Kidman to adapt Ahern's feminist short stories for TV

Nicole Kidman and the team behind “Big Little Lies” are helping to adapt Cecelia Ahern’s upcoming short story collection into a TV show. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible to produce new anthology as new sponsor for The Sunday Times Short Story Award

Audible has been announced as a new sponsor for, what will now be known as, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Johnson and Jones join BBC Short Story judging panel

Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Daisy Johnson is joining fellow authors Cynan Jones and Richard Beard to judge the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Netflix adapts Dahl's stories for original animated series

Netflix will create an original animated series of Roald Dahl stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and The Twits. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Guy Ware wins 2018's London Short Story Prize

Guy Ware's short story "the year of peace" has been crowned the winner of 2018's London Short Story Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chadwick's debut short story collection to Splice

Birmingham-based small press Splice has acquired world rights to Above the Fat, the début short story collection of Thomas Chadwick. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shortlist announced for FutureBook/Pigeonhole short story competition

Thirty-six short stories were submitted for the first ever FutureBook speculative fiction competition run with digital reading platform the Pigeonhole. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Huge' TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend set for broadcast

The first episode of the My Brilliant Friend TV adaptation will broadcast in the UK on Sky Atlantic on 19th November. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ford takes V S Pritchett Short Story Prize for second time

Writer and translator Emily Ruth Ford has become the first person to win the £1,000 V S Pritchett Short Story Prize twice. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber to bring out previously unpublished Plath short story

Faber is to publish "Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom", a previously unpublished short story written by Sylvia Plath as a college assignment in 1952. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unseen Sylvia Plath short story to be published in January

Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom was written in 1952, when Plath was still a student in the USAn “important” short story written by Sylvia Plath when the poet was 20 years old will be published for the first time in January 2019.Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom, which describes a fateful... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones bookseller shortlisted for V S Pritchett Short Story Prize

A Waterstones bookseller is shortlisted for the V S Pritchett Short Story Prize, along with Early One Morning author Virginia Baily and short story writer Michelle Wright. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paolini pens short story collection set in Alagaësia

Fantasy author Christopher Paolini, the author of the Inheritance Cycle, has written a new collection of short stories set in his mythical world of Alagaësia. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Persaud wins £15k BBC Short Story Award

Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud has won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award for her tale about a man reunited with his absent father through the power of chocolate. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fitzgerald novel Human Voices adapted for TV

HarperCollins has agreed a deal with independent producer Rebecca Gushin to adapt Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald’s Human Voices for television. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish TV star Ryan Tubridy pens Christmas jumper story

Walker Books will next month publish a Christmas story by Irish TV presenter Ryan Tubridy, with illustrations by Chris Judge. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tattooist of Auschwitz to be adapted for 'high-end' TV drama

TV rights in Heather Morris’ bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz have been snapped up by Synchronicity Films for a multi-part, high-end international drama series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifth all-female shortlist for BBC Short Story Award

For a fifth time, an all-female shortlist has been unveiled for the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award, including a nod for 2013 winner Sarah Hall. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Passing the screen test: four speakers reveal what makes a hit TV adaptation

A rise in the number and output of streaming platforms such as Amazon Video and Netflix has opened up new and profitable revenue streams for writers—but how can publishers help them grasp them? Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gaiman, Smith and Ishiguro to feature in British short story anthology

Penguin is publishing a new anthology, The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, "a literary treasure trove" of "30 great short stories published in the last 20 years", featuring contributors such as Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh and Neil Gaiman. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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