Comma collects the work of writing stalwart M John Harrison in a new collection that spans genres—and five decades of writing Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Burningham, who was married to fellow children’s writer Helen Oxenbury, created beloved picture books including Mr Gumpy’s Outing and Avocado BabyJohn Burningham, the children’s author and illustrator behind some of the 20th century’s most enduring children’s books, has died at the age of 82.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite employing a small army of contractors to monitor posts, it’s clear the company is no longer fit for purposeWay back in the 1950s, a pioneering British cybernetician, W Ross Ashby, proposed a fundamental law of dynamic systems. In his book An Introduction to Cybernetics, he formulated his... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Lanchester’s new novel imagines a near-future world, recognisably ours, yet irredeemably broken. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook, Google and Apple make the headlines, but there are many inspiring startups to dissipate the sense of techno-dreadA quarter of a century ago, the Canadian author Douglas Coupland published his third novel. Microserfs was the tale of a group of young Microsoft employees who decide to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Press has acquired an "explosive" new speculative thriller set in the near future from John Marrs, author behind The One (Ebury). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Legend Press has snapped up Ana Johns' "beautiful" time-slip novel, The Woman in the White Kimono, billed as “competition for Memoirs of a Geisha”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus (HoZ) will publish two more books from J S Monroe as the author attempts to "push the boundaries of high-concept psychological thrillers". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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September Publishing has bought John Howkins’ Invisible - The Future of Work, about the increasing importance of the often invisible creative process in the work place. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Children's will next year publish a YA book about a transgender teenager and her brother by John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A memorial service to celebrate the life of publisher and bookseller John Calder will be held at the Free Word Centre, Farringdon Road, London on Friday 9th November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A show that maps Los Angeles and another that makes art of FBI files. Here are six exhibitions and events to check out in the coming week: “Here,” at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. A group exhibition examines the physical and geographical boundaries that define Los Angeles and its... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To put things in perspective, my career in B2B media began in online events. I was brought on to manage client sponsored webinars for Penton (now Informa), and then transitioned to become the company's first virtual trade show manager. Ah, the good ole days… Virtual events have historically been... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish author John Boyne has scooped the £2,000 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for his “sweeping, poignant and comedic odyssey” of post-war Ireland, The Heart’s Invisible Furies (Transworld). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Suffolk-based independent John Catt has announced a rise in turnover to £605,000 in the year ending August 31st 2018, a lift of over 150% on the prior year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry was on Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday and didn’t waste the opportunity to mock President Donald Trump’s frequent use of social media and his thin skin. The former senator from Massachusetts, who is promoting his new memoir, said Trump is the first... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wiley's publishing segment provides scientific, professional, and education books and related content in print and digital formats, as well as test preparation services and course workflow tools, to libraries, corporations, students, professionals, and researchers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Journalist with a chaotic, creative career in the underground press, who was in at the launch of New York’s Village VoiceIn 1954, soon after he arrived in New York City as a jobbing Yorkshire-born journalist, John Wilcock put up a notice in a Greenwich Village bookshop. It invited people... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Wilcock in SoHo in 1977. He led two lives — as the author of many “$5 a day” travel books and as a driving force behind the underground press. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2018-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British author John Gray criticizes the modern atheist movement for replacing God with human beings and puts forward his view of what a true atheist ought to be in his new book, ‘Seven Types of Atheism.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chris Barlas recalls working in the Brewer Street office of the publisher and bookseller who championed some of the great avant-garde writers of the 20th centuryI worked for John Calder (Obituary, 3 September) for a couple of years in the 70s, as editor of Gambit, the theatre magazine. It was... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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