Dunmore wins poetry category, while Jon McGregor takes best novel prize for Reservoir 13 and Gail Honeyman’s bestselling debut Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine lands first novel awardThe poet Helen Dunmore is in the running to become the second posthumous winner of the Costa book of the year award for her final collection, Inside the Wave – which was written in the last weeks of her life – triumphing in the poetry category of the annual literary prize.Expressly rewarding enjoyability, the Costa book awards are open only to writers in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories – novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children’s book – with the winner of each then vying for the overall £30,000 book of the year prize. If she wins this, Dunmore will be the second writer to take the top gong posthumously in the prize’s 46-year history, after fellow poet Ted Hughes won for Birthday Letters in 1998. Related: Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore – generous and contemplative Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An army of caterpillars and a troop of monkeys also help US children's illustrator Lane Smith win a top book award. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2017-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2017 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been awarded to a U.S. author and illustrator for the first time. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Historian John Bew has won the £3,000 Orwell Prize for Books 2017 for his biography of former Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, published by riverrun/Quercus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British-born translator Jessica Cohen and Israeli author David Grossman share the £50,000 Man Booker International purse for 'A Horse Walks Into a Bar.' The post Author David Grossman and Translator Jessica Cohen Win the 2017 Man Booker International Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Israeli writer David Grossman's A Horse Walks Into a Bar, translated by Jessica Cohen and published by Jonathan Cape, has won this year's Man Booker International Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Morpurgo has won the overall Children’s Book Award for a record-breaking fourth time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pottermore has launched an official art collection, with a selection of posters and mounted prints inspired by the Harry Potter stories (Bloomsbury) by J K Rowling. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired two books by poet Claire Askew, winner of the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Prize, following a four-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Alderman has won the £30,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her feminist science fiction novel The Power (Viking). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blink Publishing has signed the first full autobiography from British racing driver Jenson Button. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Benedicte Page looks at what the political parties are offering the publishing industry ahead of the general election. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to The Bookseller’s online survey of the trade, 64.1% intend to vote for Jeremy Corbyn’s party at the polls next Thursday (8th June), while 15.7% will put a cross in the box of the Liberal Democrats, with the Conservative Party coming a close third on 13.1%. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At today’s Children’s Book & Author Breakfast, two bookstores—the Bookworm of Edwards in Edwards, Colo., and Children’s Book World in Los Angeles—will receive the 2017 WNBA Pannell Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An account of a young woman’s experience of anorexia while at Oxford University has been honoured by the New Welsh Writing Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kit de Waal has won the €15,000 (£13,100) Kerry Group Irish Book of the Year for her "heartfelt and far-sighted" fiction work My Name is Leon (Viking). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon Sebag Montefiore has been awarded the €20,000 Literary Prize Lupicaia del Terriccio 2017 for his book The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut thriller writer Joseph Knox, crime buyer for Waterstones, has been nominated for this year's The Times Breakthrough Award, in the Literature category for his debut Sirens (Transworld). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo will honor PEN America with its seventh annual Industry Ambassador Award, which recognizes major innovators and creative leaders that make the book industry better, on June 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Williams, a doctoral candidate researching design ethics at Oxford University and former Google employee, has won the inaugural $100,000 (£77,730) Nine Dots Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Even bestsellers like J K Rowling and Paula Hawkins can’t escape the shadow of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from beyond the grave. Kiera O’Brien reports. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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