A television adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ Fungus the Bogeyman will be screened on Sky 1 next Christmas. Sky commissioned Imaginarium Studios, which will work in partnership with Double Negative's TV department, to make the series. The four 60-minute episodes will be written by Tom MacRae and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, writer Ali Smith, and historian and novelist Marina Warner are among those named in the New Year Honours 2015. Duffy is made a Dame for services to poetry, while Warner, whose Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (Oxford University Press) was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Ali Smith has won the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for "boldly original" fiction. Smith won the £10,000 award, now in its second year, for How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton), the two-part novel which lost out to Richard Flanagan on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thank you, thank you, to commenter DialMforMurdo for pointing to this brilliantly funny deconstruction of what follows, and precedes, that moment when BBC's News At Ten's presenters say: "Now here's the news where you are."Sit back and enjoy this three-minute skit by James Robertson, novelist,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has signed a new novel from Dave Eggers, to be released on 10th October. Eggers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton will publish a new short story by Zadie Smith later this year.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has signed up a novel from South American writer Daniel Galera, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin has acquired the first novel in six years from US author Dave Eggers. Hamish Hamilton... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has acquired a novel by French author Eric Reinhardt about a doomed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]