Big hitters including Lee Child, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid feature on the longlist for the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jessie Childs has won the 2015 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history for her book about religious persecution in Elizabethan England, God's Traitors (Bodley Head). She beat off competition from five other shortlisted authors to win the £2,000 annual prize, funded by former PEN member Marjorie... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jessie Burton’s [pictured] novel The Miniaturist (Picador) and Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing (Viking) are among 10 novels longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015. The award celebrates the best debut fiction of the year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child, Maj Sjöwall, James Runcie and Sophie Hannah are among the authors set to speak at this year’s CrimeFest convention. The crime fiction convention will be held at the Marriott Royal Hotel in Bristol from 14th to 17th May in association with Goldsboro Books and will see authors, agents... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahead of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, a look at the international licensing market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlists will be released on April 15, and the winners will be announced on May 13. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new Rebus novel by Ian Rankin will be published this autumn. Orion Fiction m.d. Jon Wood bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Even Dogs in the Wild, Rankin’s 20th Rebus novel, and one other book from Peter Robinson of Rogers, Coleridge & White. Rankin teased fans on Twitter earlier this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new Scholastic report found that a whopping 91 percent of children ages 6 to 17 said, 'My favorite books are the ones that I have picked out myself.' The books children liked the most were those that made them laugh, that let them use their imagination, and that tell made-up stories. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard and Haruki Murakami are among the authors whose work features on the longlist for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Meanwhile books originally written in German take five of the 15 spots, and Quercus has three titles on the selection. The Independent Foreign... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The recipients of this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards, which recognized titles published in 2014, were announced at a ceremony at the New School on March 12. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anne Tyler, Sarah Waters, Ali Smith, and five debut novelists including Emma Healey and Sara Taylor are on the longlist for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Meanwhile chair of judges Shami Chakrabarti has told The Bookseller: "Until you can honestly see that women are getting the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 20-strong longlist for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction features five debut novels, alongside an author nominated for her 20th book. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government has announced plans to improve literacy by promoting public library membership in primary schools. But the move has had a mixed reaction, with campaigner Laura Swaffield describing the news as a “bad joke for World Book Day”. The government has put together an action plan,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Martin Amis, Sarah Waters and Jessie Burton have made the 15-strong longlist for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The longlist has been released for the first time following a 40% increase in entries this year. Amis is longlisted for his dark love story set in a Nazi... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walker Books is the publisher with the most books on the longlists for this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway awards, with four books listed for the Carnegie and six for the Kate Greenaway (full longlist below). Walker’s Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman, Hello Darkness by Anthony... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Discover the 20 longlisted contenders for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2015, including former children’s laureate Anthony Browne, Mini Grey, Jim Kay, Catherine Rayner, Shaun Tan and Chris Riddell (with two nominated titles on this year’s longlist)Find out about the 2015 Carnegie medal... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crime writer Ian Rankin is working on a new Rebus novel. The author gave hints about the new book to his Twitter followers, writing: “So much *plot* in this new book I'm doing, I'm having to focus on that so it doesn't wriggle away from me. Character/nuance/etc for later.” He continued: “Once I... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The judges of the 2015 Branford Boase have longlisted 18 "very varied" books for this year’s award, including the YA Book Prize-shortlisted Trouble by Non Pratt (Walker Books) and Half Bad by Sally Green (Penguin). The Branford Boase is given every year to the author and editor of a debut... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newsflash: check out which debut authors and their editors have made the list for this literary prize! As any author will tell you, great books are a bit of a team effort – especially their first book – and that’s why the Branford Boase award was launched 15 years ago This award is given every... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Liberal Democrat 2015 election manifesto will include a commitment to end child illiteracy by 2025, Nick Clegg announced yesterday (18th January). The party leader said the Lib Dems was the only party which could ensure all children who leave primary school in 2025 will be able to read and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Man Booker Prize has made significant tweaks to its rules for 2015, abandoning its former rule on the availability of print books following the longlist announcement, placing time limits on the eligibility of titles published outside the UK, and defining the term "publisher" more closely. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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