Williams Collins has pre-empted a memoir by political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein uncovering his family’s devastating experiences of persecution during the Second World War. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-05 16:01:10 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald reexamines his father’s legacy in this fascinating blend of family memoir and moral reckoning. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-13 14:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has pre-empted a "unique" and "meticulously researched" family memoir, The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler, centred on a family business and spanning two centuries and two world wars. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-15 04:29:57 UTC ]
Thea Lenarduzzi has won this year's Fitzcarraldo Editions, Mahler and LeWitt Studios Essay Prize, for her "family memoir and social history" proposal Dandelions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 06:21:34 UTC ]
“Young Heroes of the Soviet Union,” by Alex Halberstadt, is a moving and often funny memoir about the author’s family and their history. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-11 16:29:22 UTC ]
Virago has signed lawyer Justine Cowan’s mix of family memoir and history of the Foundling Hospital – including the story of her own mother who grew up in its care. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-08 19:52:13 UTC ]
Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her “outstanding and highly unusual memoir” about her grandmother’s life in Ethiopia, The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History (4th Estate). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Press will publish the collected speeches of 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference as well as a family memoir, Scenes from the Heart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury’s senior commissioning editor Richard Atkinson, responsible for the publishing of books such as Polpo and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage series, has left the company and is focusing full-time on writing his family memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]