Faber has signed a debut psychological thriller by writer Susan Crawford. Katherine Armstrong... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A petition has launched to name a newly-discovered element "octarine" - the colour of magic in the late Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Howe has won the £20,000 T S Eliot Prize for her debut collection Loop of Jade – the first time a debut has won the award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Holiday House, an independent publisher based in New York, has bought the US rights to Hidden by Miriam Halahmy in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Urbane Publications has signed The Huntingfield Paintress, the debut novel by writer Pamela Holmes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Theodore Roethke Home museum in Michigan asks owners of hand-numbered copies of Open House to get in touch, for ‘census’ to mark 75th anniversary of poetry collectionGuardian Witness: Do you own any first, signed or otherwise special book editions? Share your pictures and storiesA quest to find... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coronet has bought The Science of Game of Thrones by stand-up comedian Helen Keen. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont Publishing is set to publish two books based on the Halo Xbox video game franchise, after acquiring world rights from Microsoft and game developer 343 Industries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Naughtie signs off his final BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Wednesday with an emotional tribute to his colleagues and listeners. Naughtie is to become Radio 4 special correspondent and books editor after 21 years of stewarding the channel’s flagship news and current affairs showListen to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Entertainment One Licensing (eOne) has signed a slate of new licensing partners for next year’s The BFG film, including manufacturers of clothes, board games and confectionery. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The multi-content subscription service, in beta since 2014, has gone live. It offers tiered access to books, TV/film, music and video games, and has partnerships with such publishers as HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint Fourth Estate has signed My Absolute Darling, a debut novel from American author Gabriel Tallent, after an eight-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A 60-year-old publication will be one of the new kids on the NewFronts block in 2016. Playboy will be among the 37 presenters during the fifth Digital Content NewFronts, where publishers make their case for a slice of the $3 billion digital-video advertising pie. Joining Playboy as first-time... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Page also says publishers must ‘understand mobile’ and put smartphone communication at the centre of thinkingThe chief executive of publisher Faber & Faber has challenged the book publishing industry to respond to the rapid increase in smartphone use, particularly by young... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gollancz is set to publish a sequel to H G Wells’ science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, written by Stephen Baxter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The one-day conference offered an expert lineup of publishers, editors, and agents, who offered professional perspectives on everything from content creation and licensing to doing business in China. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitzi Angel has acquired a biography of eight women who worked in Mecklenburgh Square, London, during the interwar period as her first acquisition for Faber. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AOL has a live-streaming app, too. A couple months after it acquired mobile app maker Kanvas Labs in August, it released an updated version of Kanvas' photo-and-video-sharing app that added live-streaming to rival Twitter's Periscope, Meerkat and Facebook Live. And now it's signed its first... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere has acquired two psychological thrillers from Clare Mackintosh, author of the bestselling I Let You Go. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michel Faber has won the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year award for The Book of Strange New Things (Hogarth). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber has signed Content Provider, a new book from award-winning comedian and writer Stewart Lee. Content Provider will feature a selection of Lee's columns and articles with annotations, foot-notes and some new material. It will published in August 2016. Publishing director, Hannah Griffiths,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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