A scientist’s career in communion with trees

Suzanne Simard recalls her life and work, which transformed how we understand forests. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

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Lantana and Peepal Tree make £10k independent press prize shortlist

The Clarissa Luard Award for Independent Publishers has been revealed with Lantana Publishing, Little Toller Books, Peepal Tree Press and Penned in the Margins all in the running for the £10,000 prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Trees’ Takes Root in France, Germany

A few weeks ahead of the release of Peter Wohlleben’s The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World, his first title, The Hidden Life of Trees, was the #1 nonfiction book in France in August and in third place in his native Germany. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookstores Are Booming. Bookselling As a Second Career Is Too.

A number of the nation's newest bookmongers have either transitioned out of highly lucrative careers or intend to do so. These are their stories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Goodsill options The Lie Tree for film and TV

US film and TV producer Louise Goodsill has optioned Frances Hardinge's award-winning novel The Lie Tree (Pan Macmillan Children’s Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S and HC celebrate Philippa Gregory's 30-year career

Publishers HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster came together to celebrate Philippa Gregory’s 30 years as a published author at the Ivy Club in Soho, with guests including HRH Princess Michael of Kent. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Careers Website Ladders Inc. Surveys Workplace Millennials

Heidi N. Moore has been in the journalism game for 20 years now. She started out in the spring of 1997 as an editorial assistant at Hearst Magazines and, over the years since, has occupied a number of impressive positions including Wall Street Journal reporter, Marketplace Radio New York bureau... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Octopus mixes it up with Fever-Tree cocktail book

Mitchell Beazley is publishing a book of 100 cocktail recipes in collaboration with mixers brand Fever-Tree. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Débutante Salam looks to blossom with Fig Tree

Fig Tree has snapped up UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to literary début Central by Anbara Salam after a three-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury launches health and wellness imprint Green Tree

Bloomsbury Publishing has launched Green Tree, an imprint dedicated to health and wellness publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple Tree Yard trailer and tie-in edition released

Faber has re-issued Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty with a new jacket to tie-in with the upcoming BBC adaptation starting Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viv Groskop's literary self-help memoir to Fig Tree

Viv Groskop's "literary self-help memoir" inspired by the Russian classics has been acquired at auction by Penguin General imprint Fig Tree. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Plotting a career

David Walliams says writing children's books is "definitely the thing that gives me most pleasure". Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anna Kendrick book: Her career and the rise of 'Pitch Perfect'

Anna Kendrick's new memoir, 'Scrappy Little Nobody,' was released on Nov. 15. One of the actress's most famous roles is as the protagonist in the 'Pitch' films, which became an unexpected hit. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wiley’s Philip Carpenter Looks Back on a Career in Academic Publishing

'The best thing any leader can do is simply to listen,' outgoing Wiley research executive vice-president Philip Carpenter says as he reflects on his academic publishing career. The post Wiley’s Philip Carpenter Looks Back on a Career in Academic Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canadian Indie Could Have Unexpected Hit with New Book on Trees

A book that has topped Germany's bestseller list for the past year is poised to be a North American bestseller for the Canadian small press, Greystone Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: Jeff Giles: Following a Different Career Path, in a New Setting

Long before Jeff Giles wrote a word of his debut YA novel, The Edge of Everything (Bloomsbury, Jan. 2017), he had felt firsthand the passion YA readers have for their favorite books and authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pluto is defying scientists' expectations in so many ways

Ask Alan Stern to name the most surprising thing learned from NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, and he'll tell you to rephrase the question. “A better question would be, ‘What isn't puzzling or mysterious?’ Because that's a much shorter list,” said Stern, the planetary scientist in charge of... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tree planting celebrates the life of 'literary icon' Ion Trewin

The life and work of Ion Trewin, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, was celebrated last weekend with a ceremonial tree planting at the Woodland Trust’s Reffley Wood in King’s Lynn. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Lie Tree sales up over 350% since Costa win

Sales of Frances Hardinge’s YA novel The Lie Tree (Macmillan Children’s Books) have increased 353% in volume terms since winning the Costa Book of the Year, according to Nielsen BookScan data. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Equinox President's New Venture Will Help Young People Achieve Career Goals

Sarah Robb O'Hagan's startup aims to undo complacency created by participation trophies and help people reach their full career potential.Sarah Robb O'Hagan, the president of Equinox Holdings, is leaving the company to create a curriculum that she hopes will teach other people to be successful.... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2016-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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