Gangster novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Jennifer Egan

Corsair is publishing a new novel this year by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan called Manhattan Beach.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Goldsboro Books launches contemporary fiction prize

Goldsboro Books has launched a new £2,000 prize for “compelling” contemporary fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ali Smith longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize 2017

Ali Smith has been longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 for the first in her Seasonal four-part series, Autumn (Hamish Hamilton).  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Joey Barton wins Cross Sports' Autobiography of the Year award

Footballer Joey Barton has won the Cross Sports Book Award for autobiography of the year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie House Rides the Pulitzer Wave

Seattle-based poetry publisher Wave Books is seeing a surge of interest after one of its titles, 'Olio' by Tyehimba Jess, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chris Haughton wins CBI Book of the Year Award

Picturebook maker Chris Haughton has won the 27th Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award for his "captivating" book Goodnight Everyone (Walker Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alan Johnson among judges of £40k David Cohen Prize

Labour politician Alan Johnson, professor Simon James of Durham University and journalist, critic and writer Anita Sethi are some of the names who will judge the £40,000 David Cohen Prize for Literature 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stevens and Mason win inaugural kids awards at CrimeFest

Robin Stevens and Simon Mason have won the inaugural awards for Best Crime Novel for Children and Young Adults respectively at the annual CrimeFest Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Accent's Kate Field wins Joan Hessayon Award

Kate Field has won the Romantic Novelists Association's Joan Hessayon Award for new writers with her debut novel The Magic of Ramblings (Accent Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Nixon in China’ Historian Margaret MacMillan Named To Chair Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize

In 'formulating questions and providing warnings,' Canadian author Margaret MacMillan's work embodies the importance of history in today's political moment. The post ‘Nixon in China’ Historian Margaret MacMillan Named To Chair Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OUP and Blackwell's win at Academic Trade Conference awards

Oxford University Press has been crowned Publisher of the Year once again at the Academic Book Trade Conference awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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$75k Cundill History Prize relaunched

Canada’s McGill University is re-launching the US $75,000 Cundill History Prize to highlight history writing as a way to illuminate the truth at a time when informed, factual debate is “increasingly losing out to populism and retrenchment is on the rise”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published debut on Betty Trask Prize shortlist

The Society of Authors has announced its shortlist for this year’s £10,000 Betty Trask Prize - including for the first time a self-published novel, Speak its Name by Kathleen Jowitt.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McGill Relaunching the Cundill Prize

McGill University is relaunching its Cundhill History Prize, which recognizes "the best history writing in English," in its 10th anniversary year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hay House UK wins Bernstein's self-help book after five-way auction

Hay House UK has won the rights to publish Gabrielle Bernstein’s new book The Judgement Detox after a “heated” five-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus lands two on Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize shortlist

Head of Zeus has two books shortlisted for the £10,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indigo Dreams wins Most Innovative Publisher at Saboteur Awards

Dead Ink’s email-based novella The Night Visitors and poet Hollie McNish have both been honoured at the Saboteur Awards this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cornerstone wins 'Book of the Year' in hotly-contested auction

In a "hotly contested" auction, Cornerstone has acquired a book of strange-but-true trivia authored by the "QI elves" behind weekly podcast "No Such Thing As A Fish". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oneworld Piles Up the Wins

The U.K. indie publisher, founded by a young married couple in a kitchen in Cyprus three decades ago, only began releasing fiction only in 2009. Since then, it's won two Man Booker Prizes. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kathleen Jamie wins RGS's Ness Award

Scottish poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie is to receive the 2017 Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award for "outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan and Waterstones take top prizes at the British Book Awards

Pan Macmillan and Waterstones are two of the biggest winners at this year's British Book Awards, aka The Nibbies, after being crowned Publisher of the Year and Book Retailer of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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