A Guardian investigation shows there were whole months last year when not a single BAME person featured on the cover of our biggest-selling magazines. And when it comes to children’s magazines, the problem is even worse Women’s magazine editors have always understood the importance of a good... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has commissioned Lucy Worsley to write a "major" new biography of Queen Victoria to celebrate the 200th anniversary of her birth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Woolf has won the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize 2017 for an uncommissioned first biography for his proposed book Queen Victoria’s Freaks: The Performers at Buckingham Palace. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two books on suffragettes are on the shortlist for this year’s 'Slightly Foxed' Best First Biography Prize. Sophia, Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand (Bloomsbury), about Indian suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh, joins Lady Constance Lytton – Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Royal Collection Trust will publish a children's story written by the monarch when she was a young girl. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont has acquired Mel Foster and the Demon Butler, a middle grade adventure story set in Victorian London, by Julia Golding. Fiction publisher Stella Paskins acquired the world English rights from Caroline Walsh at David Higham Associates. The book, which is about an orphan who takes on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]