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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Mirror Books makes first fiction acquisition

Trinity Mirror's publishing imprint Mirror Books has acquired three titles in a new crime series by author and playwright Lynn Brittney. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's book marketing competition launches

Children’s book publicists are being called on to submit a low-budget marketing campaign they are proud of to a competition. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's Book Writers society launches BAME scholarship

The Society of Children’s Book Writers (SCBWI) and Illustrators will launch a BAME scholarship sponsored by the Bent Agency. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Airline easyJet launches children's book club

Budget airline easyJet has launched a “flybrary” in its entire UK fleet with 7,000 classic books selected by Jacqueline Wilson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Goldsboro Books unveils £25k new website

Goldsboro Books has invested £25,000 in a new website, offering an expanded range designed to let online visitors feel “as if they are actually visiting our physical bookshop”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Raab and Futter Return, Launch Celadon Books at Macmillan

After departing from Grand Central Publishing earlier this year, Jamie Raab and Deb Futter have resurfaced at Macmillan, where they will launch a new division called Celadon Books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Winkleman to judge Book People's story prize

Claudia Winkleman has been unveiled as the head judge for Book People’s latest Bedtime Story competition with a theme of “friendship”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kings Road launches 'leftfield' non-fiction imprint 535

Kings Road Publishing is launching a new non-fiction imprint this autumn called 535, hoping to turn "leftfield ideas" into bestsellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Radio 2’s Haddow to launch Book Off! podcast

BBC Radio 2 producer Joe Haddow will next week launch a podcast called “Book Off!”, in which authors, comedians and figures from the music and film worlds will argue the case for one book that is of importance to them. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chuck Palahniuk wrote 'Fight Club.' His next work of fiction will be a coloring book

A coloring book may sound tame, but "Legacy: An Off-Color Novella for You to Color," is by Chuck Palahniuk. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pottermore's Wizarding World Book Club launches

Pottermore has launched its Wizarding World Book Club community pages and revealed the first themes up for discussion online. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barbershop Books Gets NBF's $10K Reading Prize

Expanded into a full day conference, the NBF's Why Reading Matters awarded its $10,000 Innovations in Reading Prize to Alvin Irby of Barbership Books and featured a keynote address by novelist and new bookstore owner, Emma Straub. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German Book Trade’s Peace Prize Goes to Canada’s Margaret Atwood

During Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany's publishers and booksellers will honor Margaret Atwood as 'one of the most important storytellers of our era.' The post German Book Trade’s Peace Prize Goes to Canada’s Margaret Atwood appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin House Russian book prize goes to Blakesley

Art historian and curator Rosalind Blakesley has won the fifth annual Pushkin House Russian book prize for her title The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757-1881, published by Yale. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lawrence's Orangeboy scoops YA Book Prize

Patrice Lawrence has won The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize 2017 for her “accomplished” and “page-turning” début novel, contemporary urban thriller Orangeboy (Hodder Children’s Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two Lewis Stemple books longlisted for Wainwright Prize

Nature writer John Lewis-Stempel has doubled his chances of winning the Wainwright Golden Beer Prize after having two of his titles longlisted. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperNonFiction launches book tie-in football podcast

HarperNonFiction has launched an eight-part podcast for a new sports book called The Mixer by journalist Michael Cox. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Alderman to judge Science Book Prize

Novelist Naomi Alderman will join the judging panel for the 30th anniversary of The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women's Prize for Fiction reveals new sponsorship model

The Women's Prize for Fiction has announced it is adopting a new, collective sponsorship model instead of a single headline sponsor going forward. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Ward wins Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize

Lucy Cavendish College, part of the University of Cambridge, has named the 2017 winner of its fiction prize as Sarah Ward, with her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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