet Jack Underwood are on the shortlist for a new prize for creative non-fiction writing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Non-fiction had a strong month in the Audio Download Chart, as the Harry Potter canon is displaced from Audible’s epper echelons in September by a slew of newcomers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Folio Prize is planned to return in 2017, with its remit extended to include non-fiction for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House is publishing British astronaut Tim Peake's non-fiction debut, Hello, is this planet Earth? in November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed a deal to publish children’s non-fiction with the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan non-fiction is expanding its business and pop-science list with two "major" acquisitions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Piatkus, part of Little, Brown, has appointed Jillian Young as commissioning editor for non-fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere non-fiction has acquired a debut health and fitness book by Instagram sensation Faya Nilsson, a personal trainer and winner of Cosmopolitan’s Lifestyle Blogger of the Year for her blog, fitnessontoast.com. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape is publishing BRIT(ish): Getting Under the Skin of Britain’s Race Problem by Afua Hirsch, social affairs editor for Sky News. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neil Gaiman is set to release two books this year – a selection of non-fiction writings and a special edition of his first novel Neverwhere, illustrated by Children’s laureate Chris Riddell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s publisher Nosy Crow has appointed Katherine Halligan to the new role of head of non-fiction and activity publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press will launch its non-fiction line with Summer Before the Dark by Volker Weidermann later this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile m.d. Andrew Franklin has defended UK trade publishers against criticism that they are not producing good non-fiction books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]