Bloomsbury and Vintage have scooped double nominations on the 12-strong longlist for this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 01:20:26 UTC ]
Elise Burns is leaving Bloomsbury to join Bonnier Books UK as its new trade sales and export director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-02 22:43:52 UTC ]
Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree will publish a “heartfelt” book about female incontinence by writer Luce Brett entitled PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-29 01:52:50 UTC ]
The Royal Society Science Book Prize shortlist for 2019 has been revealed with nominations for indies Icon, Bloomsbury and Atlantic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-27 01:50:28 UTC ]
Former Bloomsbury publisher Richard Atkinson is joining Penguin Press as publishing director in September. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-19 17:59:21 UTC ]
Little, Brown imprint Sphere has appointed Viking’s Rosanna Forte and Callum Kenny from Bloomsbury as editors working across the fiction list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-14 16:12:18 UTC ]
Cecil Woolf was indeed generous and sociable. Two years ago I visited his home and publishing headquarters off Mornington Crescent in north London, to buy some Bloomsbury Heritage monographs while researching my book Virginia Woolf at Home, on the houses she knew in London, Cornwall and Sussex.I... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-11 16:09:37 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has won a first-hand account of postpartum psychosis by Curtis Brown associate agent Catherine Cho, in a six-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-07 09:49:35 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has won a 15-publisher bidding war for a book on grief by podcaster Cariad Lloyd, in “one of the fiercest auctions” managed by agent Nelle Andrew of PFD, for a "significant" six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-04 20:54:25 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has won an auction for academic Samantha Walton’s exploration of the "long cultural legacy of the ‘nature cure’". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-30 23:59:19 UTC ]
Scholastic’s Strawberrie Donnelly has joined Bloomsbury Children’s Books in the newly created role of art director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 03:23:16 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has scooped two nominations on the Polari 2019 shortlists with titles from indies Faber, Granta and Orenda also up for awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 01:46:32 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed a licensing agreement to make 14,000 of its academic books available through digital textbook platform Classoos. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-25 06:50:05 UTC ]
Bookouture has hired Sphere’s Lucy Dauman and HQ’s Cara Chimirri ahead of a move to the Bloomsbury Building. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 11:24:49 UTC ]
Bloomsbury imprint Absolute will publish Lose Weight & Get Fit by Tom Kerridge, featuring 100 high-flavour recipes for dieting and fitness in December. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-15 01:27:43 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has acquired a book on headaches, Splitting, by neuroscientist Amanda Ellison. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-12 10:41:03 UTC ]
Publisher and nephew of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, he extended the hand of friendship to Woolf scholars and writersThe publisher and editor Cecil Woolf, who has died aged 92, was a nephew of Virginia and Leonard Woolf and the last person to have known Virginia Woolf personally, taking her tea... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-06-26 16:42:57 UTC ]
Bloomsbury’s digital director and publisher Stephanie Duncan has left the company after almost 23 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-25 18:10:45 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed a global two-book deal with American YA author Brigid Kemmerer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-24 21:35:35 UTC ]