McFly band member turned children's author Tom Fletcher has claimed a "world first" with a musical edition of his highly successful middle-grade novel The Christmasaurus. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sam Lansky, author of the memoir The Gilded Razor and the West Coast Editor at TIME magazine, will publish a novel in June 2020. Here’s the cover! Lansky’s narrator, Sam, is a writer and recovering addict based in LA in his late 20’s who is on the verge of emotional collapse. He finds himself... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-10-11 14:00:51 UTC ]
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Yesterday, at 12:30am, Gordon Sondland—the US ambassador to the European Union who has emerged as a key character in the ongoing Trump/Ukraine scandal—received a voicemail from an administration official telling him not to appear at a House hearing scheduled for yesterday morning. Sondland duly... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-10-09 12:04:38 UTC ]
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Amazon has launched a child-friendly version of its Kindle ereader -- the Kindle Kids Edition. At $110, this special edition device is slightly more expensive than the cheapest Kindle, but it has one massive advantage that will appeal to parents, kids and others: it is free from ads. But there... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2019-10-07 15:55:49 UTC ]
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Translating one medium into another is tricky. Music is music and art is art and dance is dance; to try to convey the power of another art in fiction is its own sleight-of-hand. My own first novel takes on that challenge. In A Song For A New Day, musician Luce Cannon was on the cusp […] The post... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-10-07 11:00:15 UTC ]
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Scholastic has announced the next instalment in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series will be called The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-03 15:14:24 UTC ]
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Jennifer Howard, Managing Director of Entertainment, Media, and Tech at Facebook, sits down with Ad Age Associate Publisher Heidi Waldusky to discuss how Facebook Watch is changing the way its 140 million daily users consume content—and how marketers can take advantage of it. A custom... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-02 19:52:00 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman officially launched The Secret Commonwealth to huge cheers at a sold-out Alexandra Palace last night, where the author appeared in conversation with journalist Zing Tsjeng on stage after readings from actors including Anne-Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 18:20:42 UTC ]
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Bookshops have revealed their favourite books of 2019 with books by Michelle Obama, Max Porter and Greta Thunberg among the shortlisted titles for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 12:48:18 UTC ]
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David Mitchell read from his new novel at a Sceptre Salon storytelling event last night, which also featured an exclusive extract from Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s highly sought-after "Fleabag" book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 10:01:54 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Children’s will publish five new non-fiction titles in 2020, including three new books in the Fantastically Great Women series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-30 04:13:51 UTC ]
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Yellow Kite has revealed four new titles it has acquired for its 2020 list with a programme that covers the "emotional, physical and spiritual needs of our readers", according to publisher Liz Gough. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-25 19:17:39 UTC ]
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The winners of the Faber Andlyn Prize for undiscovered BAME writers and illustrators have been revealed, with Sarah Christou and Simji Park taking the top illustration gong while the writing award went to Nadia Attia and Ayesha Braganza. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-24 21:43:16 UTC ]
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Adam Mars-Jones has won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Box Hill, his "strangely tragic love story" set in the gay biker community during the late 1970s. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-22 18:21:05 UTC ]
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Monoray is to launch an extensive publicity campaign to promote Jess Phillips MP’s new book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-19 21:53:36 UTC ]
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John Englehardt’s use of the second-person perspective creates an aching immediacy. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-16 17:06:06 UTC ]
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Children's author Anna James will edit the British Library's Christmas collection. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 16:13:19 UTC ]
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Six books are in the running for the £30,000 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, with former winner Raghuram Rajan returning to the shortlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 07:08:32 UTC ]
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Fitzcarraldo Editions has acquired the debut book by Alice Hattrick, combining memoir, medical history and biography to uncover untold case histories of medically unexplained and invisible illness. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-15 13:30:42 UTC ]
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Patti Smith and Liz Phair memoirs, Questlove's cookbook and more highly anticipated music books coming out this fall. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-09-13 18:02:09 UTC ]
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From his refuge in Russia, the wanted spy looks back on the controversy he caused Continue reading at The Economist
[ The Economist | 2019-09-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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