HarperNorth, the new Manchester-based division of HarperCollins, has signed Melissa Reddy's account of Liverpool FC's 2020 Premiership title win as its first acquisition. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-23 01:52:28 UTC ]
The long run of unit sales of print books posting weekly sales gains over the comparable week in 2020 came to an end last week, with units falling 1.3% compared to the week ending July 11, 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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American author Susan Choi has won the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award with her "luminous" story "Flashlight". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-09 16:07:00 UTC ]
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The top 15 bestsellers last week were all fiction, led by Quentin Tarantino’s 'Once Upon a Time In Hollywood,' which sold more than 48,000 copies in its first week on sale. Overall, unit sales increased 4% over the week ended July 4, 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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ClassFest, a new literature festival showcasing the work of working-class writers, has received £43,000 funding from Arts Council England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-07 10:17:38 UTC ]
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Chef and author Hugh Amano and artist Sarah Becan followup their 2019 comic book cookbook on Ramen, with an equally useful comics guide to the global popularity of dumplings of all kinds—in this case, Asian dumplings. A six-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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While a lot of the usual LBF rights-trading focused on agencies’ and publishers’ own online ‘fairs’, there are a still a number of hot titles around this summer’s digital event Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-03 12:02:21 UTC ]
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The video-sharing social media platform TikTok is not just a place where teens share the latest dance crazes—it’s also proving a driver of book sales, and beyond teen reads too. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-03 06:18:22 UTC ]
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Ali Smith has won the inaugural Pleasure of Reading Prize, in recognition of her body of work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 20:56:05 UTC ]
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Dapo Adeola and Nathan Bryon have won the age three to six category at the UKLA Awards, the annual national book prize judged by teachers, with Look Up! (Puffin). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 18:44:26 UTC ]
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A K Blakemore has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for her "stunning" historical fiction novel The Manningtree Witches (Granta Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:06:17 UTC ]
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Elle McNicoll has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2021 for her debut novel A Kind of Spark (Knights Of). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 15:03:18 UTC ]
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When Trump’s former national security adviser was told his proposed title had a sexual connotation, he reportedly told publishers their minds were "in the gutter." Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2021-06-30 08:23:11 UTC ]
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Kanya D’Almeida has been declared the overall winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for a "captivating" tale set in a Sri Lankan "sanctuary for the forsaken". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 08:05:28 UTC ]
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With Sharjah as London Book Fair’s guest of honour in 2022, the time is nigh – nay, now – for publishers to acquire Arabic titles for translation. But where to start? Unlike other languages such as Korean or Swedish, which have robust agenting infrastructure, very few Arab authors have agents to... Continue reading at British Council global
[ British Council global | 2021-06-29 14:19:46 UTC ]
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He was known for his plain-spoken poems that drew universal meaning from everyday occurrences. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-26 13:51:24 UTC ]
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Julia Donaldson, Sara Ogilvie, Lemn Sissay, Ingrid Persaud and Jasbinder Bilan have won prizes at the Indie Book Awards, held as part of Independent Bookshop Week's celebrations. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-26 13:47:44 UTC ]
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The country legend's deadpan response was too much for "The Tonight Show" host. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2021-06-26 09:56:05 UTC ]
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Ali Smith and Joshua Yaffa have won this year's £3,000 Orwell Prizes for Political Fiction and Political Writing respectively. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-25 03:14:57 UTC ]
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Susanna Clarke, Deepa Anappara and Jordan Ifueko are among the authors shortlisted for this year’s Kitschies, honouring the best in speculative and fantastic fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-24 16:20:24 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury is to publish I Alone Can Fix It, a behind-the-scenes account of former US President Donald Trump’s final year in office, by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-24 12:07:21 UTC ]
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