At the Audio Publishers Association's annual Audie Awards, which marked a quarter century this year, 'The Only Plane in the Sky' took home the top award and Stephen King received a lifetime achievement as host Mo Rocca and others saluted the progress of the audiobook form over the past 25 years. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The Royal Society of Literature is adding the Encore Award, a £10,000 prize for the best second novel of the year, to its portfolio of literary awards and prizes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Linda Duncan McLaughlin has won the 2016 Goat Bursary created by author Joanna Cannon (pictured) and agent Sue Armstrong. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In honor of his body of work focusing on individual destiny in extreme situations, Manea is the first Romanian to win Guadalajara International Book Fair’s annual $150,000 award. The post Norman Manea Wins the Guadalajara Book Fair’s Romance Languages Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book that was slow to find a home has now achieved success: A.S. Patric's 'Black Rock White City' is the 2016 winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award. The post Debut Novel on Immigration Wins Australia’s Miles Franklin Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British writer Adrian Tchaikovsky has won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction for his novel Children of Time (Pan Macmillan). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author of Black Rock White City, which has won Australia’s premier literary prize, says he feels a bit of sunlight after many years of absolute obscurity Two years ago, Melbourne’s AS Patric couldn’t even get a rejection slip for his book, Black Rock White City. Not one of the big Australian... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tinder Press has acquired a story collection and debut novel from Lesley Nneka Arimah, winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent poetry publisher Nine Arches Press has been awarded a grant of £49,550 from Arts Council England to further develop its business, audiences and publications. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Librarians from Devon, Dorset, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Edinburgh are in the running for this year’s School Librarian of the Year Award, given by the School Library Association. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neil Gaiman and N K Jemisin were among the authors announced as winners at the 2016 Hugo Awards for science fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A driverless air taxi to carry you over traffic in congested urban centers, ordered at the push of a button from your smartphone, may sound like science fiction, but Airbus believes it’s much closer to reality than you think. So close, in fact, that it hopes to test such a vehicle by the end of... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As entertainment director for Hearst Magazines Digital Media, Nojan Aminosharei is responsible for wrangling celebrity talent for shoots across Hearst’s 21 digital brands, ranging from Cosmopolitan to Country Living to Esquire. Coming up with fresh ideas and pulling them off takes a lot of... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PEN International has released the longlist for its 2016 New Voices Award for young writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two titles published by Faber, one by James Shapiro and the other by Benjamin Markovits, have won the £10,000 James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Syria Speaks, which made headlines after it led to a honeymooning airline passenger being questioned under the Terrorism Act, sees surge of interestThe publisher of a book about Syrian culture that hit the headlines last week, when a British Muslim woman was detained after being seen reading it... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scottish Book Trust has launched an award that recognises outstanding contributions to Scottish children’s literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2016 British Book Design and Production Awards finalists have been revealed, with publisher Penguin leading the nominations with six titles on the shortlist, followed closely by Pan Macmillan (five), with strong showings from The Folio Society (four titles), Frances Lincoln and Little Tiger... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Masonic Charitable Foundation, a charity funded by the Freemasons, has awarded £40,000 to help organise tactile and audio-based "Touch to See" book clubs for older blind and partially-sighted people across the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has acquired a stand-alone fantasy novel, The Never King, by Jon Abbot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Peter James, Sharon Bolton and "Robert Galbraith" were among the authors honoured at the second annual Dead Good Reader Awards 2016 at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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