Lit Hub is excited to announce the shortlist for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. This year’s judging panel included Tommy Orange, Emma Straub, Monique Truong, Maaza Mengiste, and Claire Messud. They are: De’Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills Chia-Chia Lin, The Unpassing Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-26 13:59:29 UTC ]
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Fleet has acquired American author Claire Messud’s new novel The Burning Girl, to publish in September 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline imprint Tinder Press is publishing a new novel by Sarah Winman in July this year, Tin Man. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate is to publish the debut novel from US writer Zinzi Clemmons entitled What We Lose. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones' 2016 Book of the Year, The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, has been longlisted for the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Goldsmiths Prize-winning Solar Bones by Mike McCormack. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Retailers blame the presidential campaign and postelection anxiety for the year ending on a flat note, but some categories are growing in the book trade and in the comics shop market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Salman Rushdie is publishing a new novel, The Golden House, with Vintage imprint Jonathan Cape in September. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion has acquired the "laugh-out-loud" debut of freelance journalist Lucy Vine, Hot Mess, said to reinvent the heroine who represents "every 'single girl'" - a new Bridget Jones. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Camille Whitcher, a 2016 graduate of the Cambridge School of Arts Illustration MA, has won the 2017 Children’s Picture Book Prize, organised by the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Brighton-based indie publisher Salariya Book Company Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welsh independent publisher Firefly Press has bought a new YA novel by Rhian Ivory. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'The day that Indigo opened, our business went down 40 percent,' says bookseller Oscar Malan. Sixteen years later, the big-chain store would leave. The post Kingston’s Novel Idea: A Bookstore-Survivor in Canada appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Costa prize-winning author Andrew Michael Hurley’s new novel Devil’s Day is publishing this October with John Murray. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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TV presenter Claudia Winkleman is to join author Cathy Rentzenbrink and Amazon's director of books, Dan Mucha, on the judging panel for children's book award Oscar’s Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sceptre is publishing new novel by South African author Kopano Matlwa exploring issues of race, poverty and gender. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent is among the dozen books longlisted for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The UK’s answer to the Nobel Prize for Literature – the £40,000 David Cohen Prize - is now being managed by New Writing North. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the first time in the nearly 25-year history of the PW Bookstore of the Year Awards, a children’s only bookstore, Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, was named one of five finalists. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A mobile reading app that offers short original serialized fiction, Radish has raised $3 million seed money from Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and publishing industry investments. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Statistics from BookNet Canada reveal the best-selling books of 2016, along with a stable Canadian book market and growing online book sales. The post BookNet Canada’s 2016 Snapshot: Nonfiction Lags Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Man Booker Prize is unaffected by Tesco’s merger with The Booker Group, its organisers have clarified. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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