Penguin Random House said that first-day sales for Michelle Obama's memoir "represent the largest single-day sales total for any book published in 2018" by the publisher, while Barnes & Noble said 'Becoming' had the biggest first week of sales at the chain so far this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Invoices totalling hundreds of dollars sit in a pile on Laura Nicholas-Grieve's coffee table, bills which tell the story of the not-so-hidden costs of becoming an author in New Zealand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has snapped up an "exquisite" novel and a short story collection about flawed masculinity from Benjamin Myers six weeks after he scooped the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his book published by Bluemoose Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A children's book published by a tiny independent publisher has beaten off competition from authors such as Malala Yousafzai and Gill Lewis to win the Little Rebels Children's Book Award for Radical Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and founder of the BuyMeOnce website Tara Button was a shopaholic until she fell in love with a Le Creuset pot. Now disposable is a dirty wordForget retail therapy. It’s so yesterday. Avoiding frequent visits to the shops is a better way to serenity, claims a book published this week,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The second book published by premium cycling brand Rapha Editions has scooped the 29th William Hill Sport Book of the Year for its “startlingly intimate portrait” of Tour de France trailblazer Tom Simpson . Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Schoolgirl Isabel Harris has had her book published after winning The Book People’s inaugural Bedtime Story Competition. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic has claimed two titles out of the five shortlisted for Oscar’s Book Prize, which honours the best book published for children under five years old. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sara Baume’s second novel is a powerful meditation on art, loneliness and finding one’s place in the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rupi Kaur, a Canadian poet, writer, and spoken-word artist, may only be 24 years old, with only one book published to date. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Film-maker Taika Waititi and Prime Minister John Key are among a dozen Kiwis who have shared their insights into mental health in a book published by Onslow College students. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
A children’s book published by Firefly Press, the Welsh independent publisher launched in 2013, has won this year’s Branford Boase Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Want to know when your favourite author has a new book published? When the awards are being dished out? What film adaptations are up-coming or get the low-down on festivals near you? Then check out our literary calendar for 2016Have we missed anything? Email us at [email protected]... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Even as luminaries rally to its support, the corporation’s urge to compete – over schedules, primetime, news – leave it too short of alliesIt’s easy, and often necessary, to defend the BBC. Armando Iannucci delivered a virtuoso such turn at the Guardian Edinburgh international TV conference last... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
YouTuber Alfie Deyes is to write two more books for Blink Publishing, including a sequel to his bestselling debut The Pointless Book. The sequel to The Pointless Book, which has sold more than 100,000 copies through Nielsen BookScan, will be published in April 2015. This will be followed by a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Prime minister gave News Corp boss full rundown of scheme before he announced policy to party roomTony Abbott gave Rupert Murdoch a full rundown on his planned paid parental leave scheme before announcing the policy in 2010, in a marked contrast with his decision not to consult the party room, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novelist who spent nine years trying to get her first book published is rewarded for her persistence with a £10,000 literary prize for original fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
In October Amazon launches Kindle MatchBook, an arrangement that lets you purchase the Kindle edition of books you've already bought from them in print for $2.99 or less. The agreement currently covers about 10,000 books from a variety of publishers, and the prices are valid for any book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book published by one-man band Prospect Books has won the prestigious André Simon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]