David Walliams and Tony Ross' The World's Worst Parents (HarperCollins) zipped upwards 11 places to the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top spot, as Mrs Hinch's memoir This is Me (Michael Joseph), due to be released in October, swept straight to the top of Most-Sold: Non-Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-08 08:45:20 UTC ]
Virago has acquired I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown in an eight-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 21:39:52 UTC ]
Viking has pre-empted a “remarkable” memoir by lawyer Qian Julie Wang about her childhood spent in severe poverty as an undocumented Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 18:57:02 UTC ]
The dubious genre of Trump tell-all memoirs has a new member: Melania & Me, written by a previous advisor to Melania Trump, which will be published by the Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books on September 1. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, once a confidante of the First Lady, fell out with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-07 18:28:06 UTC ]
Michele Harper’s memoir could not be more timely. Also, if you think your job is stressful, take a walk in this author’s white coat. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-07-07 11:16:04 UTC ]
TV presenter Phillip Schofield has revealed he is publishing his autobiography with Michael Joseph this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-07 10:04:39 UTC ]
A memoir from a Twitter celebrity doesn’t name names, but it does provide an entertaining back story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-07-07 09:00:09 UTC ]
It has been a TV film, a play and now the chef's memoir has been adapted to help a local theatre. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2020-07-06 23:02:05 UTC ]
Crawford’s memoir looks back at her own assault at a prestigious boarding school. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-07-05 08:02:09 UTC ]
“Surely some revelation is at hand.” ¤ A MEMOIR BY the journalist and sportswriter Simon Kuper appeared in the Financial Times in late July last year. It was about Kuper’s time at Oxford from the late 1980s onward, when he overlapped with Boris Johnson and Rory Stewart at Balliol College. Young... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-07-02 13:00:48 UTC ]
Michael Dirda is taking a vacation next month, and he’s already getting his to-be-read pile in order. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-07-01 16:17:23 UTC ]
“Becoming Duchess Goldblatt” is a memoir by the writer behind a beloved fictional character whose fans include Lyle Lovett and Celeste Ng. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-07-01 14:20:37 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster is to publish the memoir of renowned actor Sir Patrick Stewart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-01 10:22:58 UTC ]
A New York state judge has temporarily blocked Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster from "publishing, printing or distributing" her memoir Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's most Dangerous Man. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-30 20:33:21 UTC ]
Rock star Lenny Kravitz has written Let Love Rule, a memoir covering the first 25 years of his life, to be published by Sphere in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-30 18:47:37 UTC ]
The 80-year-old Sci-Fi icon's book will cover everything from "Star Trek" to his work on "American Dad." Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-06-30 18:18:47 UTC ]
The Trump family has filed a new lawsuit in the US to block the publication of Mary Trump's forthcoming exposé. It comes after Queen's County Surrogate Court dismissed the first motion on 23rd June. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 21:41:26 UTC ]
Robert Trump takes his bid to stop publication of Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough to the New York supreme courtDonald Trump’s brother is making a second attempt to block publication of the much-anticipated book by their niece Mary Trump, about “the damaged man who currently occupies the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-29 11:28:44 UTC ]
NEAL POLLACK, known to his fans as “The Greatest Living American Writer,” has had many incarnations in his literary life, from novelist to mystery writer to prolific memoirist. First, in his 2008 memoir Alternadad, Pollack reflects on his recent fatherhood and its incompatibility with his grumpy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-06-28 15:00:57 UTC ]
HQ has acquired a memoir by the co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party Catherine Mayer and her mother Anne Mayer Bird, written after they were both widowed within weeks of each other just before the Covid-19 lockdown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-28 14:16:03 UTC ]