Gems and Gaffes: Romance Novels 2019–2020

The ecstasy, and occasional agony, of trying to get the historical details right. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-08 05:00:00 UTC ]

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Wilson's next novel to show Tracy Beaker as a mother

Jacqueline Wilson has written a new Tracy Beaker novel, this time showing Beaker as a mother with a child of her own. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mother's Day: consumers back alcohol, romance and cookery books

Books about alcohol, romance and cooking are among those winning the consumers’ buck for Mother’s Day gifts in the run up to the event on Sunday. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stimson's first domestic noir novel to Avon

HarperCollins imprint Avon will publish the first crime novel from women’s fiction author Tess Stimson featuring themes of gaslighting, domestic violence and postnatal depression. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zephyr buys Tania Unsworth mermaid novel

Fiona Kennedy, publisher at Head of Zeus’s children’s imprint Zephyr, has bought the new novel by Tania Unsworth, titled The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was A Mermaid. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Atkins wins Romantic Novel of the Year accolade

Dani Atkins has won the Romantic Novelists' Association's highest accolade, The Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year, for her novel This Love (Simon & Schuster). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S UK snaps up speculative novel from Sweden's Stålenhag

Simon & Schuster UK will publish a “lavishly illustrated” speculative novel by cult Swedish author Simon Stålenhag. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV series for Terry Pratchett's City Watch novels

Terry Pratchett's City Watch series, an eight-strong subset of the late author's 41 Discworld books, is being adapted by BBC Studios for a new television series called "The Watch". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N Will Open Five Prototype Stores in Fiscal 2019

The new stores will average about 14,000 sq. ft., making them roughly 12,000 sq. ft. smaller than the chain's current stores. The first prototype location is set to open in New Jersey in late summer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naval Institute Press Navigates to Graphic Novels

The publishing unit of the nonprofit U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis will add graphic novels and nonfiction later this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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10 Essential Native American Novels

Brandon Hobson, author of 'Where the Dead Sit Talking,' picks novels by James Welch, Louise Erdrich, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Melvin Burgess pens new YA novel

Melvin Burgess is set to release a YA novel about a girl who discovers she has the powers of a witch this August. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Graham Norton’s next Hodder novel is 'brilliantly foreboding'

Comedian and presenter Graham Norton is publishing a new novel with Hodder entitled A Keeper. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH Children’s buys Soviet spy novel in translation

PRH Children’s has acquired one of the winning titles from last year’s In Other Words programme, organised by BookTrust to promote children’s literature from outside the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women better represented in Victorian novels than modern, finds study

Analysis finds proportion of female authors and characters fell after 19th century, with male authors remaining ‘remarkably resistant’ to writing women Women in novels have tended to “feel”, while men “get”; women smile or laugh, while men grin or chuckle. An analysis of more than 100,000 novels... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A painful coming-of-age debut novel of a gay teen whose family is sundered by suicide

There was a prickly if fleeting moment in last month’s Grammy Awards telecast during the “In Memoriam” segment that honored Chester Bennington, the late Linkin Park frontman and father of six, who took his own life last July. Moments after Bennington’s face faded from the screen, the rapper Logic... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Electric' historical fiction wins Caledonia Novel Award

Scottish novelist Elizabeth Macneal has won this year’s Caledonia Novel Award for her "masterful" historical fiction debut, The Doll Factory, set in Victorian London. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prize for thriller novels without female victims draws mixed reactions

One female writer is setting up a book prize to reward the best crime novel in which no woman is the victim. Some – inspired by the #MeToo movement – are happy with the initiative, others fear it fails to address tough, real life issues.  Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jacaranda pledges to publish 20 black British writers in 2020

Jacaranda Books, in partnership with Words of Colour Productions, has launched an initiative to publish 20 Black British writers in the year 2020 across adult fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion pre-empts Chbosky's second novel within 24-hours

Orion has pre-empted a new novel from Hollywood director, screenwriter and author Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend, for a "significant" six-figure sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Samantha Harvey | 'I try to do something formally different with each novel'

Samantha Harvey's fourth novel is, broadly speaking, a medieval murder mystery - but one with one important, and defining, difference. Alice O'Keeffe reports. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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