Every year, we ask The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalists to reminisce about the first book they fell in love with. This year, we asked Finalists to reflect not just on the first story that stole their heart, but the story that seeded curiosity and empathy for the plight of others and opened […] The post 7 of the Year's Best Debut Novelists on Their First Literary Loves first appeared on Literary Hub. Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a debut psychological thriller The Girlfriend by BBC drama development executive Michelle Frances. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sceptre is publishing a prize-winning and bestselling Swedish debut novel by poet Tom Malmquist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Relative newcomers, shops reinvigorated by new owners and an institution still innovating in its 70th year are among the regional winners of this year’s British Book Industry Awards’ Independent Bookshop of the Year, sponsored by Gardners. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week: new Dana Spiotta, redeeming the "Kama Sutra," and the quest to find the true age of the universe. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Grab your TARDIS-blue pencil: the ‘Doctor Who Coloring Book’ is the #1 book in the country. Plus a cookbook by 'Sport Illustrated' swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen debuts at #1 in Hardcover Nonfiction, book 7 in Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet graphic novel series is #1 in Children’s Frontlist Nonfiction,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Polish publishing is featured in The Markets Global Summit at Frankfurt Book Fair 2016, the Market Forum at BEA 2016, and LBF's Market Focus in 2017. The post A Busy Year for Polish Publishing: BEA, FBM, LBF appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Soho closed a doubleheader; Balzer + Bray signed a new duology by Sara Raasch; and Greenwillow books signed Kimberley Derting. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK writer Tessa Hadley has won a Windham-Campbell Prize, worth $150,000 (£107,000). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador has acquired Pages For Her by Sylvia Brownrigg, a novel set 20 years on from Brownrigg’s first novel Pages for You. The new novel, set to be released in 2017, will tell the story of Flannery, a wife and mother, who is invited to a writers’ conference and embarks on an affair with the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'It is astonishing what you can do to women's bodies on a page," says author LS Hilton, cutting an imposing figure with her steely blue eyes, thick cream McQueen jumper and tight blonde ponytail. "You can torture them and flay them - but you can't let a woman actually enjoy her own body. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A record year for submissions has led to the highest ever number of regional shortlisted entries in this year’s British Book Industry Awards Independent Bookshop of the Year category, sponsored by Gardners Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Neil Griffiths is launching a new literary prize to honor the “small presses producing brilliant and brave literary fiction” in the UK and Ireland. The post For ‘a Vibrant Literary Life’: Neil Griffiths’ Small Press Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year was originally conceived in 1978 by Trevor Bounford and Bruce Robertson of The Diagram Group as a way to avoid boredom at the Frankfurt Book Fair. It was first awarded to Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Released on February 16, 'The Widow' by Fiona Barton came in at #2 on the iBooks bestsellers chart for the week ended February 21. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Helena Peacock, legal director for Penguin Random House UK and international, is retiring on 30th June after 23 years of service. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Award-winning novelist Neil Griffiths is launching a new literary prize to celebrate “small presses producing brilliant and brave literary fiction” in the UK and Ireland - in part because he believes the publishing business model is "terrible". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Umberto Eco, an Italian novelist and intellectual of worldwide renown who imbued his work with humor and scholarship and whose novel “The Name of the Rose” became a global phenomenon, has died, his American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirmed late Friday afternoon. He was 84. Eco was... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Pool founder Sam Baker; Robbie Millen and Arifa Akbar, literary editors of the Times and the Independent respectively; authors Viv Groskop and Sali Hughes; and booksellers from Waterstones, Foyles, W H Smith and Booka Bookshop will judge this year’s inaugural Books of the Year awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown is to publish White Highlands, a debut novel by John McGhie set in "one of the least known and darkest episodes in British colonial history". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Grammy Awards averaged 24.95 million viewers on CBS, off slightly from last year's telecast, according to Nielsen. The TV audience for the ceremony held at the Staples Center, which featured performances by Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Adele and Kendrick Lamar, was 1.5% below the 25.3 million... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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