The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award is given annually to the best work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author of 35 or under. Here at the British Council, we're proud to work with the Prize to support the selected writers early in their... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2023-02-13 14:40:41 UTC ]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elif Shafak and Max Porter are among the authors and activists headlining English PEN’s centenary celebrations at the Southbank Centre this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-20 20:24:24 UTC ]
Laura Cumming, Max Porter and Lucy Ellmann have been longlisted for this year's £10,000 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, rewarding fiction, non-fiction or poetry – which best evokes the spirit of a place. The RSL is promoting the list on social media this afternoon, showcasing each... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-26 04:38:34 UTC ]
Annual literary festival The Laugharne Weekend has been saved thanks to a crowdfunding appeal and assistance from the Welsh Assembly, with this year's festival boasting a packed line-up featuring authors such as Max Porter and Eimear McBride. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 20:52:10 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood’s Booker-winning The Testaments (Vintage) is vying with offerings from Max Porter, Greta Thunberg and Candice Carty-Williams in a bumper shortlist for Waterstones Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-30 15:29:31 UTC ]
Bookshops have revealed their favourite books of 2019 with books by Michelle Obama, Max Porter and Greta Thunberg among the shortlisted titles for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 12:48:18 UTC ]
How to follow up a bookselling sensation like Grief is the Thing with Feathers? This was the key question facing Katie Hall, Rachel Alexander and Kate Burton at Faber for the publication of Max Porter’s second novel, Lanny. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Max Porter’s second book Lanny (Faber) has been optioned by BBC Films, actress Rachel Weisz and The Bureau production company. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Max Porter’s follow-up to his heralded début is an equally ambitious novel centring on small-town Britain. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
June Sarpong, Sophie Mackintosh, Anton du Beke and Max Porter are some of the authors preparing to take part in this year's Bookshop Day on Saturday 6th October, according to The Booksellers Association, whose "unmissable" line-up also has children running bookshops, alongside poetry karaoke,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has acquired Lanny, the "devastating" second novel from Granta editorial director Max Porter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Manuscripts from Max Porter, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Candice Carty-Williams are among those agents are taking to London Book Fair (LBF) next month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish actor Cillian Murphy is to star in a new production based on Max Porter's debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stories from award-winning writers including Jeanette Winterson, Max Porter and Sarah Perry are to feature in a new collection of ghost stories from English Heritage and September Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Max Porter has won the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award 2016 for his "extraordinary" debut Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta editorial director Max Porter is among three debut authors shortlisted for The Sunday Times/ Peters Fraser and Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaigns for Richard Dawkins, Max Porter and Chris Packham are among the winners of the Book Marketing Society awards for the May-August 2016 season. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter has won the 10th International Dylan Thomas Prize, in partnership with Swansea University. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books by Granta's Max Porter, Sunjeev Sahota and Andrew McMillan have been shortlisted for the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Max Porter's debut Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Faber), Man Booker winner A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld) by Marlon James and Elena Ferrante's Neopolitan quartet (Europa) are among the titles highlighted by publishers as books that made their year, or that they wish they had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]