Headline has signed The Letter, a debut novel by Kathryn Hughes which hit number one on the Amazon Kindle chart as a self-published ebook. The Letter, which tells the story of two women whose lives become entwined when one discovers a letter that was written in 1939 but never sent, was originally published via Matador. It spent over 130 days in the Kindle top 100 and has garnered almost 2,000 Kindle reader reviews. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Headline is launching new editions of its five Neil Gaiman novels, Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, this spring. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 06:20:37 UTC ]
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More than 250 members of the literary community signed a letter this week urging publishers not to sign book deals with anyone in the Trump administration. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-15 19:12:33 UTC ]
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Usborne author PG Bell, creator of the children’s book series The Train to Impossible Places, has partnered with the National Literacy Trust and The Postal Museum on a letter writing project inviting children to share their experiences of the pandemic with future generations. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 22:56:51 UTC ]
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Firefly Press has acquired book blogger and school librarian Jo Clarke's debut, middle-grade detective story Libby and the Parisian Puzzle, set in a school that travels the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 10:37:54 UTC ]
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Headline Publishing Group has acquired The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, a "bold, swoon-worthy and utterly modern" debut novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 23:10:10 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Continuum has acquired When America Stopped Being Great by BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 12:55:05 UTC ]
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Pavilion has snapped up the “joyful” new book by pastry chef and “Junior Bake Off” judge Ravneet Gill. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 23:44:38 UTC ]
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Aged 15 I got a Christmas job at my local bookshop in Battersea so I could save to go interrailing. My parents’ bookshelves were brimming with mostly Black writers: Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Chester Himes, Terry McMillan, and I was surrounded by ‘consciousness’... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-30 21:25:59 UTC ]
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At the end of 2020, sorting through my papers was a welcome reminder of the joys of a literary life Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-30 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has snapped up two new picture books from author-illustrator Benji Davies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 21:12:01 UTC ]
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Discovered in his attic, the letters in “Love, Kurt” feel both very private and very important. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Noel Bowler photographed some of the largest newsrooms across the world, exploring the physical spaces that house our modern press. With declining readership, reduced advertising and persistent questions about ‘truth’ and relevance of newspapers in the 21st century, the structures of print media... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-30 06:00:50 UTC ]
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Headline Home is publishing a cookbook by chef Raymond Blanc OBE to accompany his new ITV television series focusing on simple recipes for home cooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 20:53:47 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker will publish Small Miracles by Anne Booth, the story of three Catholic nuns who turn to playing the lottery in the hopes of saving their run-down convent. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-22 21:02:53 UTC ]
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Headline has acquired The Mercenary Stream by BBC journalist Nick Higham, telling the story of a centuries-long battle to bring clean water to London. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 23:16:15 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has snapped-up The Hen Weekend, a “killer” new thriller by Lucy Clarke, in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 06:45:52 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape has snapped up an “exquisite” memoir about the challenges facing gay men today from acclaimed poet and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlistee Seán Hewitt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 07:03:12 UTC ]
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Author Shirley Jackson often responded to readers’ letters; this one, written in 1962 after republication of her historical fiction for juveniles, The Witchcraft of Salem Village, seems uncannily prescient for our times. –Laurence Jackson Hyman, editor of the forthcoming The Collected Letters of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-10-30 08:49:48 UTC ]
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Headline has acquired Drama Queen, a "compelling and funny" memoir about autism from comedy writer Sara Gibbs. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 03:20:34 UTC ]
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Headline Review has triumphed in a multi-publisher auction for Isaac and the Egg, a debut novel by journalist Bobby Palmer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-28 08:45:16 UTC ]
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