Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments' is among 13 titles longlisted for this year's Booker Prize, despite being embargoed until September 10. It may even make the shortlist, announced on September 3, before it is even published. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood is longlisted for this year's £50,000 Booker Prize for her "terrifying and exhilarating" sequel The Testaments (Chatto & Windus) alongside fellow former winner Salman Rushdie, in the first year the prize has been sponsored by charitable foundation Crankstart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-23 23:49:31 UTC ]
More than 100 books. New novels from Margaret Atwood, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Colson Whitehead. Zadie Smith short stories. What more could you want? (Except to have them all RIGHT NOW.) The post Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2019 Book Preview appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-07-15 10:00:39 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood, Matt Haig and Adam Kay will all take part in the National Theatre's upcoming Authors of Stage series celebrating authors across the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 09:38:02 UTC ]
The audio edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale will be narrated by Elisabeth Moss, who starred as Offred in the television series, it has been announced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier imprint Blink will publish a collection of pieces from the Big Issue’s ‘Letter to My Younger Self’ feature in October, featuring the likes of Margaret Atwood and Arianna Huffington, with all royalties going towards the magazine’s charitable work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vintage and Index on Censorship are calling on independent bookshops to coordinate creative publication events for Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, the much-anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale in September, with a chance to win £750 to fund the best ideas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette is launching its first ever modern classics list for its international markets, featuring titles from Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Sarah Waters among others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vintage imprint Jonathan Cape will publish the graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale later this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood has revealed the cover for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood and Erin Morgenstern engaged Thursday morning in conversation in front of booksellers that created a buzz lasting all day, as booksellers eagerly anticipate the release this fall of both authors' next novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bologna Children's Book Fair's 50th year illustration exhibition has a session in New York this week, and Milan illustrators Anna and Elena Balbusso produce new 'Handmaid's Tale' artwork ahead of Margaret Atwood's sequel. The post Industry Notes: Bologna Round Table in New York; New... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, set 15 years after Offred's ambiguous final scene in the acclaimed 1985-published novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following two years in which Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian novel saw a skyrocketing in readership and new cultural relevance, both on television and in society at large, the author has announced 'The Testaments,' due September 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sequel to the Canadian author’s bestselling feminist dystopia will be published around the world in September 2019Margaret Atwood has announced a sequel to her bestselling feminist dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, titled The Testaments. It will be published in September 2019.“Dear Readers,”... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Feminist Book Fortnight draws to a close, we spoke to debut author Sophie Mackintosh, whose devastating dystopian novel The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton) has drawn comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paula Hawkins, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman and Robert Webb are among the authors donating thousands of books to Oxfam in a bid to boost sales in the charity's shops and raise money for its work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood, Evelyn Schlag and Jackie Morris have been named the recipients of this year’s Hay Festival Medals. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood, David Walliams and Jacqueline Wilson are amongst those headlining the Hay Festival, which is set to respond to the world's “urgent need of empathy”, according to organisers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Topped by Margaret Atwood, the UK’s Top 10 bestselling authors of literary fiction last year features only one male writer, Haruki MurakamiFlying in the face of Norman Mailer’s infamous comment that “a good novelist can do without everything but the remnant of his balls”, Haruki Murakami was the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]