Monique Roffey, the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, on the lit-boom that’s happening on the Caribbean islandLast week, Trinidadian writer Lisa Allen-Agostini’s novel The Bread the Devil Knead landed a coveted spot on the Women’s prize shortlist. As a fellow Trinidadian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-03 13:03:34 UTC ]
Amazon has established a programme to donate Kindle e-readers, ebooks and Fire tablets to readers in developing nations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tony Read leaves a legacy of improving educational facilities in a number of developing countries, writes Amanda Buchan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Elsevier's not-for-profit Elsevier Foundation has committed an annual contribution of $1m to a series of new programmes to run through to 2018, including one to encourage diversity in science, technology and medicine and another to promote science research in developing countries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers need to work more closely with academic libraries in developing countries, a report by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]