Hay Festival is stepping up its security following the attack on Manchester Arena this week. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Here’s our roundup of some of the big stops on the publishing meeting circuit for 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Book conventions are the next level of book fandom and can be really rewarding. Here's why you should go and how to choose the right one for you. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-12-31 11:33:44 UTC ]
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THIS NOVEMBER, the PDX Book Festival took place in Portland, Oregon. The annual one-day event always includes some of the best contemporary writers, and many of the best contemporary writers are queer. (We are good artists.) This year, the festival included over 100 authors participating in... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-22 20:00:19 UTC ]
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The Primadonna Festival will return in 2020 as a Community Interest Company (CIC), with a £20,000 crowdfunder launching, and writer Catherine Riley taking on the role of full-time general manager. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-20 04:55:31 UTC ]
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This isn’t the most cheerful December I can remember, so I’ve been searching for positives and found myself reflecting on a most wonderful festival I went to last summer. The Primadonna Festival of great writing, ideas and creativity, co-founded by 18 amazing women, had its début in August in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-19 20:09:52 UTC ]
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Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Picador) has re-claimed the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one, topping the chart for the first time since its launch week in October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-19 16:49:58 UTC ]
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Bertrams has unveiled its Christmas campaign, with the tagline "Believe in Books" as the wholesaler heads into the festive trading period. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-16 14:27:10 UTC ]
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To mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited (Penguin), the newly unveiled The Brideshead Festival will "celebrate and interrogate the ongoing appeal of this seminal novel and its screen adaptations", masterminded by former HarperCollins c.e.o.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-15 23:13:15 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has acquired an "uplifting" tale, about a kind-hearted Christmas monster, from Giraffes Can’t Dance author Giles Andreae with illustrations from Nikki Dyson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-11 17:33:58 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books has bought three full-colour gift titles written and illustrated by Alex T Smith. Editorial director Gaby Morgan bought world rights in all languages from Alison Eldred at Arena Illustration. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-09 21:23:43 UTC ]
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Oneworld is to publish nine stories by Marcel Proust for the first time in English. The stories in collection The Mysterious Correspondent were never published in Proust's lifetime. They were uncovered by scholar and publisher Bernard de Fallois, who previously identified Proust’s posthumously... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-09 15:21:22 UTC ]
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Roland Gulliver, associate director at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, is to step down from the post in February 2020, after 13 years with EIBF. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 11:36:11 UTC ]
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Journalist and activist Anita Sethi is founding the I Belong Here foundation to help marginalised groups find a voice through writing—including proposing a ‘Ministry of Stories’-inspired "house of stories of the North" in her old childhood home in inner-city Manchester. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-05 18:15:38 UTC ]
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Profile Books and the Wellcome Collection will publish Elif Shafak’s manifesto offering “a rallying cry for hopefulness”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 02:43:46 UTC ]
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Grand Marais, Minn., held its third North Shore Readers & Writers Festival early last month, attracting literary types from across the state. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Wolf, Shazia Mirza, Scarlett Curtis, Sandi Toksvig and Mary Robinson will headline the 10th Women of the World (WOW) Festival in London in March 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-29 02:55:25 UTC ]
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A back-end upgrade of its systems has seen Manchester University Press nominated for a UX award in esteemed company—its c.e.o. explains the logic behind it. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 01:42:18 UTC ]
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Author Nikesh Shukla will join broadcaster Kirsty Wark to headline the inaugural Paisley Book Festival in February 2020, with contributions also coming from Emma Jane Unsworth and the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 15:25:12 UTC ]
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Hilary Mantel is appearing at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on 6th March to promote her third novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light (4th Estate). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-26 03:34:10 UTC ]
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Bookouture has signed new contracts with two of its bestselling authors, striking a two-book deal with K L Slater and and securing three more psychological thrillers from Samantha Hayes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-22 04:40:39 UTC ]
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