Hazareesingh wins £40k Wolfson History Prize for 'remarkable' Haitian revolutionary book

Sudhir Hazareesingh has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize for Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, with the award clinched for a second year in a row by an Allen Lane title.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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National Book Award finalists are announced

Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, and Katherine Boo all made the cut for final consideration for the award. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Angry Birds launches book app

Rovio, the creator of the hugely popular mobile game Angry Birds, will partner with Cern to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NZ takes centre stage at Frankfurt Book Fair

New Zealand has officially taken centre stage at the world's biggest book fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Book Award finalists include Junot Díaz, Anthony Shadid

Junot Díaz, who was recently named a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, is among the National Book Awards fiction finalists for his short-story collection, "This Is How You Lose Her." Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Pendleton on William Hill Sports Book longlist

Olympic cyclist and "Strictly Come Dancing" contestant Victoria Pendleton's memoir... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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National Book Tokens to launch e-gifting card with Gardners

National Book Tokens is to launch an e-gifting card for digital books with the content to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Frankfurt Book Fair: ‘a new era dawns’

Publishers are looking to move beyond the “smoke screen” of erotica as the Frankfurt... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Wonder Is the Best Kids’ Book of the Year

The book that has moved me most in the past year is Wonder by R.J. Palacio. It’s the fictional story of August Pullman, a 10-year-old with a very different-looking face—the result of a chromosomal abnormality and an illness—and his journey from the nest of homeschooling to the wilds of middle... Continue reading at Slate

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Syrian author shares Pinter prize

Samar Yazbek, whose latest book is an account of the Assad regime written inside Syria, will share the Pen Pinter prize with poet Carol Anne Duffy. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yazbek wins PEN/Pinter International Writer of Courage Award

Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, author of A Woman in the Crossfire (Haus Publishing), has been chosen... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Women's Prize for Fiction to be 'privately funded' for 2013

Individual donors including Christopher Foyle, Joanna Trollope, ebook site Bilbary, Cherie Blair... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Pan Mac wins Total War series

Pan Macmillan has acquired a new adventure series in a joint acquisition with US sister company,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Google, publishers shelve book-scanning suit

Google and major book publishers have settled a lengthy legal battle over digital copyrights, but a bigger dispute still looms with thousands of authors who allege that Google is illegally profiting from their works. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rowling to write more kids' books

Author JK Rowling has promised fans that her next published book will be for children. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google and publishers reach settlement on digitized books case

Publishers can now decide whether Google can digitize out-of-print books still protected by copyright, but does not settle the issue of individual author rights. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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Orion buys book by toddler

Orion has pre-empted a guide to successful parenting written from the point of view of an... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Frankfurt Book Fair: rights preview II

A M Heath is bringing the first novel for 15 years from Charles Palliser, author of The Quincunx... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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New sponsor for Women's Prize confirmed

A new sponsorship deal for the Women's Prize for Fiction, previously the Orange Prize, has... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Google, Association of American Publishers strike deal over book digitization

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced an agreement that marks the end of nearly seven years of litigation, kicked off in 2005, when five members of the organization filed an infringement suit against the online giant. The deal helps bring digitized books and... Continue reading at Engadget

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Bulgarian author wins BBC short story award

Bulgarian author Miroslav Penkov has won the £15,000 BBC International Short Story Award,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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