Sathnam Sanghera, Arifa Akbar and Patrick Radden Keefe are among the authors on this year’s 13-strong Baillie Gifford Prize longlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-09 11:28:51 UTC ]
The 2019 Women’s Prize’s judging panel has been unveiled, featuring author and historian Kate Williams, writer Dolly Alderton, and Unbound’s Arifa Akbar among others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
There’s plenty of talent among minority ethnic writers in the UK, but their books rarely make it to the shelves – and that’s shamefulUntil this week, I thought that at least we could be consoled by fiction. That we still had the borderless joys of stories to fend off the dark forces of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pool founder Sam Baker; Robbie Millen and Arifa Akbar, literary editors of the Times and the Independent respectively; authors Viv Groskop and Sali Hughes; and booksellers from Waterstones, Foyles, W H Smith and Booka Bookshop will judge this year’s inaugural Books of the Year awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]