FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award shortlist revealed

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'

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Leipzig Book Fair Prize: Where Are the Women?

Winners of the 2016 Leipzig Book Fair Prize were announced from a pool of over 400 new titles and a shortlist dominated, once again, by men. The post Leipzig Book Fair Prize: Where Are the Women? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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New Richard Adams picture book with Oneworld

Watership Down author Richard Adams has written a picture book about a dragon made out of old egg cartons, according to the Independent. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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'Fantastic Beasts': From Book to Film and Back Again

Warner Bros. Consumer Products has announced its global publishing licensees for the November 18, 2016, feature film release 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,' and its sequels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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International Hot Book Properties, Week of March 21, 2016

Among the titles heating up on the global publishing scene are the first book in a French series about two rival brothers, and a new novel by one of 'Granta' magazine's best Spanish-language authors under the age of 35. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Hardinge, Cobb, Colfer shortlisted for UKLA

Frances Hardinge, the winner of the 2016 Costa prize, is shortlisted for this year’s UKLA Book Awards, the only children’s book prize judged by teachers, along with authors such as Rebecca Cobb and Eoin Colfer. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Porter and Sahota on shortlist for £30k Dylan Thomas Prize

Books by Granta's Max Porter, Sunjeev Sahota and Andrew McMillan have been shortlisted for the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Witi Ihimaera, Charlotte Grimshaw and Bill Manhire on board for Marlborough Book Festival

Three award-winning New Zealand authors are travelling to Marlborough in July for the region's third annual book festival. Continue reading at Stuff

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'Read wisely,' Sceptre urges as it marks 30th year

Hodder & Stoughton literary imprint Sceptre will mark its 30th anniversary this year with a series of events and promotions, branded with a motto that says "Read wisely. Read Sceptre." Continue reading at The Bookseller

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The Untold Life Stories of Buddhist Nuns Revealed

Foreign affairs journalist Christine Toomey traveled 60,000 miles investigating the stories and wisdom of women dedicated to the Buddhist tradition in her book ‘In Search of Buddha’s Daughters.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Comedian Joe Lycett's book to Hodder

Hodder & Stoughton is to publish comedian Joe Lycett's first book, Parsnips: Buttered. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Quentin Blake in HCCB picture book collaboration

HarperCollins Children’s Books is to publish a picture book by Sir Quentin Blake and Emma Chichester Clarke in a “landmark acquisition”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Europa to publish Ferrante children's book

Europa Editions is to publish a children’s book by Elena Ferrante titled The Beach at Night. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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APS Awards triumph for OUP, John Smith and Blackwell’s

Blackwell’s, Oxford University Press and JS Group were all honoured at the annual Academic, Professional and Specialist Awards, held at Wotton House in Surrey last night (17th March). Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Hill: 2016 to be 'tough' year for CUP Academic

Mandy Hill, m.d. of the academic publishing division at Cambridge University Press, has said 2016 "is going to end for us as a very tough year", with the business facing "big internal changes which will result in reduced output". Continue reading at The Bookseller

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PLA 2016: How We Need Diverse Books is Working With Libraries

Librarians have been big supporters of the We Need Diverse Books movement, and that support is only growing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Quarto achieves 'most profitable year' as Chadwick steps down

The Quarto Group has seen its "most profitable year ever", the company said, while announcing its chairman Tim Chadwick has decided to step down from the board. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Book Deals: Week of March 21, 2016

Harper lands a Kennedy memoir, Ballantine re-ups historical fiction bestseller C.W. Gortner, SMP buys a recent U.K. bestseller, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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The 2016 NBCC Awards in Photos

Photos from this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards, held March 17 in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Screenwriter wins children's book prize

Screenwriter David Solomons has won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016 with his debut book, about an 11-year-old boy obsessed with comics Continue reading at BBC News

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