Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 04/04/2011 - 15:00 Biteback has bought the memoir of former Northern Ireland secretary of state and anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain. Managing director Iain Dale bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Guam and South Africa) from Caroline Michel at PFD. Published in January 2012, Outside In charts Hain's political career. An anti-apartheid campaigner from the 1960s to the 1980s, following in the footsteps of his parents who were briefly jailed for their campaigning, Hain was later sent a letter bomb that failed to explode and also framed on a bank theft charge. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#south africa
#caroline michel
Scholastic CEO Peter Warwick talks about his IP strategy, prioritizing kids' well-being, and this season's forthcoming titles. The post Kids First: Peter Warwick on Scholastic’s Strategy for the Modern Era appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-16 13:46:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#scholastic
#forthcoming titles
#modern era
Barry Diller has a memoir coming out next spring, covering a life that could fill multiple volumes Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2024-10-16 12:14:39 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#memoir coming
'Hope' will be published by Random House in the U.S., and simultaneously in more than 80 countries, on January 14, with Italian publisher Mondadori managing world rights. Random House is touting the book as "the first memoir written by a sitting pontiff." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#random house
#mondadori
#sitting pontiff
#memoir written
#pope francis
#publish memoir
The film, set in Australia, explores love, loss and life’s imperfections against some very recognisable backdrops. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2024-10-16 02:14:43 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
How did the Al Pacino of the 1970s become the Al Pacino of today? His new book provides an answer. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2024-10-15 17:25:15 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#al pacino
#memoir helped
Unleashed, which covers Johnson’s time as mayor of London, foreign secretary and prime minister, was the bestselling book of the weekBoris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, sold 42,528 copies in its opening week after being published on 10 October, making it the bestselling book of last week.This... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-15 14:27:52 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#bestselling book
#ten years
#tony blair
#prime minister
#foreign secretary
#boris johnson
#opening week
Al Pacino's book is an eccentric mix of self-reflection and career reframing as one of Hollywood's giants talks about his troubled youth and rise to fame. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-10-12 14:00:51 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#al pacino
"I think he had kissed Tatum O'Neal," she wrote in her newly published posthumous memoir. Continue reading at HuffPost
[ HuffPost | 2024-10-08 17:24:18 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
Sold at half price, the former PM’s apologia of his career has outstripped sales of recent novels by Sally Rooney and Richard OsmanBoris Johnson’s memoir, which is published next week, is already topping the Amazon UK Books Best Sellers list, outselling recently published novels by Sally Rooney... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-04 11:00:09 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#prime minister
#foreign secretary
#richard osman
#sally rooney
#recent novels
#half price
#boris johnson
A purported Kim Porter memoir is pulled by Amazon after 'a dispute regarding this title.' The removal comes after Porter's kids with Diddy called the book fake. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-10-02 21:36:05 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
Book claiming to tell story of abusive relationship was denounced by their children as fabricatedAmazon confirmed on Tuesday the removal of a memoir from its site that purports to tell the story of an abusive relationship between the late actor and model Kim Porter and her longtime partner, the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-02 13:14:09 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#lost words
#abusive relationship
Kim Porter's children take aim at a purported memoir detailing her relationship with Sean 'Diddy' Combs: 'Claims that our mom wrote a book are simply untrue.' Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-09-25 18:22:50 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
I was young when I first started using words to avoid reality. The earliest examples can be found in my teenage journals which, while not quite fiction, display a decidedly ambivalent relationship with the truth. I wrote around the subjects of my sexual orientation and gender identity as if I... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-25 08:57:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#gender identity
#sexual orientation
Plus cover reveals, the Booker Prize shortlist, and the trailer for HEARTSTOPPER Season 3 . Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-09-19 14:30:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#book news
WARNING: This article contains details of abuse. In his new memoir Just Say Yes, Quirks and Quarks host Bob McDonald charts his path from an unhappy and sometimes abusive home to Canada's foremost explainer of all things scientific. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2024-09-13 14:31:59 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#sexually abused
Tracy O’Neill’s Woman of Interest is a quest memoir: a voyage there and back, out and in. The book recounts the author’s search for her birth mother during the frightening heights of covid, “a pandemic that had miniaturized life.” Enlisting the help of a PI named Joe, a former CIA operative,... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-09-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#electric literature
#book recounts
With a memoir, a Broadway turn in 'Moulin Rouge!,' a planned tour and new music, Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque is back in control of her career. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-09-12 10:00:34 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#breakout hit
Giving the Monash Oration in Sydney, Kim Williams says truth and democracy suffers every time a job in journalism is cut Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe chair of the ABC has quoted the memoir of US vice-presidential candidate JD Vance while discussing the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-09-04 11:02:26 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#memoir
#public discourse
#free app
Continuing its international expansion, Simon & Schuster's Australian arm acquires Affirm Press, a 14-year-old independent publisher. The post Simon & Schuster Australia Acquires Affirm Press appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-08-26 15:00:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#schuster
#independent publisher
#simon schuster
#international expansion
The agreement to buy the Melbourne-based independent publisher is Simon & Schuster's second overseas acquisition since it was bought by KKR late last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#independent publisher
#simon schuster