Choc Lit has acquired a contemporary romance novel, recommended to the publisher by WH Smith Travel fiction buyer Matt Bates. Lyn Vernham, m.d. of the independent women’s fiction publisher, bought world rights to Sheryl Browne’s book, currently called For the Rest of My Life, direct from the author. Vernham heard about the book from Bates, who read the manuscript after meeting Browne at the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Annual Conference. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“The Babur Nama is an oddly modern text, almost Proustian in its self-awareness.” William Dalrymple on the 16th-century memoir far ahead of its time. | Lit Hub Biography “We have had no truth and reconciliation process.” On the renaissance of American white supremacy, a conversation with Isaac... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-07 12:30:24 UTC ]
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Michael O’Mara Books has agreed a licensing deal with Ameet Publishing to publish LEGO activity, sticker and colouring books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 12:51:43 UTC ]
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“We have taken a path of improvisation and experimentation.” How the literary world reinvented the book festival in real time. | Lit Hub “To be forever alone in your own kingdom seems a unique kind of heartbreak.” LA’s resident mountain lion is a lonely hunter. | Lit Hub Nature The age of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-03 11:30:17 UTC ]
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Bookouture's non-fiction imprint Thread is publishing How To Be a Boss at Ageing by broadcaster and writer Anniki Sommerville who hosts a podcast of the same name. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 02:36:45 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) has won a seven-publisher auction to publish middle-grade and picture books by Sir Lenny Henry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-31 06:26:43 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has acquired a guide to help women beat stress, Stressilient, by clinical psychologist Dr Sam Akbar. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 18:33:25 UTC ]
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The push in book publishing for more authors and workers of color hasn’t abated, and companies are increasingly making lasting changes to the way they do business. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-10-29 16:18:17 UTC ]
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Canongate is to publish illustrator and graphic designer Kazvare Knox's instructive guide Stay Woke, Kids! Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 06:12:41 UTC ]
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Hachette Book Group has launched Legacy Lit, a new imprint that will focus on books by BIPOC writers. The imprint will be led by Krishan Trotman, and will focus primarily on nonfiction titles, publishing 12-15 books a year starting in 2022. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Avon Books has acquired world all language rights (including dramatic) to The Family Tree and one other thriller by authors Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 18:36:13 UTC ]
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“My hope was that by embracing openness and vulnerability, my readers would understand and empathize with the situation I had found myself in.” Allison Wood talks to Luna Adler about what a memoir can do. | Lit Hub Memoir “There is enough evidence in the public record to support a complaint that... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-10-26 10:30:04 UTC ]
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The National Book Critics Circle has asked members to sign a Criticism Equity Pledge, which asks them to dedicate 30% of assignments to books by BIPOC authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 200 children's authors and illustrators, including Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman and Cressida Cowell, have signed a letter condemning the government’s vote rejecting the extension of its free school meal scheme over the holidays. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 00:51:58 UTC ]
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Former prime ministers urge others to join push for royal commission into lack of media diversity in AustraliaFormer Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has signed Kevin Rudd’s petition calling for a royal commission into News Corp’s dominance of the Australian media.Rudd, also a former... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-10-25 05:42:32 UTC ]
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H.W. Brands critiques the wildly different paths the two men took toward the same goal. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-23 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Summersdale has signed Doctors Get Cancer Too: A Doctor’s Diary of Life and Recovery from Cancer by Dr Philippa Kaye, featuring a foreword by broadcaster Sara Cox. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 15:49:35 UTC ]
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Faber has announced the winners, and signed up all four finalists, of this year's Faber & Andlyn (FAB) Prize for new writers and illustrators from under-represented backgrounds. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 11:14:35 UTC ]
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William Dalrymple, Vincent Brown and Camilla Townsend have been announced as the 2020 finalists for the $75,000 (£58,000) Cundill History Prize, the highest value non-fiction award in the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-20 15:27:01 UTC ]
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Headline will publish Two Hitlers and a Marilyn by Adam Andrusier in July 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-19 12:19:03 UTC ]
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Deals for big-issue books were still being struck for substantial sums, despite the Frankfurt Book Fair taking place virtually as a result of the pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 16:05:23 UTC ]
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