Penguin Random House is printing 40,000 paperbacks of Ali Smith’s How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton) following its triumph at the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Smith was named the 20th winner of the prize last night at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following Joseph Andras’s surprise decision to turn down the Goncourt first novel prize, it’s time to weigh up the pros and cons of rejecting a literary awardTwo days after Joseph Andras’s De Nos Frères Blessés (which had not been on the shortlist of four) was astonishingly announced as the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magnus McFarlane-Barrow’s The Shed that Fed a Million Children (William Collins) and Alison Mitchell’s The One O’clock Miracle, illustrated by Catalina Echeverri (The Good Book Company), are the winners of the Speaking Volumes Book Awards 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At today’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, two bookstores will be presented with the 2016 WNBA Pannell Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MPA recognizes the year's best work by "independent" magazine media brands at the inaugural event in San Francisco. The post Imagination Award Winners Revealed at IMAG Conference appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winners of the 2016 Audie Awards have been announced, and include Paula Hawkins's 'The Girl on the Train,' read by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, and India Fisher, for Audiobook of the Year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction is opening its first-ever pop-up "book bar" at Waterstones’ new Tottenham Court Road store from Monday 16th May. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The US Authors Guild’s appeal against the earlier ruling that allows the tech giant to scan millions of books under ‘fair use’ has been rejected by the Supreme CourtA long-running face-off between the US Authors Guild and Google over the search engine’s scanning of millions of books was brought... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The novelist and the 'New Yorker' staff writer take home the prizes for fiction and biography respectively at the centennial awards ceremony. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The decision ends one of the publishing industry's defining legal dramas of the digital age. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to Refinery29, differentiation has been a guiding principle since it launched in 2005, initially as a showcase for independent fashion vendors in Brooklyn. Now as it expands more aggressively into Europe -- it opened up its U.K. operations late last year and is currently eyeing Germany... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer and film-maker Hannah Rothschild is the only British author to have made the 2016 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, released tonight (11th April). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Heaven for book nerds! The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is underway at the USC campus this weekend, where more than 500 authors are reading, discussing, signing, and living and breathing books. The lineup includes former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, "Top... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the winners of the third annual Cartoonist Studio Prize. The winners were selected by Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois; the faculty and students at the Center for Cartoon Studies, represented by CCS Fellow Noah Van... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2016-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Illustrator Rotraut Susanne Berner and writer Cao Wenxuan are among winners of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards at Bologna Children's Book Fair. The post At Bologna: Winners Named in the Hans Christian Andersen and Asahi Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ernest Hecht set up Souvenir Press from his bedroom in 1951. Now, following the death of Lord Weidenfeld, he is the last of the group of remarkable Jewish émigrés who transformed postwar British publishingA 65th birthday is a milestone but – now the official retirement age has been abolished –... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marina Lewycka, Paul Murray and John O'Farrell are among the authors vying for an award celebrating the year's funniest novels. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alex Andreou has won the inaugural Jane Grigson Trust Award for The Magic Bayleaf (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The longlist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 has been revealed, including two Nobel Prize winners, two previous finalists and two debut authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus has acquired a debut novel, the winner of the Mslexia Women’s Novel Competition 2015. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Supreme Court in America is not going to take up Apple's appeal of the ebook price fixing ruling, effectively bringing to a close the "one of the most contentious legal dramas in modern publishing history". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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