The Book Trade Charity (BTBS) and The Matthew Hodder Charitable Trust (MHCT) are to merge to form one organisation carrying the BTBS name. The merger will mean BTBS can now expand its education grants, alongside continuing its welfare support work. BTBS, under chief executive David Hicks, will take over the administration and back-office function of MHCT, which has no staff. MHCT has gifted its assets to BTBS, which is creating the Matthew Hodder Fund, from which four educational grant schemes will be funded. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has won at auction the memoir of ex-Special Forces soldier and record-breaking mountaineer Nims Purja MBE. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 14:18:55 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired two works from behavioural economist Dr Sheheryar Banuri about making decisions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 01:52:13 UTC ]
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Hodder has acquired the rights to "a history of time" from watchmaker and historian Rebecca Struthers following a "fiercely fought", seven-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 00:29:45 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust's new Author of the Week series will kick off with Greg James and Chris Smith, authors of the Kid Normal series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 21:56:16 UTC ]
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Even as New Delhi's air quality improves during the nation's lockdown, the National Book Trust is developing content responsive to the COVID-19 crisis. The post India’s National Book Trust To Produce ‘Corona Studies Series’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-04-06 16:24:03 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has won a seven-way auction to acquire rights to Infinity in a Reed, an account of the invention of books in the ancient world by classicist Irene Vallejo. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-06 12:33:34 UTC ]
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IN HIS FOREWORD to Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy’s An Ecotopian Lexicon, acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson notes, “people playing with language can help bring things and events into sharper cognitive focus.” Indeed, since familiar objects and ideas often... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-04-04 19:00:34 UTC ]
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Hodder Non-Fiction is making a series of changes to its editorial team: Anna Baty is joining from The Bodley Head as senior commissioning editor, while Zuleika’s Tom Perrin is taking on a consultant editor role and Huw Armstrong has been promoted. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 09:00:03 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust has launched new online zone for parents to engage children and support learning at home, with author videos, poetry workshops and illustration sessions, as schools close across the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-19 01:46:19 UTC ]
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Hodder has acquired a celebrity memoir, Eat, Gay, Love, by the YouTube star and radio presenter Calum McSwiggan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-17 11:41:15 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has made some changes to its fiction editorial team, making new hires of Noor Sufi and Molly Power as commissioning editors for its crime and thriller and SFF lists, and promoting Kimberley Atkins to publisher for Women's Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-16 13:08:15 UTC ]
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The merger, for which the two institutions are currently seeking public funding, will see the library take on stewardship of BHS's landmark Pierrepont Street building in Brooklyn Heights as well as all of its holdings and programming. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has snapped up "cosy, festive romance" Someday at Christmas by YA author Tanya Byrne, writing under the pen name Lizzie Byron. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-27 23:09:19 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has snapped up debut author Claire Heywood’s “vivid and illuminating reimagining of the story of the Siege of Troy”, Daughters of Sparta. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-27 00:11:49 UTC ]
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Welbeck Publishing Group is publishing "standout" debut thriller The Prank by L V Matthews. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-21 08:37:24 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a book based on Tunnel 29, a podcast about a student who escaped Communist East Germany only to tunnel back in under the Berlin Wall to help other refugees. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-14 00:30:17 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two magical middle-grade titles from writer and actor Jack Ryder. The books are described as perfect for fans of Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five series, with the first in the deal telling "a heartfelt adventure tale of a secret summer gang". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 04:19:48 UTC ]
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Kishani Widyaratna and Kit Caless have helped raise more than £11,000 for people in poverty in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-23 21:46:33 UTC ]
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The author and playwright Frank White, whose novel There Was a Time was published by Hodder in 2017, has died at the age of 92. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-18 09:56:16 UTC ]
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Congrats to Susan Choi for ending the year on a high note: her novel Trust Exercise, which won this year’s National Book Award for Fiction, is in development to become a limited television series with FilmNation Entertainment. Choi will write the series for FilmNation Entertainment, which was... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-12 21:43:30 UTC ]
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