Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widow’s Wishes

Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husband’s literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled “Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.” Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2021-02-04 10:00:17 UTC ]
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Sceptre sews up deal for Hunter's Mary Queen of Scots biography

Sceptre has picked up an alternative biography of Mary, Queen of Scots from Threads of Life (Sceptre) author Clare Hunter in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 13:39:10 UTC ]
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Puffin to publish Stocker's picture book biography of Glennie

Puffin has acquired Listen, a picture book biography written by Shannon Stocker and illustrated by Devon Holzwarth, which tells the story of deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-22 12:13:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins scoops Smith's Harry Styles biography

HarperNonFiction Publishers has acquired Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man by celebrity biographer Sean Smith. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-01 12:48:18 UTC ]
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Prince Harry Makes Major Announcement About Proceeds From His Book Deal

The Duke of Sussex's news coincided with his first public appearance in the U.S. since the birth of his daughter, Lilibet. Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2021-08-20 15:50:27 UTC ]
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Nine Eight to publish Bickerdike's 'timely, kaleidoscopic' Britney biography

Nine Eight, Bonnier Books UK's new music imprint, will publish Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike in November 2021, the first book to provide a "sympathetic yet objective re-examination of Britney Spears' cultural impact".  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-19 02:29:30 UTC ]
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Giannis is the king of the court. In a new biography, he’s also a humble soul.

Mirin Fader’s ‘Giannis’ arrives on the heels of Milwaukee’s improbable NBA championship win. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Lauren Child | 'It felt like a time to write about what we wish for'

Lauren Child's latest story focuses on Christmas in a Clarice Bean story that is full of empathy and hope Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-17 02:08:43 UTC ]
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Philip Roth Biography Finds a New Publisher

Skyhorse said it would release the paperback and digital versions of the book, which had been taken out of print following sexual assault allegations against its author, Blake Bailey. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-05-17 17:32:51 UTC ]
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The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same

Blake Bailey’s precipitous fall is proof that publishers can no longer ignore their authors’ behavior. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-04-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Norton Halts Shipments of Blake Bailey's Roth Biography

Norton has temporarily halted the shipment and promotion of Blake Bailey's 'Philip Roth: The Biography' following allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against the author by a number of women. On Monday, Bailey’s literary agency, the Story Factory, dropped the author when those allegations... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us.

Sure, books like “The Hill We Climb,” “Poems of Healing” and “How to Heal the World” mean well, but recovery on command is tricky. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-04-14 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Prince Philip biography brought forward by Mardle

New Ad Lib imprint Mardle Books is bringing forward the release of Prince Philip's Century by royal commentator Robert Jobson following the Duke of Edinburgh's death last week. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-14 02:22:15 UTC ]
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20 Biography Books For Kids To Help Them Dream Big

A collection of the best biography books for kids to help them learn about history’s most fascinating people and dream a bit bigger, including Turning Pages: My Life Story by Sonya Sotomayor, illustrated by Lulu Delacre. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2021-02-26 11:34:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane wins four-way auction for Baker's group biography

Allen Lane has won a four-way auction for a “vivid and unexpected” group biography of four creative pioneers by Harriet Baker. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-14 19:57:05 UTC ]
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Miramax snaps up TV rights in forthcoming Rosenberg biography

TV rights for historian Anne Sebba’s biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the only woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder, have been snapped up by Miramax Films.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 12:16:20 UTC ]
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Hodder scoops biography of Silicon Valley investor Masayoshi Son

Hodder & Stoughton is publishing the first English-language biography of Silicon Valley investor and SoftBank c.e.o. Masayoshi Son in June.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-19 08:08:50 UTC ]
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Plath and Louverture biographies compete for Slightly Foxed Prize

Three biographies published by Penguin Random House, including ones of poet Sylvia Plath and Haitian general Toussaint Louverture, are competing on the five-strong shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 05:51:35 UTC ]
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Chatto scores biography of Vaughan Williams song

Chatto & Windus has scored The Captain’s Apprentice: Biography of a Song by Caroline Davison, to publish for the 150th anniversary of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 02:19:34 UTC ]
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Christopher Hitchens’s backlist is getting a cool new redesign.

If you love a) a good set and b) a pugnacious critic, then you’re in luck. Nearly ten years after the death of Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Books is releasing new mass-market paperback editions of 12 of his books, redesigned by Nathan Burton and art directed by Richard Evans. (I don’t know... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-12-17 14:22:23 UTC ]
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Lady Anne Dodd pens biography of late husband Ken Dodd

Great Northern Books will publish The Squire of Knotty Ash… and his Lady, an "intimate" biography of the late Sir Ken Dodd by Lady Anne Dodd and biographer and TV producer Tony Nicholson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-06 15:04:40 UTC ]
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