Bryan honoured by Washington Post

The Laurence Stern Fellowship, a long-standing programme of the Washington Post, giving young British journalists experience of working in its newsroom each summer, is being renamed in honour of agent Felicity Bryan as the Stern-Bryan Fellowship. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 02:32:04 UTC ]

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Book Review: ‘Midnight in Washington,’ by Adam Schiff

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A Memoir of Post-Genocide Refugee Life Rendered With Delicacy and Insight

In “Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds,” Mondiant Dogon, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, recounts a saga of horror, frustration and hope. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Canada’s Guest of Honour time finally comes

The team behind the Canadian Guest of Honour programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair has had to be patient and nimble, but the nation’s time in the spotlight is finally upon us. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Keeping events accessible in a post-pandemic landscape

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The post-apocalyptic world of Joy Williams’s ‘Harrow’ reads like a cautionary tale

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Washington slept there: Retracing his travels to unite the new nation

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High court rules Australian media companies can be liable for defamatory comments posted on Facebook pages

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Children's Institute 9: Indie Bookselling in a Post-Pandemic World

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Quercus pre-empts Morrison's book on birth and post-partum recovery

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Louise Penny’s latest mystery imagines a post-covid world. Things are still pretty complicated.

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