The Booker prize-winning author’s new novel Lessons is ‘a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime’Ian McEwan’s “most epic book to date”, moving from the end of the second world war to the current pandemic and exploring the impact of childhood... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-19 12:00:11 UTC ]
Ian McEwan’s “ambitious and mesmerising” new novel Lessons will be published by Jonathan Cape in September. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-19 02:10:47 UTC ]
The four-strong shortlist for this year's Laurel Prize for nature and eco-poetry has been announced, with two nominations for Jonathan Cape titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-26 07:25:12 UTC ]
This excellent cradle-to-grave biography of a much loved novelist who goes in and out of fashion captures her alarming habits and tormented love affairsIn 1971 the author Barbara Pym was at her day job at the International African Institute when she noticed “Mr C” laboriously attacking his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-04-08 06:30:07 UTC ]
For Christmas 1972, I was given a present that changed the way I viewed the world. It was a folder of facsimile documents called Tutankhamun & the Discovery of the Tomb. My family didn’t manage to visit the ‘Treasures of Tutankhamun’ exhibition at the British Museum that year, so my Jackdaw... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-27 01:02:55 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has acquired two new books by Katie Kitamura, including her "taut and electrifying" novel Intimacies, about an interpreter pulled into "explosive political fires". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 20:29:15 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has won a 10-publisher auction for Fire Rush, the “phenomenal” debut novel by Jacqueline Crooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 10:11:08 UTC ]
Vintage imprint Jonathan Cape will publish Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2015). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 16:16:38 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has triumphed in a nine-publisher auction for a “fly-on-the-padded-wall” debut from junior psychiatrist and comedy writer Benji Waterhouse. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-19 11:03:07 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has snapped up an “exquisite” memoir about the challenges facing gay men today from acclaimed poet and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlistee Seán Hewitt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 07:03:12 UTC ]
Booker prize founder and publisher of some of the greats of 20th-century fictionTom Maschler, publisher and managing director of Jonathan Cape and the architect of the Booker prize for fiction, has died aged 87. A glamorous, perma-tanned figure with aquiline features and unruly hair, who dressed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-10-16 17:49:02 UTC ]
Prize-winning writer Kapka Kassabova is moving to Jonathan Cape in a two-book deal, with first title, Elixir, exploring the human hunger for healing and a search for a cure. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-24 14:09:10 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has acquired Swedish musician Neneh Cherry’s memoir, A Thousand Threads, in a 14-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 11:56:22 UTC ]
Vintage imprint Jonathan Cape will publish Sapiens: A Graphic History, a "radical reworking" in graphic novel style of Yuval Noah Harari's bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-02 08:54:07 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has signed a “radical” in-depth exploration of the global water crisis by South African journalist Rosa Lyster. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-26 02:54:26 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has scooped an “exceptional” debut novel from journalist and former Waterstones bookseller Jo Hamya. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-21 17:27:41 UTC ]
Two books from Jonathan Cape are on the shortlist for the £10,000 RSL Encore Award for the best second novel of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-20 07:54:38 UTC ]
The author threatened to ditch his British publisher, and likened him to a vicar, after his ‘Anglo-Saxon’ expressions were cleaned upThe hard-drinking, hot-tempered American writer Ernest Hemingway was furious when he discovered that the language for the English edition of his latest book had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-29 07:05:47 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has pre-empted a “ground-breaking” study of global crises by political economist Jerome Roos, one of the most talked about titles ahead of the London Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-27 02:08:45 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape will publish an autobiographical novel by Martin Amis later this year, with the book described as his "most intimate and epic work to date". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-14 00:11:42 UTC ]