Novelist Ali Smith has won the Goldsmiths Prize, awarded for "boldly original" fiction. Smith won the £10,000 award, now in its second year, for How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton), the two-part novel which lost out to Richard Flanagan on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sue Conley and Peggy Smith, authors of "Cowgirl Creamery Cooks" (Chronicle Books, 9781452111636) will appear on NPR’s "Morning Edition" on Friday, May 23. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former tennis player Jimmy Connors, publicists Karen Geary and Rebecca Mundy, and retailer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Watson & Holmes" #6, by Brandon Easton and N. Steven Harris took top honors at the 2014 Glyph Awards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agent Nicole Aragi has won the 2014 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has won a seven-way auction for two novels by journalist Kate Thompson. Senior... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Gillian Cross is the winner of this year’s Little Rebels Children’s Book Award... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow’s Open Very Carefully, winner of the Waterstones best picture book prize this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oyster, an iPhone and iPad app that gives users unlimited access to its catalog of ebooks for $9.95 per month, announced that it now has more than 500,000 titles available on its service. The New York start-up launched to much acclaim last September, hailed as the Netflix of ebooks. But... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2014-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnard College named Carmen Ren as the first ever recipient of its Axinn Foundation/Anna Quindlen Award for Creative Writing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 20 winning stories will be collected into a single volume, published as an Anchor Books trade paperback original on September 9. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bill Bryson, L. Frank Baum, and more books about road trips to take on the road with you this summer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Second Circuit has issued an administrative stay while a three-judge panel reviews Judge Denise Cote’s decision to proceed with the damages phase of Apple's ebook price-fixing case. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster has won an auction for Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey. Clare Hey, senior... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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W H Smith will be the official bookseller at the 25th Guildford Book Festival. The retailer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus CEO and cofounder Mark Smith will be leaving the company, but aiding in the transition. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"The Goldfinch" is on pace to be the bestselling Pulitzer fiction winner since "Olive Kitteridge." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Smith, chief executive of Quercus, is to leave the publisher following its sale to Hodder... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for the 2014 Caine Prize for African writing includes two writers from Kenya, and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chris Finan, president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, has been awarded the 2014 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award for law. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has won the rights to an “astonishingly assured” debut literary novel,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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