Corsair is publishing a new novel this year by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan called Manhattan Beach. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Monique Roffey has won the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year award for her “utterly original” sixth novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story, published by independent Peepal Tree Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 22:02:30 UTC ]
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Roffey's book, based on a Taino legend, is set in 1976 on the Caribbean island of Black Conch. Tessa Sheridan has won the Short Story Award. The post Monique Roffey Wins the UK’s Costa 2020 Book of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-01-26 21:18:00 UTC ]
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Broadcaster James Naughtie will chair the 30th Forward Prizes jury where he will be joined by Leontia Flynn, Pascale Petit and Shivanee Ramlochan alongside critic Tristram Fane Saunders. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 18:12:12 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan's sustainability imprint One Boat has triumphed in a nine-publisher auction for A Bigger Picture, billed as “part rousing manifesto, part poignant memoir” from Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-24 15:12:29 UTC ]
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A record nine debut writers have made the longlist for the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, including Raven Leilani, Naoise Dolan and Gabriel Krauze. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 15:36:22 UTC ]
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Author Nell Stevens will chair this year's £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize judging panel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 04:32:47 UTC ]
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More than half of the titles in the running for the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 are published by independent presses, while the 20-strong longlist also features Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning debut Shuggie Bain (Picador). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 02:47:22 UTC ]
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Tributes have been paid to award-winning novelist, poet and pathologist David Wheldon following his unexpected death at the age of 70. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 07:06:47 UTC ]
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In a ruling last week, a federal judge said he will allow the former Trump National Security Advisor to conduct discovery on whether Trump administration officials acted in bad faith in holding up the pre-publication review of Bolton's memoir 'The Room Where It Happened.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Earlier this year, we learned of the founding of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is the first English-language literary award to celebrate excellence in fiction by women writers in the United States and Canada. And today, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction announced that it has... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 17:54:45 UTC ]
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Based on Joanna Rakoff's memoir of working for JD Salinger's agent, the film lacks some of the wit but none of the heart of Joanna's story. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2021-01-13 01:19:06 UTC ]
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Three biographies published by Penguin Random House, including ones of poet Sylvia Plath and Haitian general Toussaint Louverture, are competing on the five-strong shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 05:51:35 UTC ]
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Piatkus Fiction has won a "laugh-out-loud funny" romance from debut author Jean Meltzer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 02:20:28 UTC ]
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The National Book Award recipient plumbed the natural world for its wisdom, exploring the Arctic tundra, the Antarctic waters and the spaces in between. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-30 17:34:15 UTC ]
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Kim Cattrall has rounded off the second series of the "Women's Prize Podcast", picking books by Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood among her top titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 18:58:43 UTC ]
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Virago has acquired a Millennial vampire tale—Claire Kohda's debut novel Woman, Eating— in a six-way publisher auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 23:41:35 UTC ]
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Miranda Jewess, senior commissioning editor at Serpent's Tail imprint Viper, has acquired The Last Thing He Told Me by US author Laura Dave after a four-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 18:47:13 UTC ]
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The judging panel for the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021, to be chaired by scholar Hermione Lee, has been unveiled. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 03:14:31 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape has won a 10-publisher auction for Fire Rush, the “phenomenal” debut novel by Jacqueline Crooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 10:11:08 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate has triumphed in a four-way publisher auction for Daphne Palasi Andreades’ “evocative and original” debut novel Brown Girls in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 17:18:36 UTC ]
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