Anne Fine vies for Carnegie hat-trick

Author Anne Fine is in the running to win the CILIP Carnegie medal for a third time, with novel... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Personal Space: Samantha Irby is Fine Not Leaving the House

This is Personal Space: The Memoir Show, with Sari Botton. On this episode, Botton speaks with Samantha Irby about her recently released essay collection, Wow, No Thank You. Irby discusses what it was like to move to a small town in the country after a lifetime of city living, how people wearing... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-16 20:00:01 UTC ]
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CILIP moves celebrations for 2020's Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal winners

CILIP is postponing the winners' ceremony for the 2020 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals and extending its Shadowing Scheme until October, taking into account the government's advice concerning the ongoing pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-05 22:58:32 UTC ]
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Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’

The Booker Prize winner’s seventh novel follows a daughter looking back at her famous mother’s life. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-25 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’

The Booker Prize winner’s seventh novel follows a daughter looking back at her famous mother’s life. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-25 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Walker Books leads 2020 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway longlists

Independent publisher Walker Books leads this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals longlists for the second year running, with 10 entries. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-19 23:34:53 UTC ]
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Tayari Jones on the Necessary American History of Ann Petry’s The Street

The Street is a groundbreaking work of American literature that is as relevant today as when it was published in 1946. When it won Ann Petry the Houghton Mifflin Prize for Debut Writers, the literary world was put on notice. Everyone agreed that the novel was brilliant, but, as is the case with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-01-06 09:47:44 UTC ]
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Ann and Jeff VanderMeer On Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

In this episode, taped live at the Miami Book Fair, writer Jeff VanderMeer and editor Ann VanderMeer talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about editing The Big Book of Classic Fantasy anthology, historical understandings of fantasy, editing beyond... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-05 09:48:07 UTC ]
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Virago aims for 'major reappraisal' of Ann Petry's work with 2020 reissues

Virago Modern Classics is publishing two novels by Ann Petry next year, The Street and The Narrows, in a bid to spark "a major reappraisal" of the author's work.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-22 08:24:55 UTC ]
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Fact-Checking Help from Readers: A Conversation with Ann Patchett on “The Dutch House”

ANN PATCHETT IS an American writer and independent bookseller who has authored eight novels, three books of nonfiction, co-authored a children’s book, and edited two books of essays. Her latest novel is The Dutch House, which was released this September. Patchett has received numerous awards and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-12 20:00:45 UTC ]
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Therese Anne Fowler Is Looking Forward

The author shifts her attention from past to present in her new novel, 'A Good Neighborhood.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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New Anne Enright novel on fame and sexual power set for 2020

Man Booker-winning author Anne Enright’s next novel, Actress, about sexual power and celebrity, will be published by Jonathan Cape in February 2020. Jonathan Cape publisher Robin Robertson acquired UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada from Peter Straus of Rogers, Coleridge & White... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-27 08:38:57 UTC ]
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Mirror Books unleashes book on new tricks from old dogs

Mirror Books has snapped up a German bestseller on how old dogs can teach new tricks, including “patience, enduring love and forgiveness.”   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-17 05:30:08 UTC ]
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Ann Patchett | 'Can you remember things the way they actually happened?'

Ann Patchett’s new novel is a moving story of siblings who lose everything—except each other. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 09:22:01 UTC ]
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Anne Meadows made editorial director at Granta

Granta’s senior commissioning editor Anne Meadows has been promoted to editorial director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 10:37:27 UTC ]
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CILIP Carnegie Medal revises criteria and launches Inclusive Minds project

Judging criteria for the CILIP Carnegie Medal have been revised to create a “more inclusive, child-focused” awards and a new partnership launched with Inclusive Minds. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 05:59:02 UTC ]
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New Ann Cleeves novel snapped up for TV series

Ann Cleeves' latest book The Long Call (Pan Macmillan) has been snapped up for a television series by Silverprint Pictures. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-27 07:15:07 UTC ]
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Industry Notes: UK Postcode Lottery Helps Book Aid; F+W Fine Arts Sold to Peak Media

Lottery funds in the UK have generated more than £1.85 million for Book Aid International, and F+W Media's assets in arts and crafts go to Peak Media. The post Industry Notes: UK Postcode Lottery Helps Book Aid; F+W Fine Arts Sold to Peak Media appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-15 05:30:02 UTC ]
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Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Mary Anne Mohanraj on the Anniversary of Apollo 11 and Space Exploration

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, author and illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and science fiction writer Mary Anne Mohanraj talk to hosts V. V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and how space exploration has been... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 08:47:28 UTC ]
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Hot Key snaps up Carnegie winner Acevedo in six-figure three-book pre-empt

Bonnier imprint Hot Keys has signed CILIP Carnegie winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo in a six-figure three-book pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 16:22:25 UTC ]
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How Jeff and Ann VanderMeer picked stories for their new Big Book of Classic Fantasy.

Imagine being ushered into a vast and palatial room on a sumptuous estate to rival Versailles… and before you, across a golden table, lies a smorgasbord of delights. A banquet fit for a king, a queen, or even an emperor. As you gaze upon this wonder, you’re told you may eat only one meal from […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-02 19:16:57 UTC ]
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