Nina Stibbe, Ruth Jones and Posy Simmonds are among the winners of 2020's Comedy Women in Print Prize (CWIP), shining a light on witty writing by women in the UK and Ireland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-14 10:20:33 UTC ]
Candice Carty-Williams, Nina Stibbe and Beth O'Leary are among the authors longlisted for this year's Comedy Women in Print Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-19 22:33:02 UTC ]
Viking has struck a two-book deal with Nina Stibbe, which will see the author tackle “the machinations of the contemporary world”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-18 08:41:29 UTC ]
Nina Stibbe has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with her “pitch-perfect romp” Reasons to be Cheerful (Viking). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nina Stibbe and Roddy Doyle have been nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, on a shortlist that is dominated by women. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marlon James, Bernardine Evaristo, Jonathan Coe and Nina Stibbe last night headlined Penguin General’s Spring 2019 showcase on the Strand. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Foyles will host a line-up of events this summer featuring authors Joe Hill, Nina Stibbe, Nick Hornby and the president of TED, Chris Anderson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Love, Nina will go out over five half-hour episodes in Fever Pitch writer’s first television outing to be based on Nina Stibbe’s award-winning bookHelena Bonham Carter is to star in writer Nick Hornby’s first TV drama – Love, Nina – based on the memoirs of a nanny who worked for some of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alexander McCall Smith has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, published by Birlinn imprint Polygon. This is the first time McCall Smith, the author of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series published by Little, Brown, has appeared on the comic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three debut novelists are in the running for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic novels. Writer Caitlin Moran, actress Helen Lederer and Nina Stibbe have all made the shortlist for the prize, alongside Alexander McCall Smith, Irvine Welsh and Joseph O'Neill. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s prize-winning Love, Nina (Penguin) will be shown as a five-part drama on BBC One. The Bookseller revealed in November last year that Hornby was adapting the book, which won the Non-fiction Book of the Year award at the Specsavers National Book Awards... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author of Fever Pitch is adapting a book of the same name based on the memoirs of Nina Stibble, a nanny who worked for some of London’s leading literary lightsThe author of Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby, is penning his first TV drama, based on the memoirs of a nanny who worked for some of the leading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]