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My father, John Hitchin, who has died aged 88, was a marketing and publicity specialist in the publishing industry who spent three decades with Penguin Books, where he was responsible for a number of innovations, including the first paperback gift set and the first display “dump” bin. As... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-28 19:33:32 UTC ]
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Allen Lane has two titles shortlisted for the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize, which celebrates excellence in research and historical writing combined with readability for a wider audience. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-21 02:05:49 UTC ]
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Paul McCartney has written the “extraordinary” story of his life for the first time through the prism of 154 song lyrics, to be published by Allen Lane. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-24 12:41:28 UTC ]
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Malcolm Gladwell will release a “riveting” new book, The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War, this April with Allen Lane. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 05:36:44 UTC ]
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Allen Lane has won a four-way auction for a “vivid and unexpected” group biography of four creative pioneers by Harriet Baker. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-14 19:57:05 UTC ]
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Allen Lane has signed an "all-encompassing" account of the Covid-19 crisis from Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 21:21:35 UTC ]
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Michael Lewis has written a “stunning” book on a group of people who predicted the coronavirus pandemic, to be rushed out by Allen Lane. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 20:37:13 UTC ]
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Allen Lane will publish Nothing Ever Just Disappears, a new history of seven queer lives and the places that made them by writer and academic Diarmuid Hester. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-06 22:14:06 UTC ]
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Allen Lane will publish Paul Mason's How to Stop Fascism, an "original and challenging history of fascism and guide to resisting it". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-01 18:21:48 UTC ]
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Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin UK, will publish Caste: The Lies that Divide Us, an exploration of social history by Isabel Wilkerson. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-17 01:31:24 UTC ]
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Greta Thunberg’s "raw and powerful" family story, written largely by her mother Malena Ernman, will be published by Allen Lane on 5th March. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-18 15:10:37 UTC ]
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My father, Dieter Pevsner, who has died aged 87, was one of a small group of idealists who made up the editorial team at Penguin Books in the late 1950s and 60s and were instrumental in establishing the wide range of affordable literature that we all take for granted today.Dieter was editorial... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-10-03 17:20:10 UTC ]
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The third and final volume of Charles Moore’s epic Margaret Thatcher biography will be released on Super Thursday, Allen Lane has announced. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-25 10:44:22 UTC ]
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YouTube star and professor Antonio Padilla’s debut on extraordinary numbers has gone to Allen Lane in a "significant" seven hour pre-empt. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 02:40:55 UTC ]
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Allen Lane editorial director Tom Penn has snapped up UK and Commonwealth rights for writer and activist Shon Faye’s The Transgender Issue. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane will publish a “lyrical” history of the world by palaeontologist Thomas Halliday. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane will publish Naomi Klein’s On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane will publish Malcolm Gladwell’s first book for six years, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know in September. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane and Yale University Press (YUP) both have two books apiece on the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize 2018 shortlist, which recognises and celebrates books which combine excellence in historical research with readability for a general audience. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane is publishing a book on "global nationalism" by Hassan Damluji, who leads the Middle East team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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