Faber Academy partners with Mumsnet

Faber Academy has expanded its creative writing programme to offer a series of writing courses in... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eccles Centre partners with Hay Festival for 2020 Writer’s Award

The Eccles Centre at the British Library is joining forces with Hay Festival on the Centre's £20,000 Writer’s Award, which will become the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber and Granta among first recipients of Mo Siewcharran grants

The Mo Siewcharran Fund has dealt out its first grants since it was founded, rewarding two publishing houses - Faber & Faber and Granta Books - with £5,000 each to subsidise internships for young people pursuing a career in the Arts.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber scoops Hamer's 'gripping' third novel

Faber will publish the third novel from Kate Hamer, Crushed, about an obsessive friendship between three girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Riley takes Geoffrey Faber Prize for First Love's 'brutal truthfulness'

Gwendoline Riley has scooped the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Fiction 2017 for her fifth novel First Love (Granta). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gwendoline Riley's 'brutal' novel about toxic marriage wins Geoffrey Faber prize

With her novel First Love, the 39-year-old author joins eminent former winners including Seamus Heaney and Alice OswaldGwendoline Riley’s unsparing depiction of an abusive relationship in her novel First Love has won her the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize.First Love, the English author’s fifth... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH unveils brand partners for Scarlett Curtis’ feminist title

Penguin Random House is partnering with Monki, Google and Black & Beech to promote Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and Other Lies), the collection of essays curated by Scarlett Curtis. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Finn examines world of ultra running in Guardian Faber acquisition

Guardian Faber has acquired a book about ‘ultra running’, one of the “toughest sports in the world”, by Adharanand Finn. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Talbot leaves Little, Brown for Faber sales role

Sara Talbot is leaving Little, Brown to join Faber as sales director in February. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Igloo Books partners with Aldi for second Kevin and Katie title

Igloo Books is again partnering with Aldi to publish books based on the supermarket’s new Kevin and Katie Christmas advert. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookTrust partners with ClearVision for braille picture book project

Nadia Shireen’s The Bumblebear (Puffin) is now available in braille via ClearVision’s library scheme thanks to a partnership with BookTrust. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yoto and HCG partner on Magic Faraway Tree audio recordings

Hachette Children’s Group is partnering with Yoto to offer audio recordings of Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree titles, read by Kate Winslet. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kassabova wins British Academy's £25k Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

Kapka Kassabova's "extraordinary" book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta) has won the British Academy’s £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber to bring out previously unpublished Plath short story

Faber is to publish "Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom", a previously unpublished short story written by Sylvia Plath as a college assignment in 1952. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent editor flies out for meeting with Saudi partner

Staff concerned that Christian Broughton’s trip coincides with ‘Davos in the desert’ conference after Jamal Khashoggi killingThe editor of the Independent has flown to Riyadh to meet with the news outlet’s controversial new Saudi publishing partner despite growing concerns over its links to the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH plans staff sale of 'Becoming' to empower the Advocacy Academy

Viking will be selling copies of Michelle Obama’s upcoming autobiography, Becoming, to PRH UK staff for £5-apiece on publication day to raise money for the Advocacy Academy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber enjoys further 'stellar' year

Faber saw "another stellar year" for the financial year ending March 2018, although with turnover and profit narrowly down on the previous year’s results due to a dip in ebook sales and fewer fiction paperbacks. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins partners with Nestlé’s Quality Street on factory-set novel

​HarperCollins UK will next month publish a novel inspired by Quality Street after signing a publishing partnership with the Nestlé brand. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Questex Sold to PE Firm MidOcean Partners; Paul Miller Named CEO

Questex, the Newton, Mass.-based publisher and trade show producer serving the travel-hospitality and technology spaces, among others, has been acquired by private equity firm MidOcean Partners from Shamrock Capital, which had owned the company since 2014. Financial terms were not disclosed. As... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2018-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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De Bellaigue, Mekhennet, Kaufmann shortlisted for £25k British Academy prize

Six writers will contest the shortlist for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018, the British Academy's £25,000 international prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Liverpool University Press partners with The Conversation

Liverpool University Press has become the inaugural university press partner of The Conversation UK, an independent source of news and views sourced from university academics and researchers and delivered direct to the public, in a partnership LUP is calling the first of its kind. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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