The Guardian was Sarah’s window to the world outside when she was undergoing cancer treatmentLast year, on 17 July, I was a 33-year-old woman living and working in Leicester. I’d moved here from Birmingham 15 years earlier, to study at Leicester University, and then never left. I love it here,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan have signed a contract to continue their Richard & Judy Book Club, in association with W H Smith, until 2019. The celebrity couple help to select eight titles—mainly authored by new and emerging talent—three times a year: for Spring, Summer and Autumn Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emma Healey’s début novel Elizabeth is Missing (Penguin) has been voted as the best title in Richard and Judy’s Spring 2015 Book Club. Readers voted for their favourite book from the book club’s eight Spring picks on the W H Smith website. The second most-voted-for title was The Miniaturist by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new non-fiction book club on Claudia Winkleman's weekly BBC Radio 2 "Arts Show" is to launch this autumn, as part of The Reading Agency partnership with the station. The book club follows on from the Radio 2 Book Club on Simon Mayo's show, and a children's writing competition called 500 Words... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
ITV daytime chat show Loose Women is today (March 24th) launching a new book club, with Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) picked as the first title. The book club, called Loose Books, will see a different Loose Women panellist pick a book to read each month, which will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
For his next reading challenge pick, Zuckerberg announced a much-lauded pro-vaccination book.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come out swinging in support of vaccination—and he wants his book club members to read all about it. Undaunted by the lukewarm reception to his first few picks,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jon Stewart announced plans Tuesday night to leave his perch on The Daily Show later this year. The shrieks and cries you heard coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn? That was the sound of publishing and media insiders realizing that their best avenue for jump-starting book sales and making... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cynthia Bond's novel "Ruby" is set in Texas and tells a fierce and poetic tale of a worldly, beautiful black woman, Ruby Bell, and her struggle not to be destroyed by her home community of Liberty Township. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faith-based films panel at Sundance; awards and honors; peaceful new book club; NIV celebrates 50 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since word first broke right after New Year’s day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg started a book club, Perseus Books Group has sold about 10,000 copies of the ebook edition of 'The End of Power' and more than 3,000 trade paperback copies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Show how much you know! Here's our quiz for January 9, 2015.What the heck happened this week? Research says that one of the best ways to solidify new information is to be tested on it. Here's a chance to bolster your knowledge of current events—and earn a special emoji badge. Read Full Story Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2015-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has set up a book club on the social networking site, attracting more than 120,000 likes in three days. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Facebook founder, who has over 30 million followers, has launched a new book club as part of a challenge to himself, for 2015, to read a new book every two weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oprah is great for women, but she's not talking to men. Isn't it time publishers and the media take men as seriously as readers as the men take themselves? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Armed with a new name, five employees and $5.3 million in financing, Wilmington-based e-Book subscription service Entitle is open for business this week. Founder Bryan Batten, who left a career in pharma sales to jump off the startup ledge, calls the service “a hybrid of Netflix and a book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sue Monk Kidd's "The Invention of Wings" comes out Jan. 7. The novel weaves together the stories of a slave girl and a slave owner's daughter. Like Kidd's best-selling "The Secret Life of Bees," the book is set in South Carolina. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
NBC's 'Today' show will be picking monthly titles for a book club, with Samantha Shannon's 'The Bone Season' serving as the first selection. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Today Show's monthly book club gives publishers new hope for Oprah-like success and features interactive elements like Twitter chats. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
US show "Today: is launching a new book club for the first time in more than ten years. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins c.e.o. Victoria Barnsley has said the idea of the bookshop as a book club, charging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]