Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith and Philippe Sands are among the literary heavyweights leading Hay Festival Cartagena 2019's line-up in its "most ambitious year yet". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Prominent human rights lawyer Philippe Sands QC is to be the new president of English PEN, taking over from Maureen Freely. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (Fleet), Philippe Sands’ East West Street (W&N) and Naomi Alderman’s The Power (Viking) are among the books shortlisted across six categories for the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards, curated by booksellers and supported by National Book Tokens. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philippe Sands and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen have been chosen as joint winners of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate literary prize (worth £4,000). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charities Médecins Sans Frontières, SOS Méditerrannée and Women for Refugee Women each stand to receive "well over" £20,000 as the result of Philippe Sands' Baillie Gifford Prize donation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philippe Sands' East West Street (W&N), a personal account of the history of genocide and crimes against humanity, has won the £30,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Renowned human rights lawyer Philippe Sands tells Caroline Sanderson the extraordinary story of the coincidences he discovered while carrying out the research for his book, East West Street. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]