Helen Dunmore's poetry collection, Inside the Wave, wins 2018's Costa Book of the Year prize. Continue reading at 'BBC News'
[ BBC News | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has scooped a brand new Magic Faraway Tree adventure, inspired by Enid Blyton and written by Jacqueline Wilson. It will be the first Magic Faraway Tree book in 75 years and the first in the series by an author other than Blyton. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-10 14:31:13 UTC ]
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Led by the fiction categories, unit sales of print books rose 8.9% in 2021 over 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. 825.7 million print units were sold last year, a jump of nearly 68 million over 2020 and a whopping 132 million over 2019. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The downturn in print book sales in Russia may have been as deep as between 50 and 70 percent, according to editor Svetlana Zorin. The post Year-End Russian Book Publishing Industry Assessment: ‘Seriously Difficult’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-04 14:35:09 UTC ]
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The New York Times Book Review marked their anniversary by asking readers to nominate the best book of the past 125 years. Here's the result. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2022-01-03 15:52:45 UTC ]
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Publisher Peter Usborne, novelist Anthony Horowitz and cookery writer Claudia Roden have all been awarded the CBE in the New Year's Honours list, while there are also awards for authors including Adele Parks, Onjali Q Raúf and Ann Cleeves. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-31 16:08:34 UTC ]
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Authors including Lee Child and John Grisham have been awarded $7.8m (£5.8m) in damages, after teaming up with Amazon and Penguin Random House to sue a number of pirate e-book sites at work in Ukraine. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-29 09:54:39 UTC ]
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There were too many worthy books, but I had too little time — and, alas, too many excuses. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-28 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is partnering with the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award to celebrate the best emerging talent in the UK and Ireland, hosting exclusive accompanying content across all its channels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-20 08:28:44 UTC ]
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Leigh Altshuler is one of a number of booksellers to open up shop during the pandemic, though her store in Manhattan's Lower East Side is, to put it mildly, is unique: it's also a pickle shop. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Here's what it's really like to judge a children's book award, including the surprising best part of the process (it's not the free books!) Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-12-08 11:33:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Maycock has won the 2021 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award for her children's book Sometimes I Feel: A Menagerie of Feelings Big and Small (Big Picture Press.) Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-07 22:38:06 UTC ]
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Mathelinda Nabugodi has won the £10,000 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award for her "engaging and fascinating" work of non-fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-07 20:28:37 UTC ]
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Last week, the Electric Lit team stayed glued to our phone screens as we tasked our social media followers with anointing the best book cover of 2021. The tournament was full of close calls determined by razor-thin margins (Mona at Sea prevailed over Black Girl Call Home by just five votes in... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-12-06 12:00:00 UTC ]
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What are this year’s top stocking stuffers and can this year’s judge play fair? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-06 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Roy Schwartz’s Is Superman Circumcised?, a look at Superman’s Jewish influences, has won U.K.-based Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, beating out The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé for the honor. Is Superman Circumcised? won in a landslide, taking... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-12-03 18:03:46 UTC ]
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Journalist Philip Clark and novelist and essayist Javier Montes have been named as the winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award, at a reception at the British Library. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 10:40:51 UTC ]
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If the Boise Public Library were still enforcing the late fee printed in the book, it would have racked up more than $800 in fines. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2021-11-27 19:13:28 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble names their Book of the Year and a Speculative Book of the Year. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-11-18 14:57:13 UTC ]
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Here are the 2021 winners of the National Book Award across five different categories. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-11-18 12:21:03 UTC ]
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Tiya Miles won the nonfiction prize for “All That She Carried.” The author Karen Tei Yamashita received a lifetime achievement award. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-11-18 02:46:50 UTC ]
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