Picador will release Bridget Jones's Diary (And Other Writing) in February 2021, a new edition of the novel with more than 100 pages of extra material from author Helen Fielding. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 05:25:26 UTC ]
Picador has won a four-way auction for 10 books from Jamaica Kincaid, hailed by the publisher as “one of our greatest living writers”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-27 02:18:31 UTC ]
Picador has scooped a history of the Sackler dynasty from Say Nothing (William Collins) author Patrick Radden Keefe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 11:50:12 UTC ]
Picador has bagged a “shocking, enlightening and engaging” social and political history of dance music in the UK by journalist and film-maker Ed Gillett. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-09 10:32:37 UTC ]
Picador has won a six-publisher auction for Jackie Polzin's “irresistible” debut Brood, a novel about grief, motherhood and chickens. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-19 19:47:31 UTC ]
Picador has snapped up Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander, billed as the “funniest novel of the 2020s” and looking at identity, inheritance and cannibalism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-10 18:52:42 UTC ]
Picador has picked up the first novel in eight years from award-winning Irish author Keith Ridgway. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 11:52:26 UTC ]
Picador has snapped up a new collection of poetry from 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize winner Raymond Antrobus in a multi-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 16:59:05 UTC ]
Picador Books' commissioning editor Kishani Widyaratna steps up to the plate for My Job in Five. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-21 23:32:24 UTC ]
Picador has triumphed in a six-way auction for I Heard What You Said by Jeffrey Boakye, a “smart and witty” look at racism in British schools. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-09 18:10:33 UTC ]
Picador has pre-empted an investigation into water stress, billed as "the next big climate crisis", by environmental journalist Tim Smedley. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 18:18:39 UTC ]
Picador has scooped the “intoxicating” new novel from Room writer Emma Donoghue, telling the story of nurses and doctors working on the medical front line of 1918's great flu epidemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-27 04:39:36 UTC ]
Two promotions are to take effect at Scribe UK as editor-at-large Philip Gwyn Jones steps down next month to take up the role of Picador publisher. Sarah Braybrooke is set to become publisher and managing director, while Molly Slight will be editorial director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-09 05:27:30 UTC ]
Picador has triumphed in a multi-publisher auction for Kim Hye-jin’s Korean bestseller Concerning My Daughter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 12:50:05 UTC ]
Pan Mac has appointed Philip Gwyn Jones as Picador’s new publisher following Paul Baggaley’s move to Bloomsbury. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-26 04:34:01 UTC ]
Picador is publishing The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History by Irish Book Award-winner John Connell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-16 17:12:56 UTC ]
Picador commissioning editor Kishani Widyaratna (pictured) and Influx Press co-founder Kit Caless have launched a fundraiser for people in the publishing industry to donate money to the Trussell Trust with nearly £4,000 raised within five hours. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-16 19:29:32 UTC ]
Picador has announced "with great sadness" news of the death of Clive James, who passed away peacefully at home on Sunday 24th November after a long illness, aged 80. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-27 02:27:11 UTC ]
Staff from Penguin Random House, Kogan Page and Picador are among the professionals taking part in the British Council's International Publishing Fellowship Programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 13:29:38 UTC ]
In a coup for Bloomsbury, Paul Baggaley is to leave Pan Macmillan after 11 years as Picador publisher to take up the post of Bloomsbury editor-in-chief for adult consumer publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 10:00:10 UTC ]