Granta Books has signed a second "electric" novel from A K Blakemore, whose debut The Manningtree Witches won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021 and is a Waterstones Book of the Month for November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 16:54:33 UTC ]
Kazuo Ishiguro, Marcus Rashford and Paul McCartney are among the authors whose titles are shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 07:08:08 UTC ]
Dara McAnulty, Brit Bennett and Maggie O’Farrell are among the authors shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 title. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-02 04:03:38 UTC ]
Reni Eddo-Lodge's chart-topping Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race has been named as Waterstones Book of the Month for July, with 20% of sales set to be donated to charity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 20:19:30 UTC ]
Greta Thunberg has been named Author of the Year by Waterstones, while The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Ebury) was named 2019’s top book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-29 04:07:03 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood’s Booker-winning The Testaments (Vintage) is vying with offerings from Max Porter, Greta Thunberg and Candice Carty-Williams in a bumper shortlist for Waterstones Book of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-30 15:29:31 UTC ]
Books from writers including Man Booker-longlisted author Sally Rooney, former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton and Penguin editor Henry Eliot have made the shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Philip Pullman’s first instalment of the Book of Dust has been crowned the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Harry Potter script and a Beatrix Potter story are among the titles up for Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling and Beatrix Potter are among the six authors shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2016, chosen by Waterstones booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s book The Fox and the Star by aPenguin cover designer Coralie Bickford-Smith has beaten Harper Lee and Paula Hawkins to be crowned The Waterstones Book of the Year 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2015 has been revealed, featuring a list that would "not have been produced by an algorithm,” the chain's m.d. James Daunt has said. The eight-strong selection nominated by Waterstones booksellers across the UK encompasses four novels, three... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton has been named as the Waterstones Book of the Year. Burton's debut novel, published by Picador, beat a shortlist that also included Man Booker Prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Samuel Johnson Prize winner H is for Hawk. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Flanagan's Man Booker Prize winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North is among eight contenders for Waterstones Book of the Year 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker Prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Samuel Johnson Prize winner H is for Hawk are amongst the titles competing to win the Waterstones Book of the Year 2014. There are eight titles this year on the shortlist, voted for by Waterstones’ booksellers– three adult fiction,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stoner by late US author John Williams, first published 48 years ago, wins the Waterstones Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Forty-eight years after it was first published, Stoner (Vintage Classics) by the late US author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A graphic novel about a man's beard is up against works by Booker winner Julian Barnes and best-selling author Kate Atkinson for the Waterstones Book of the Year prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
A “beautifully designed” debut cookery book by London restaurateur Russell Norman has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel translated from French is among the six titles shortlisted for the inaugural... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]