Actors Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Jemima Kirke and Joe Alwyn are to star in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel, Conversations with Friends (Faber.) Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-17 23:11:49 UTC ]
The BBC boost enjoyed by Sally Rooney’s Normal People helped Faber to post strong sales of both the young author’s titles, while Matt Haig’s books claimed three of the top six chart positions for Canongate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-04 22:44:47 UTC ]
The novel, which follows four young people in Ireland, is part of a two-book deal for the best-selling author of “Normal People” and “Conversations With Friends.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-12 14:00:10 UTC ]
As The Bookseller reports, UK publisher Faber has announced that they will be releasing the complete screenplays of Normal People, the popular BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel of the same name. Whether or not you understand on a larger level the reason anyone might buy and read a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-14 14:37:05 UTC ]
Faber is to release the complete screenplays of the television series "Normal People", based on Sally Rooney's novel of the same title. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-13 21:25:25 UTC ]
Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) has bounced back to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week across lockdown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 21:09:57 UTC ]
For a third week running, Joe Wicks' Wean in 15 (Bluebird) and Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) have topped the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold categories for the week ending 17th May. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 23:05:04 UTC ]
For the week ending 9th May, Sally Rooney’s Normal People punted into the Bookstat e-book number one, climbing one place to leapfrog Andrew Mayne’s The Girl Beneath the Sea. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-16 12:06:19 UTC ]
Costa award-winning love story of Connell and Marianne takes top slot from David Walliams’ bestselling children’s book SlimeSally Rooney’s Normal People has flown to the top of the UK’s book charts more than two years after it was published, thanks to the release of the TV adaptation starring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-05-13 15:44:19 UTC ]
Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) has soared six places up the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart to score the number one. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-05 17:09:49 UTC ]
Sally Rooney’s takeover of the world continues apace today with the announcement that the Irish literary phenom’s debut novel Conversations With Friends will be adapted into a twelve-part series for the BBC. Like the upcoming BBC/Hulu adaptation of Rooney’s 2019 juggernaut Normal People, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-25 18:39:10 UTC ]
Conversations with Friends will follow Rooney’s Normal People that will air in April The BBC has commissioned a 12-part series based on Sally Rooney’s hit debut novel Conversations with Friends in the hope that fans of the young Irish author will bring in younger audiences.The BBC is to show its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-25 10:19:05 UTC ]
Sally Rooney and Elizabeth Gilbert may not have new books coming out just yet, but we have some worthy alternatives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-12-23 13:00:00 UTC ]
It’s a confusing thing, being Irish. We’re European with none of the sophistication, and for a tiny island, we have an impressive lack of consistency. That said, we also have an impressive literary output. Our politics, social movements, and religions have born enough conflict to make a canon... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
From meditations on the d/Deaf experience to short stories blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, from mixing the personal and political to a young woman uncover the truth about her family’s past – four outstanding writers have today been named on the shortlist for The Sunday... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-11-04 12:55:09 UTC ]
As publishers vie to persuade us to pack their titles for the holidays, we chart the evolution of the ’beach read’Summer reads, beach reads, holiday reads … at this time of year, the publishing world works itself into a sweat trying to force its novels into our carry-on luggage, or over the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-07-14 07:00:23 UTC ]
Andrew Holgate reflects on Sally Rooney's meteoric—and well deserved—rise to the top, after second novel Normal People scooped the Book of the Year prize at the British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A day after winning two British Book Awards for Novel of the Year and the overall Book of the Year, Sally Rooney has claimed her first Mass Market Fiction number one. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The annual 'Nibbies,' as the British Book Awards are known, this year are led by the acclaimed Irish author, Sally Rooney, who calls herself 'astonishingly lucky.' The post British Book Awards’ Top 2019 Prize Goes to Ireland’s Sally Rooney appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Irish writer's "exceptional" novel beat Michelle Obama to the top prize at The British Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]