The Bodley Head has pre-empted a "landmark" account of human history by Oded Galor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-18 09:20:49 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has landed historian Tabitha Stanmore's debut, Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, after a six-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 12:33:10 UTC ]
The six-strong shortlist for the £25,000 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize has been revealed, including two titles from PRH imprint The Bodley Head. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-28 22:52:51 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has acquired two titles from German filmmaker and storyteller Werner Herzog, including a memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-18 19:49:03 UTC ]
The German film director has announced two new books: a memoir and The Twilight World, about a remarkable second world war officerWerner Herzog is writing a book about Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who took three decades to surrender after the end of the second world war.The esteemed German... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-18 12:56:08 UTC ]
The Bodley Head and the Financial Times have announced Carrie Jade Williams as the winner of their eighth annual essay prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 18:25:17 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has won an 11-publisher auction for the next book by Jenny Odell, author of the New York Times bestseller How To Do Nothing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-10 03:39:07 UTC ]
Judge famous for ruling against Boris Johnson will recount how ‘a little girl from North Yorkshire became the most senior judge in the UK’ Lady Hale, who presided over the momentous decision to rule Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament unlawful, is set to write her memoirs, of how “a little... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-04-23 14:06:04 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has signed the memoir of former Supreme Court president Lady Hale in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 15:33:30 UTC ]
Hodder Non-Fiction is making a series of changes to its editorial team: Anna Baty is joining from The Bodley Head as senior commissioning editor, while Zuleika’s Tom Perrin is taking on a consultant editor role and Huw Armstrong has been promoted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 09:00:03 UTC ]
The Bodley Head is to publish Lucy Foulkes’ corrective on mental illness after a six-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-06 23:10:14 UTC ]
Bodley Head will publish MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow’s take on "the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 02:47:32 UTC ]
The Bodley Head will publish What Do We Owe Each Other?: A New Social Contract for the 21st Century by Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-04 08:39:34 UTC ]
They turned down Ulysses and Animal Farm, but still shaped 20th‑century literatureAll publishing houses have archives, but for anyone interested in 20th-century literature the archive of Faber & Faber is a fabled treasure house. This is the firm that was, as Toby Faber puts it, “midwife at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-06-20 11:00:08 UTC ]
Anna Sophia Watts has left her editor role at Bodley Head to join thinktank Nesta, with Lauren Howard joining as editorial assistant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has snapped up Operation Information, revealing the full history of Britain’s covert propaganda operations overseas and within the UK from the 1940s to the present, in a seven-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bodley Head will publish Pulitzer Prize-winner Ian Urbina’s exposé of the criminal world of the high seas in October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bodley Head will publish a “game-changing” exploration of tackling racism, How To Be an Antiracist, by academic and writer Ibram X Kendi in August 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodley Head is publishing a new "important" non-fiction book by journalist Rachel Cooke, called The Reckoning. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has signed a book that exposes the "bias, hype, incompetence and fraud" in the peer-reviewed world by Dr Stuart Ritchie following a four-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]