Oneworld has acquired The Baghdad Clock by Iraqi author Shahad al Rawi, originally published in Arabic by Dar al-Hikma in 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
BBC presenter Jeremy Vine is confronted by Shanique Sheena Pearson, 22, in a road rage incident. The footage, posted by Vine on his Facebook page in August last year, shows Pearson shouting at him for cycling in the centre of the road in order to avoid car doors on a narrow Kensington street. On... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reviews director Louisa Ermelino recommends 'Going to the Dogs' by Erich Kastner, a novel originally published in 1931 about an overeducated and underemployed young man bemoaning the advance of technology in Berlin. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC looks back at the career of James ‘Jim’ Naughtie, as he stands down as a Today programme presenter after 21 years on Wednesday. Naughtie, who’s famous profanity slip-up has become renowned in broadcasting bloopers history, will become Radio 4 special correspondent and BBC Books editor... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tuskar Rock Press will publish I Love Dick, the autobiographical-novel by American writer Chris Kraus. The book was originally published in 1997 by Kraus’s own Semiotext(e) Press. This is the first time it will be available as a UK edition. I Love Dick merges fiction and memoir to tell the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press has acquired a “dark and disturbing” debut novel by Inge Schilperoord, originally published in the Netherlands. Commissioning editor Daniel Seton at Pushkin acquired world English rights to Tench from Podium, via Marleen Seegers at 2 Seas Agency. Tench tells the story of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arcadia Books has bought a thriller set in the world of Formula 1 racing, originally published by The Hanbury Agency’s White Glove programme Moreton Street Books. Driven by Toby Vintcent was the only work of fiction on the shortlist of the New Writer Award at the Cross British Sports Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pomegranate Europe Ltd will republish The Ultimate Alphabet Complete Edition by British artist and author, Mike Wilks, initially published in 1986. The book, which includes paintings depicting as many words as possible in 26 images corresponding to the alphabet, was originally published by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperFiction has signed two new deals with writers discovered through its digital-first HarperImpulse programme. Debbie Johnson and Carmel Harrington were both originally published by HarperImpulse, which digitally published romantic fiction. Johnson has seen success with Cold Feet at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of the greatest post-war Dutch novels, Gerard Reve's 'De Avonden' (or 'The Evenings'), which was originally published in 1947, is finally being translated into English. What took so long? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
A book about fear of vaccines, published in the UK by indie Fitzcarraldo Editions, has been chosen as the fourth book in Facebook’s A Year of Books reading group. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted the choice on the group’s page last night. On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has signed The Letter, a debut novel by Kathryn Hughes which hit number one on the Amazon Kindle chart as a self-published ebook. The Letter, which tells the story of two women whose lives become entwined when one discovers a letter that was written in 1939 but never sent, was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Children’s Books is launching a competition with children’s newspaper First News to promote a new "winter" edition of The Letter of the King by Tonke Dragt. Originally published in Dutch in 1962, The Letter for the King was published by Pushkin Children’s Books in an English... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, customers at the coffee chain can collect a Pick of the Week card at the store to download S.E. Hinton's book, originally published in 1975, on Apple's iBooks store. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Cameron + Company will be pouring martinis today, 3–4 p.m., at its booth (1223A) in the PGW section. The party also celebrates the 50th Anniversary Edition of The Drinking Man’s Diet, originally published in 1964 by the company’s founder, Robert Cameron. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titan Books's pulp imprint Hard Case Crime will be releasing two new editions of Stephen King's "Joyland," which it originally published in June 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones will feature Jamilia by Kyrgyzstan author Chingiz Aytmatov, originally published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A surprising success occurred in Italy last month, where the collected poems of Wislawa Szymborska landed at #2. Szymborska, who died February 1 at the age of 88, has a similar collection seeing “steady sales” in the U.S. from Mariner Books titled Poems New and Collected, originally published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Thu, 27/10/2011 - 14:15 Solaris Books has acquired the sequel to Helix by sci fi author Eric Brown. Editor-in-chief Jon Oliver acquired UK and US rights in Helix Wars in a deal with agent John Jarrold. The title will be delivered in spring 2012 with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 30/08/2011 - 08:00 Hamish Hamilton has acquired Home Boy by H M Naqvi, winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in January this year. Publishing director Simon Prosser bought British Commonwealth rights from Margaret... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]