The shortlists for both the Photography and Moving Image Book Awards of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation are this year dominated by the theme of identity. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-24 15:31:14 UTC ]
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Teenage conservationist Dara McAnulty and author Jini Reddy are among the writers shortlisted for this year's Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-29 21:04:07 UTC ]
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Many of us enjoy getting lost in historical novels, often set in periods of history when great change was taking place. Contemporary fiction is usually less rooted in a specific time – often focusing on the miniate of human existence or the fallout from smaller, personal events. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-28 18:42:52 UTC ]
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Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love for BBC One and Amazon Studios will star Lily James, Dominic West, Emily Beecham and Andrew Scott, among others. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 16:27:08 UTC ]
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During a 30-minute Zoom press conference on July 22, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle urged the four major publishers suing over the organization’s book scanning efforts to consider settling the dispute in the boardroom, rather than the courtroom. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Lemn Sissay, Lisa Taddeo and Paul Mendez are among the six-strong shortlist for this year's Gordon Burn Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 14:15:36 UTC ]
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The Festival for Working Class Writers is being launched in Bristol next year, hoping to shine a spotlight on authors who organiser Natasha Carthew says are underrepresented at other events. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-20 17:38:05 UTC ]
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Publishers are divided on when staff should return to office buildings, with some back at their desks already but others—including Pearson and Taylor & Francis—planning to keep some staff at home until next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-19 14:53:46 UTC ]
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In new books from Adrian Tomine and Joe Sacco, the range of the graphic novel is on display — from the highly intimate to the world-historical. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-07-17 09:00:18 UTC ]
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Author Gill Lewis has been shortlisted for a fifth time in the Little Rebels Award's eight-year history for The Closest Thing to Flying (OUP). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 03:33:09 UTC ]
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Music streaming service Deezer has partnered with the International Booker Prize to produce a soundtrack for each shortlisted book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-13 04:08:44 UTC ]
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The 2020 campaign to mark National Poetry Day on 1st October will highlight a list of 40 new books focused on poetry participation, including work from Michael Rosen, Inua Ellams and Kate Clanchy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-09 10:54:41 UTC ]
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Novelist H.G. Carrillo, like many authors before him, assumed a fabricated identity. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-06 15:23:46 UTC ]
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Alys Conran and Niall Griffiths are among writers shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award, which includes a new category for children's books for 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-03 06:05:19 UTC ]
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Adjmi was raised in a house where he had no choice but to fit in, which means he had no choice but to lie. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-30 14:49:16 UTC ]
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Verso has two books on the shortlist for the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2020, administered by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-30 00:47:19 UTC ]
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A stalwart quiz book from 2008 was the bestselling Northern-issued title last year, beating off some prize-fighting fiction books Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-25 18:03:17 UTC ]
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Faber is to publish a work showcasing the lyrics, poems and drawings of musician Robert Wyatt and his creative partner and wife, painter and songwriter Alfie Benge. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-24 16:51:44 UTC ]
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Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy has long been one of the great unadaptable science fiction works (read more on that here, along with a catalogue of Asimov’s awful serial harassment of women), but after 50 years, it has finally made it to screens. Starring noted tall man, Lee Pace (along with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-06-23 14:28:10 UTC ]
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Over the past few months, as gyms and yoga studios and fitness centers have remained closed, many of you antsy yogis and barre-enthusiasts and Zumba-addicts have gone back to that most elemental of exercises: the run. For those of us who like to read and run, well, plenty of books on the subject... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-06-23 08:49:25 UTC ]
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