Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Aleandra Pringle has bought a new novel from US writer Nicole Krauss, titled Late Wonder. The buy, together with a collection of short stories titled How to Be a Man, was made at auction from Zoe Waldie at Rogers, Coleridge & White, in association with Melanie Jackson. Late Wonder is said by Waldie to be "immensely profound, but at the same time a page turner", with a "most beguiling and complex character." Meanwhile How to Be a Man will show "the full range of Nicole Krauss's exquisite style," she said. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book won three awards at the US Audie Awards, which recognise achievements in audiobooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German writer and director Jenny Erpenbeck has won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days (Portobello Books), translated by Susan Bernofsky, in the prize’s 25th anniversary year. Erpenbeck and Bernofsky were presented with the £10,000 award, which they will share, at a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At this year’s BEA, Bloomsbury (3156) will be launching a new imprint, marking the fifth anniversary of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, and hosting signings for two authors: one already a familiar name to booksellers around the world and the other, a new presence on the international scene. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Tor says ‘we’d be nuts to decline’ 13-book contract, which will include three young adult novels alongside next instalments of Old Man’s War seriesAmerican science fiction author John Scalzi has signed a 10-year, 13-book deal with publishers Tor, which will net him $3.4m (£2.2m).Scalzi... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Meek's Private Island (Verso Books) has won the Orwell Prize for books, which celebrates political writing. Meek was announced as the winner of the annual prize at a ceremony at the University of Westminster yesterday (21st May). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brigid Coady has won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (RNA) Joan Hessayon Award for her book No One Wants to be Miss Havisham (HarperImpulse). Coady was presented with the £1,000 prize for the award, given for new writers, at the RNA’s Summer Party, held this evening (21st May) at the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s book editor Rebecca Lewis-Oakes has been named as the winner of the 10th Kim Scott Walwyn Prize. Lewis-Oakes, an editor at Puffin, was one of the first people to commission a YouTube star, before vloggers became the rage, prize organisers said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Although sales and earnings at Bloomsbury were relatively flat for the year ended February 28, 2015 compared to fiscal 2014, the company did make progress in easing its dependence on the “traditional book market,” company chief executive Nigel Newton said. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has bought a book on social health by Julia Hobsbawm, the founder of knowledge networking business Editorial Intelligence and the world’s first professor in networking. Bloomsbury acquired world rights in the book, titled Fully Connected, from Toby Mundy at TMA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir has won the 2015 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. The book, translated by Victoria Cribb and published by Hodder & Stoughton, was chosen as the wining title by Petrona Award judges Barry Forshaw, Dr Katharina Hall... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. The British literary honor, which is award every two years, comes with a £60,000 purse. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher also has high hopes for its 2015 fiction list, which includes new novels from William Boyd and Margaret AtwoodHarry Potter has conjured up another year of wizard sales for Bloomsbury, helping the publisher to ride out a decline in income from adult fiction.Sales of the boy wizard’s... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Giancarlo Gemin has won a Welsh book award for his debut children’s novel Cowgirl (Nosy Crow). The English language Tir na n-Og award, organised by the Welsh Books Council, and sponsored by Cilip Wales, is for the best English-language title with an authentic Welsh background. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Allen Lane books have won this year’s annual Wolfson History Prize. National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen and Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 by Alexander Watson were announced as the winners of the prize at a reception at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neel Mukherjee has won the £10,000 Encore Award for his novel The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Emma Cox, a headteacher from Devon, has won this year’s New Children’s Author Prize, organised by the National Literacy Trust and Bloomsbury. Malkin Moonlight, chosen from a shortlist of six books, is about a cat who is looking for his friend Roux. He comes across a group of cats at a recycling... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A title from Welsh press Honno has won the Bread & Roses award for radical publishing. Here We Stand: Women Changing the World, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones, is a collection of interviews and articles in which 17 British women campaigners talk about their activism.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Senior commissioning editor Bill Swainson is to leave Bloomsbury in a cost-cutting restructure at the publishing house. Swainson, who has been at Bloomsbury for 15 years, will depart at the end of June. Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle said the company was having to "restructure... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Malaysian children's book illustrator Wen Dee Tan, who won the top prize at the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival, discusses the mission of her work. The post Malaysia’s Wen Dee Tan Wins Illustrator’s Award at Sharjah appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Wake wins honour from the Bookseller magazine, recognising both the book and its innovative publisher UnboundPaul Kingsnorth’s crowdfunded novel The Wake, which the author wrote in an invented form of Old English and originally envisaged self-publishing, has won the inaugural book of the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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