Former winner Rothschild heads strong Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse shortlist

Hannah Rothschild has a chance to become the second two-time winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-27 21:51:33 UTC ]
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Herron, Askew and Mukjerjee among shortlisted writers for 2020's CWA Dagger Awards

The 2020 Crime Writer's Association Dagger Awards shortlist has been announced, with Mick Herron's Joe Country (John Murray), Claire Askew's What You Pay For (Hodder & Stoughton) and Abir Mukherjee's Death in the East (Harvill Secker) in contention for the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-06 01:27:54 UTC ]
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Viking signs Pulitzer Prize-winner's 'historic biography' of Malcolm X

Viking has signed an “epic” biography of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, drawing on three decades of author interviews to rewrite much of the known narrative. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-02 21:06:02 UTC ]
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Collins, Nzelu and Lance Black shortlisted for 2020 Polari Prizes

Books by Sara Collins, Okechukwu Nzelu and Dustin Lance Black and Kirsty Logan have been shortlisted for this year's Polari Prizes, celebrating LGBTQ+ literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-30 23:37:08 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus acquires Elodie Harper's Pompeii-inspired trilogy

Head of Zeus will publish the first title in a Pompeii-set trilogy by Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den, in May 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-30 23:12:48 UTC ]
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Teen conservationist McAnulty shortlisted for Wainwright Prize

Teenage conservationist Dara McAnulty and author Jini Reddy are among the writers shortlisted for this year's Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-29 21:04:07 UTC ]
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TikTok Names Sandie Hawkins as Its Head of U.S. Advertising

Sandie Hawkins, a former Adobe executive, joined TikTok as its new advertising chief in the United States. Hawkins, who was named gm of global business solutions for the social video app and parent company ByteDance, previously was vp and head of Americas for Adobe Advertising Cloud and CRO at... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2020-07-28 21:26:52 UTC ]
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Waterstones announces head office redundancies

Waterstones has announced it is making a number of redundancies at its London Piccadilly head office. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-28 20:30:55 UTC ]
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Creative Future names 2020 Writers' Award winners

Grief, male sexuality and the plight of pets in Covid-stricken Wuhan are some of the subjects of the 12 winning entries in the Creative Future Writers’ Award, chosen by judges including author Kerry Hudson and poet Anthony Anaxagorou. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 13:08:30 UTC ]
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Identity-focused work dominates Kraszna-Krausz shortlists

The shortlists for both the Photography and Moving Image Book Awards of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation are this year dominated by the theme of identity.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-24 15:31:14 UTC ]
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Deadpool's animatronic head haunts my dreams

Back in the halcyon days of 2004, I was walking through the exhibition hall of San Diego Comic Con when I spotted a life-size replica of the evil monkey from Family Guy. You know, the one that lives in Chris’ closet and points at him accusingly? I im... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2020-07-24 15:31:02 UTC ]
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Robin Stevens | 'They have been in my head every day, but it feels like the right moment to move on'

Award-winning Robin Stevens reflects on closing her Murder Most Unladylike series with its ninth adventure Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-23 09:20:21 UTC ]
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Sissay, Taddeo and Mendez shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

Lemn Sissay, Lisa Taddeo and Paul Mendez are among the six-strong shortlist for this year's Gordon Burn Prize.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 14:15:36 UTC ]
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Andersen Press among winners at V&A Illustration Awards

Andersen Press and small publisher Design for Today have both released winning books at this year's V&A Illustration Awards.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-20 08:23:27 UTC ]
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Muna Reyal made head of editorial at Chelsea Green

Muna Reyal has been appointed as head of editorial and production at Chelsea Green Publishing.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-19 14:15:06 UTC ]
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Lisa Lucas to Head Pantheon and Schocken Books

Lucas, the executive director of the National Book Foundation, has been named senior v-p and publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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L.A. Times Book Prize Winners Announced

The 40th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced today on Twitter. The prizes are given in 12 categories, and titles from Penguin Random House took home six. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Gill Lewis shortlisted for Little Rebels Award for fifth time

Author Gill Lewis has been shortlisted for a fifth time in the Little Rebels Award's eight-year history for The Closest Thing to Flying (OUP). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 03:33:09 UTC ]
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Deezer launches music pairings for International Booker Prize shortlist

Music streaming service Deezer has partnered with the International Booker Prize to produce a soundtrack for each shortlisted book.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-13 04:08:44 UTC ]
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Virago gets third novel from award-winner Onuzo

Virago has picked up the third novel by Chibundu Onuzo, a “moving, funny and surprising” story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the West African father she never knew. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-12 23:19:09 UTC ]
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Your Francophile kids will want to read the winners of the Prix Albertine Jeunesse.

The Prix Albertine Jeunesse is a prize chosen for children, by children—that is, a reader’s choice award in which people between the ages of three and fourteen vote on their favorite book from a selection of Francophone literature. This award aims to facilitate a cultural exchange as well as... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-08 16:56:26 UTC ]
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