The novelist Robert Harris was right to call the BBC’s lack of a books show a ‘disgrace’. There’s plenty the corporation could do to make a popular literary programme on TVWith injury, there is always a little insult. When a BBC spokesperson, responding to Robert Harris’s complaints at the Costa... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books for children and young adults are top of the league, bagging seven of this year’s top 10, but non-fiction has endured another annus horribilisSee the chart in fullAt long last, kids ruled in 2014. Books aimed at them have often figured in the top 10 of the all-year sales chart for printed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crime novels The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm, written under the author’s pseudonym, to form the basis of new dramaThe BBC will adapt the crime novels written by JK Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, its second collaboration with the Harry Potter author.The Cuckoo’s Calling, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of The Gruffalo earned more than JK Rowling and Dan Brown in UK, making her the fourth biggest-selling writer in British historyA dancing chorus of giants and snails, witches and Gruffalos have propelled Julia Donaldson into uncharted territory, as the former childrens laureate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling's crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith will eventually outnumber her Harry Potter books, she reveals. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Silkworm, written as Robert Galbraith, was advertised with long delivery delays, but web retailer appears to have backed down· Review: The Silkworm by JK Rowling as Robert Galbraith· Digested read: The Silkworm by Robert GalbraithAmazon.com appears to have bowed to consumer pressure and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling's publisher is laying off some employees amid a dispute with the industry's biggest book seller. Hachette Book Group cites a "changing marketplace" for layoffs that will affect less than... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Row between world's largest distributor of books and publisher over ebook royalties shows no sign of being resolvedAmazon has advised readers to buy from other retailers after breaking its silence over a high-profile dispute with the publisher Hachette, which has drawn in the British authors Ian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Director Alfonso Cuaron is deep in talks to direct a new film based on JK Rowling's Fantastic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, Jeanette Winterson and tens of other authors have signed a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reports from the UK suggest that JK Rowling has committed to a seven-book series, although her American publisher says the story is 'without foundation.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reports from the UK suggest that JK Rowling has committed to a seven-book series, although her American publisher says the story is 'without foundation.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling's "secret" crime novel tops book charts after it is revealed she wrote it under a pseudonym. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling has secretly written a crime novel under the guise of male debut writer Robert Galbraith. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling's novel, The Casual Vacancy, suffers a formatting error in the US making it near-impossible to read on some e-readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony unveils a Harry Potter-based book, part-written by JK Rowling, as the first Wonderbook title for its Playstation console. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sometime ago, I pledged to wait on reading the Harry Potter series until it came out as ebooks. I was ready and willing for October's planned debut on Google Books, but that was cancelled last minute. What happened instead mindboggles. In late March, author JK Rowling opened the Pottermore Shop... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling's first book for adults will be a "blackly comic" novel set in an idyllic English town where all is not what it seems, her publisher says. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]