African Short Stories: Shortlist for 17th Caine Prize Announced

The winner of the £10,000 Caine Prize will be announced at an award ceremony and dinner at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, on July 4. The post African Short Stories: Shortlist for 17th Caine Prize Announced appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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Crossan and Pullman titles to contest the YA Book Prize 2018

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Android news from MWC 2018: 8 intriguing announcements you may have missed

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'A different story'

Philip Jones looks back on "maverick" Richard Johnson's nine years at the helm of Bonnier Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Lafaye to tell story of Scrooge's ghostly colleague

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Facebook Just Announced Another Music Licensing Deal

Facebook followed up on the music-licensing deals it announced last month by reaching an agreement for its first "multi-territorial" music license with online licensing processing and licensing solutions provider ICE Services. The social network inked similar pacts with Global Music Rights,... Continue reading at AdWeek

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Khaled Hosseini to release 'intensely moving' refugee story

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L.A. Times Book Prize finalists include Joyce Carol Oates and Ta-Nehisi Coates; John Rechy receives lifetime achievement award

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Awards for women, writers of colour, small presses – why are there so many books prizes?

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Bryant pens true story of 'heroic group' of gay wartime MPs

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Readers to Choose ‘Golden Man Booker Prize’: 50 Years of Winners

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Charco and Les Fugitives make 2018 RofC shortlist

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Google Debuts AMP Stories for Mobile Readers

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