Take a look at previous What We’re Reading blogs for more reading inspiration. Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared HoseinI'm thoroughly enjoying Hungry Ghosts, the debut novel by Kevin Jared Hosein, who won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018, and whom I had the pleasure of hearing read at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2023-06-01 06:19:41 UTC ]
World Literature Today Announces 2023 Student Translation Prize Winners News and Events [email protected] Tue, 05/30/2023 - 09:42 Katie Kassam and Vala Thorodds, winners of the 2023 Student Translation PrizesWorld Literature Today, the University... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-05-30 14:42:03 UTC ]
Take a look at previous What We’re Reading blogs for more reading inspiration. Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared HoseinI'm thoroughly enjoying Hungry Ghosts, the debut novel by Kevin Jared Hosein, who won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018, and whom I had the pleasure of hearing read at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2023-05-25 16:57:18 UTC ]
The novelist on his new collection of journalism, why he regrets criticising Sally Rooney and how he’s never shaken off the influence of JG Ballard“I’ll see your eidolon next Tuesday,” writes Will Self, 61, when I email to arrange a video call to discuss his new collection of journalism, Why... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-11-26 18:00:32 UTC ]
The former children’s laureate shares her sometimes enraging story of rejection, determination and resilienceAt the beginning of Malorie Blackman’s engrossing and often shocking memoir, the former children’s laureate asks: “Why am I an author?” What she goes on to tell us certainly shows how she... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-10-19 06:30:17 UTC ]
The marketing and publicity team behind Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder Press) have unfurled a living billboard in south London, as part of their summer reading campaign. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-17 10:34:54 UTC ]
Waterstones Children's Laureate Cresside Cowell and the Duchess of Cornwall have visited a school in Wandsworth, south London, to open a "life-changing" library. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-21 16:23:10 UTC ]
Publisher says it hopes to help the #ReadtheOnePercent pop-up store in south London ‘smash its target’ of £30,000, which it is crowdfunding in order to become permanentPenguin Random House has pledged £15,000 to south London’s #ReadtheOnePercent bookshop, which only stocks children’s books with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
OWN IT! has acquired Reflections of Me, an art and poetry book by 26-year-old emerging artist Kirsty Latoya, from South London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The owner of Tales on Moon Lane, Tamara Macfarlane, will open a second bookshop in South London in April. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital publisher Bookouture has bought three crime thrillers from an NHS psychologist set in the “grimy backstreets of South London”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Blake Books is publishing Chloe Ayling, a 20-year-old model from South London who made headlines this summer after she was allegedly lured to Italy for a fake photoshoot, then drugged and kidnapped. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sheila O’Reilly is to join Village Books in Dulwich, south London, as its events manager, just months after departing its local rival, fellow indie Dulwich Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to a recent BBC report, some 15,000 volunteers have been recruited to run UK libraries, the paid staffers of which have been laid off. A standoff in south London is throwing the situation into sharp relief. The post ‘Occupy Carnegie’: The UK’s Fast-Growing Library Crisis appeared first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rowman & Littlefield International (RLI), launched in 2013 as an affiliate of long-established US academic indie Rowman & Littlefield (R&L), has been quick off the starting blocks. From publishing two titles in its launch year, it will bring out 90 in 2015; over 50 series have been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
A library in south London has been hit by a fire, with more than 100 firefighters tackling the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 15/08/2011 - 15:17 The Way With Words festival is celebrating its 20th year by launching a new family arts and books event in south London this October. Word Up! will take place in South Dulwich at the Alleyn's School theatre space from 22-24th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]