John Murray is to publish Thing Explainer, the follow-up to Randall Munroe’s What If? In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, Munroe uses a series of diagrams to show how a variety of things, from a nuclear bomb to a biro, work. He will use just the drawings and a vocabulary of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A fitting salute to the Guardian's late parliamentary sketch writerI thought it unnecessary, and perhaps ethically dubious, to cover this book when its first edition came out in 2012; but now, following Simon Hoggart's death earlier this month, and the addition of a selection from a year's worth... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Favorites among year's six Booker Prize finalists — which "shows the English language novel to be a form of world literature" — are Jim Crace and Eleanor Catton. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press will shortly launch a consultation over jobs in its English Language... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Razorbill, the teenage imprint of Penguin Children's, has done the first English language... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 27/10/2011 - 09:00 The Publishers Association's international conference will focus on issues such as export sales and the growth of the English language, with speakers to include Barnes and Noble vice-president of digital content Theresa... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]