Biteback scoops authorised biography of Diane Abbott

Biteback Publishing has acquired an authorised biography of MP Diane Abbott, to be published in September.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 18:20:45 UTC ]
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Avon scoops Redd's The Arctic Curry Club

Avon has scooped The Arctic Curry Club by debut author and travel writer Dani Redd. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 05:19:17 UTC ]
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Puffin scoops ''magical' Stachera debut

Puffin has scooped The Ice Whisperers, a "haunting and magical" debut novel from Helenka Stachera, in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 14:35:34 UTC ]
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Black History Matters scoops 2020 ALCS Educational Writers' Award

Black History Matters: The Story of Black History, From African Kingdoms to Black Lives Matter by historian Robin Walker has been crowned the winner of the 2020 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 12:12:03 UTC ]
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Lady Anne Dodd pens biography of late husband Ken Dodd

Great Northern Books will publish The Squire of Knotty Ash… and his Lady, an "intimate" biography of the late Sir Ken Dodd by Lady Anne Dodd and biographer and TV producer Tony Nicholson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-06 15:04:40 UTC ]
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S&S scoops Ben Miller's 'festive gem'

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has acquired Diary of A Christmas Elf from children’s author and actor Ben Miller.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 20:57:03 UTC ]
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S&S pre-empts John Stonehouse biography

Simon & Schuster is to publish a biography of former Labour minister John Stonehouse, who faked his own death in 1974. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-29 23:08:09 UTC ]
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Kenneth More estate manager to publish actor's biography

The manager of actor Kenneth More's estate is to publish the actor's first biography in almost 40 years.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-27 04:56:07 UTC ]
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Brown's 'joyous' Beatles biography wins Baillie Gifford Prize

Craig Brown has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his “joyous” One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Fourth Estate), which judges said “reinvented the art of biography”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 18:12:59 UTC ]
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Fitzcarraldo scoops two by 'radical thinker' Preciado

Fitzcarraldo Editions is to publish two books, Can the Monster Speak? Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts and Virus & Revolution, by philosopher and curator Paul B Preciado.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-22 18:46:48 UTC ]
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S&S bags Kamala Harris biography

Simon & Schuster UK is to publish Kamala’s Way, a biography of the new US vice president elect Kamala Harris, written by journalist Dan Morain.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-20 12:02:47 UTC ]
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Picador scoops Patrick Radden Keefe's Sackler history

Picador has scooped a history of the Sackler dynasty from Say Nothing (William Collins) author Patrick Radden Keefe. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 11:50:12 UTC ]
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Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath

“Red Comet” is a prizeworthy contribution to literary scholarship and biographical journalism. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-28 13:21:04 UTC ]
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Carby's 'exceptional' history of British Empire scoops £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

Hazel V Carby has won the British Academy’s £25,000 non-fiction book prize, the 8th Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 17:56:20 UTC ]
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52 Incredible Picture Book Biographies of Black People Creating and Leading

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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Sphere scoops another true crime title from David Wilson

Sphere will publish A Plot to Kill: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal and Murder in a Quiet English Town, from criminologist David Wilson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 17:27:16 UTC ]
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Who was Max Jacob? A poet, friend of Picasso and, a new biography shows, a man who defied easy labels

Rosanna Warren’s enlightening book is rich with anecdote and cameos by early 20th-century intellectuals Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-21 16:02:01 UTC ]
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Barkham pens Roger Deakin biography for Hamish Hamilton

Simon Prosser, publishing director at Hamish Hamilton, has acquired a biography of writer and naturalist Roger Deakin, authored by Patrick Barkham.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-20 16:44:56 UTC ]
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‘Reclaiming Her Time’ is a Maxine Waters biography with as much panache as its subject

Helena Andrews-Dyer and R. Eric Thomas look at the long career of the congresswoman turned social media darling. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-20 13:07:36 UTC ]
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Wildfire scoops a second novel from Brodesser-Akner

Wildfire will publish the second novel by Fleishman Is in Trouble author Taffy Brodesser-Akner in summer 2021.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Canongate scoops Kitson's second novel

Canongate is to publish Mick Kitson's second novel Featherweight, which is based on his family history.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-16 05:16:08 UTC ]
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