Books by former president and first lady said to have been sold for more than $60m and will focus on White House yearsBarack and Michelle Obama have signed book deals with Penguin Random House, the publisher announced on Tuesday.Financial terms were not disclosed for the books, for which several publishers had competed, although it was reported by the Financial Times that bidding reached more than $60m, a record sum for US presidential memoirs. Related: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 5 – Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995) Related: Michelle Obama's American Grown: the book, like the garden, too manicured | Emma G Keller Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What CEO Markus Dohle calls 'a natural extension and complement' to PRH's work in Southeast Asia, the new company will have a 50-title output at the start. The post Penguin Random House Opening Southeast Asian Operation Based in Singapore appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michelle Obama at the annual American Library Association conference in June. After keeping a relatively low profile since leaving the White House, the former first lady is returning to the public sphere in dramatic fashion. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2018-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze has signed a new two-book deal with thriller writer Alison Belsham, taking her debut The Tattoo Thief on into a trilogy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House (PRH) has four books on the longlist for this year’s William Hill Sports Book of the Year, which celebrates excellence in sports writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has signed a two-book deal with author and illustrator Sandra Dieckmann. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has acquired three more books by Ross Welford, author of Time Travelling with a Hamster. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Catherine O’Flynn, whose novel What Was Lost won the first novel prize at the Costa Book Awards in 2008, has written a children’s book about two girls who want to be detectives. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A German author is taking Random House to court for declining to release his book Hostile Takeover: How Islam Hampers Progress and Threatens Society which it originally signed on the basis of a 10-page proposal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Ondaatje speaks Sunday after winning the Golden Man Booker Prize for his novel "The English Patient" at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The awards recognize the nation’s “most innovative public libraries and librarians for community-based library programs that engage citizens in reading and strengthen the social and cultural fabric of their community.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4th Estate is to publish the Bullet Journal creator’s first book featuring a manifesto for "intentional living". In The Bullet Journal Method, Ryder Carroll, who designed the popular organisational system, will explore how to use his method to track the past, order the present and design the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin has scored two books on the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize shortlist, one about Stalin’s metereologist and another about an eight-year journey across “forgotten Russia”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hot Key Books, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre, has signed a six-book contract with former SAS soldier Chris Ryan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus imprint Aria Fiction has signed a four-book deal with Rachel Brimble for her series of novels set in a department store in Bath. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harlan Coben's new agreement with Grand Central reunites him with his long-time editor Ben Sevier, who published the author at Dutton before moving to GCP last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward will follow up her NBA-winning novel 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' with two new books, to be published by Scribner and Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Publishing’s Thomas & Mercer imprint has signed two new titles from former BBC journalist, Teresa Driscoll. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Never have the voices of writers and their allies been so essential,' says the leadership of the merging Los Angeles and New York City chapters of PEN. And one of the most robust lifestyle-and-wellness publishers in the States is now part of PRH. The post Merger Notes: Two PEN Chapters, and... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital publisher Canelo has signed a three-book deal for a new police procedural series by Rachel Lynch. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Oswald, author of the Inspector McLean series, is to move from Penguin to Headline imprint Wildfire for his next four books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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