Returning for its first in-person spring event since 2019, the Hay Festival programme will feature more than 600 award-winning writers, global policy makers, pioneers and innovators in conversations, performances and debates.The British Council is supporting a series of seven events at the festival, including a gala poetry reading event 'A Poet for Every Day of the Year', with speakers Stephen Fry, Inua Ellams, Allie Esiri, Theresa Lola, Damian Lewis, Lesley Sharp and Lemn Sissay.Other events include novelist and Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, authors Laura Bates and Laurie Penny discussing women, misogyny and power, Welsh writer, poet and playwright Eric Ngalle Charles, bestselling author of Brick Lane, Monica Ali on her new novel Love Marriage, author Okechukwu Nzelu on his new novel about two gay British-Nigerian friends Here Again Now and Mexican author Fernanda Melchor kicking off a new international series of events in partnership with the Hay Festival, Imagine Equity. How to watch The events will be available to watch online from the 7th June for 2 weeks free of charge on the Hay Festival’s website.The events in our series are selected from the Hay Festival programme for adults. To see Hay's programme for children and young people, please see here. Programme Eric Ngalle CharlesHOMELANDSIn this interactive event, Eric Ngalle Charles shares stories on place, memory and language inspired by his debut poetry collection Homelands. Pupils are encouraged to... Continue reading at 'British Council global'
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Zen teacher and bestselling author of ‘Writing Down the Bones’ Natalie Goldberg explores how being diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia led to an acceptance of suffering that not only changed how she wrote, but also her approach to survival. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon and bestselling author, has been named chief executive of a venture sponsored by Amazon.com Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. that aims to bring down those three firms’ healthcare costs. The companies announced the appointment... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former President Obama is out of office but he’s keeping up on politics and social issues with the books he’s reading. Obama shared a list of books he's been reading on Facebook on Saturday. The list is long on intellectual nonfiction and short on anything that could be described as a beach read.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books have been saving Steff Green since she was a child growing up in central Hawke's Bay. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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FaithWords nabs a new book by the bestselling author of '90 Minutes in Heaven’ Don Piper; Barbour takes a modernized version of the biblical story of Ruth, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There’s A Pig Up My Nose by John Dougherty and Laura Hughes (Egmont) has won the Oscar’s Book Prize 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five picture books published by Hodder Children’s Books, Egmont, Flying Eye Books, HarperCollins Children’s Books and Nosy Crow are in the running for this year’s £5,000 Oscar’s Book Prize, organised by the Evening Standard. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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These days, it is normal for authors to go to writing workshops – or teach them. So why does the idea they produce derivative writers persist?What makes a writer? How do you become one? When I was younger, even asking those questions seemed to disqualify me: a writer isn’t something one becomes,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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US author Angie Thomas has been crowned the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2018 for her debut YA novel, The Hate U Give (Walker Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give is this year's recipient of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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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Jack Deere, once a bestselling author and popular preacher, spent 20 years struggling with his son’s death and his wife's alcoholism before re-emerging with a story of divine grace. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Titles by Matt Carr, Lisa Thompson and Alice Broadway are on the shortlist for this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, meaning Scholastic has more books in the running than any other publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In France, a new exhibition on Arab comics launches at the Angoulême Comics Festival. And in the States, Scholastic's new nonfiction imprint will tackle history and social issues for children. The post Industry Notes: Angoulême Focus on Arab Comics; Scholastic’s New Nonfiction Imprint appeared... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agency Aitken Alexander Associates is to create a new scholarship in Creative Writing for students at Birkbeck, University of London, in a bid to "find and nurture" literary talent from groups underrepresented in publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the third year in a row, the bestselling author is giving holiday bonuses to indie booksellers. This year he sent checks ranging from $750 to $1,250 to booksellers and bookstore owners around the country. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The latest title by the bestselling author of ‘Zealot’ Reza Aslan, and a memoir from the "Chewbacca mom" made famous through a Facebook Live video, are among the biggest religion and spirituality books coming out in November. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling author and family physician Joel Fuhrman calls on Americans to give up fast food and processed food, as he lays out the benefits of a nutrient-dense, plant-rich, or nutritarian, diet, which can reverse heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can chronic pain be caused by such things as childhood adversity, repressed anger and unchecked stress as opposed to a structural abnormality? Dr. John Sarno, the bestselling author and longtime rehabilitation specialist who died in June at 93, had long posited this kind of mind-body connection.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Matthew Todd, Bantam author and award-winning editorial director of gay magazine Attitude, is among the six authors shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, awarded annually to a writer whose first book (whether poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction) explores what it is to be LGBT. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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