This week: Ian McEwan's new novel, which is narrated by an unborn baby, plus novels from Ann Patchett and Alan Moore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The weekend's reviews of Ian McEwan's latest novel Nutshell (Jonathan Cape), out on Thursday (1st September), have applauded the boldness of its central conceit, which sees a foetus akin to a modern-day Hamlet narrate the story of his father's murder from within the womb. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian McEwan, Lionel Shriver and Jonathan Safran Foer are among the prize-winning novelists confirmed for the 67th The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, after the final line-up was formally announced today (13th August). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Ian McEwan and BBC journalist Kirsty Wark make the longlist for the world's richest literary prize, the International Impac Dublin Literary Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been a good couple of years for Matt Haig and he credits this success to stopping trying to be Ian McEwan: “It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about, without having to pass a test or look super... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claire Fuller has won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015 for her novel Our Endless Numbered Days (Fig Tree). Our Endless Numbered Days was described by chair of the judges Louise Doughty as "both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, new Ian McEwan, new Joseph O'Neill, and the stunning debut novel, "A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian McEwan, whose forthcoming novel The Children Act (Jonathan Cape) will look at the dilemma of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher adept at balancing the demands of literature and commerce, and a notable writer on artIn his prime, with his coloured shirts, red braces, bright bow ties and macho cigars there were few more flamboyant London publishers than Tom Rosenthal, who has died aged 78. But the extravagant top... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 17/11/2011 - 06:45 Full Circle Editions is to publish Body of Work, celebrating 40 years of the University of East Anglia writing course, associated with authors such as Rose Tremain and Ian McEwan, on 1st December. Edited by Giles Foden, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Wed, 13/04/2011 - 08:47 ?Debut novelists Manu Joseph and Sam Leith have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The prize, now in its 12th year, celebrates the novel of the last 12 months that has best captured the comic spirit of P G Wodehouse, and was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]