There are over 200 books published this spring alone by British writers of colour, and 400-plus when including writers of colour from around the globe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-09 04:13:16 UTC ]
Live literature organisation Speaking Volumes will launch a guide to British writers and illustrators of colour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Opening the prize to global competition has been good for its profile, good for US writers - and a problem for novelists here and from the CommonwealthTonight the five judges of the Man Booker prize will announce this year’s winner. It was also the votes of five judges that chose the winners at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bill Clegg, Anne Enright, Marlon James, Laila Lalami, Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Andrew O'Hagan, Marilynne Robinson, Anuradha Roy, Sunjeev Sahota, Anna Smaill, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara are this year's Man Booker "Dozen", longlisted for the £50,000 prize. There are five US authors on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Biteback Publishing will publish a biography of Cambridge spy Guy Burgess by Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert. Purvis, a former editor-in-chief and c.e.o. of ITN last month reported for BBC's "Newsnight" on the discovery of footage of Burgess giving a television interview in Canada. Hulbert, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiction Uncovered, the annual prize highlighting works by British writers, is to be renamed the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]