The mass-market retailer has launched a raft of changes at its Bath store, appealing to its core market of light readers and consumers of children’s titles under a new books duo. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 07:34:31 UTC ]
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Kishani Widyaratna, currently commissioning editor at Picador, is joining HarperCollins as editorial director for Fourth Estate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 20:51:30 UTC ]
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Indie September Publishing has revealed two lead titles for spring: Melissa Rice's memoir Sobering: Lessons Learnt the Hard Way on Drinking, Thinking and Quitting, and Ronald J Deibert's non-fiction work, Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 01:43:01 UTC ]
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Check out wonderful picture book biographies of inspiring Black icons, including Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-10-26 10:33:00 UTC ]
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Lit in Colour, the publisher’s partnership with the Runnymede Trust, hopes to redress imbalances in English literature coursesThe book publisher Penguin Random House has teamed up with the thinktank the Runnymede Trust to boost diversity in reading lists in schools.The partnership – Lit in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-10-24 16:11:09 UTC ]
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Dorling Kindersley will put a focus on sustainability in its spring list next year, revealing titles to encourage the public to "make more sustainable choices". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-23 10:44:48 UTC ]
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News and Events Photo by Christopher T. Assaf World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smith as the winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-10-20 23:56:14 UTC ]
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Early Nielsen figures showed Joseph R. Biden Jr. drawing 13.9 million viewers, against 13.1 million for President Trump, a ratings obsessive. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-10-16 18:09:04 UTC ]
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Sweet Cherry is to publish 10 of Dick King-Smith's titles, with the centenary of the author's birth upcoming in 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 06:25:31 UTC ]
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PRH imprint #Merky Books is in the running to win £1m of Channel 4 airtime after making the six-strong shortlist for the broadcaster's Diversity in Advertising Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-14 20:10:57 UTC ]
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At the Frankfurt Book Fair conference, writer Bernardine Evaristo delivered a forceful keynote on the systemic bias against people of color in the UK publishing industry The post Bernardine Evaristo to UK Publishing: Hire More Diverse People appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-14 18:02:09 UTC ]
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Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is again putting more money toward computer science education in the region, this time with a $100,000 donation to the University of Maryland's engineering school for diversity initiatives and robotics programming. Specifically, Amazon Lab126, the... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-10-14 11:53:45 UTC ]
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Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is again putting more money toward computer science education in Greater Washington, this time with a $100,000 donation to the University of Maryland's engineering school for diversity initiatives and robotics programming. Specifically, Amazon Lab126, the... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-10-13 15:47:55 UTC ]
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On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Maggie Smith, whose inspirational memoir, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change, is published by Atria/One Signal Publishers. In the book, Smith intersperses bits of memoir — about moving forward after... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-10-09 08:48:58 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has published a diversity and inclusion action plan, featuring measures and targets to employ and publish more people of colour. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 10:50:31 UTC ]
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Jessie Greengrass has followed former John Murray publisher Mark Richards to Swift Press, where she will be launching her new novel, The High House. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 03:20:47 UTC ]
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Candice Carty-Williams, Nikesh Shukla and Ayisha Malik are among authors shortlisted for this year's inaugural Diverse Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-02 16:05:26 UTC ]
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Ebury Press editorial director Emma Smith has acquired Happy Planning, a "practical guide for those who like to prep" from Charlotte Plain, a.k.a. Instagrammer Princess Planning. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-02 13:17:37 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two middle-grade fiction titles by debut author Kate Gilby Smith, to be published on the Orion Children's Book imprint. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-02 10:02:53 UTC ]
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Scholastic UK has acquired two middle-grade books from TV personalities and Diversity dance collective members Ashley and Jordan Banjo. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-01 02:08:16 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate has won a 10-publisher auction for Pauline Harmange’s I Hate Men, which caused a storm on its release in France, with calls for it to be banned. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-27 13:23:29 UTC ]
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