Photo credit: Nigel DaviesSunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award marks the 30th anniversary with one of it's most decorated shortlists to date:• Irish novelist Megan Nolan for her darkly funny debut novel Acts of Desperation;• US-based writer Anna Beecher for her novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2022-02-16 14:40:41 UTC ]
The London Library is releasing its second anthology featuring work from its Emerging Writers programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 01:29:13 UTC ]
The London Library's Emerging Writers Programme will run for a third year in 2021, including a new Virago Participation Bursary to support Black women and Black non-binary people overcoming financial barriers to accessing it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 12:47:07 UTC ]
The London Library has started offering e-book loans to its members for the first time in a partnership with OverDrive. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-28 00:23:57 UTC ]
The London Library has announced the 40 participants of its early career writing development programme, as the library plans its reopening for 6th July. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-25 01:17:13 UTC ]
The London Library has launched a new podcast series in which a leading writer or cultural figure will discuss the books that have shaped them with its director Philip Marshall. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-18 23:02:29 UTC ]
From meditations on the d/Deaf experience to short stories blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, from mixing the personal and political to a young woman uncover the truth about her family’s past – four outstanding writers have today been named on the shortlist for The Sunday... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-11-04 12:55:09 UTC ]
The London Library has joined forces with indie publisher Jacaranda for its #Twentyin2020 project, celebrating black British writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 11:44:25 UTC ]
The London Library has welcomed 38 authors onto its inaugural Emerging Writers Programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Library has launched the Emerging Writers Programme to support unpublished writers, with literary agency A M Heath one of the scheme's supporters. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Library says it has located a number of the actual books used by Bram Stoker in researching his novel Dracula. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Library, the 175-year-old members' library in St James Square, London, is working with Bloomsbury's public events series The Bloomsbury Institute to co-curate a number of events. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fêted for her auspicious debut, ‘Conversations With Friends,’ Dubliner Sally Rooney at 26 is tied with Zadie Smith (2001, ‘White Teeth’) for youngest winner of the Sunday Times/PFD prize for emerging authors from the UK and Ireland. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press celebrated its 20th anniversary at the London Library, a “particularly appropriate” venue, according to managing director Adam Freundenheim. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new collaboration between Pushkin Press and The London Library has seen series designer David Pearson cede his typographical territory in favour of an illustration-led approach. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press is partnering with literary institution The London Library to produce a series of "beautifully designed" books containing material from authors such as Lewis Carroll, E M Forster and Virginia Woolf. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Press publishing director Stuart Proffitt has won the London Library Life in Literature Award for his contribution to publishing, with the judges deeming him "the pre-eminent editor of non-fiction working in the UK today." The £10,000 prize is given each year by the London Library,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]