Men at Bloomsbury paid 17.2% more than women

Men earn a median average of 17.2% more than women at Bloomsbury, and a mean average of 23.3% more. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Bloomsbury buys Oberon Books in £1.2m deal

Bloomsbury has bought London-based theatre publisher Oberon Books in a £1.2m deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 04:13:11 UTC ]
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‘The Ferrante Effect’: In Italy, Women Writers Are Ascendant

“My Brilliant Friend” and Elena Ferrante’s other best-selling books are inspiring female novelists and shaking up the country’s male-dominated literary establishment. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-12-09 10:00:14 UTC ]
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Bettany wins HQ and Gransnet prize for women writers over 40

Jane Bettany has won HQ and Gransnet's writing prize for unpublished women writers aged over 40.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 01:51:32 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury scoops McMullan’s debut novel

Bloomsbury will publish journalist Thomas McMullan’s debut novel The Last Good Man in November 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 21:48:31 UTC ]
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Ben Bailey Smith's three middle-grade books go to Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired three "game-changing" middle-grade books by Ben Bailey Smith. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 18:08:52 UTC ]
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Lit Hub Daily: December 2, 2019

What was the first book you fell in love with? The Center for Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Prize authors weigh in. | Lit Hub “Disagree with my argument, beliefs, and my politics, but hands off my syntax!” Lore Segal’s love letter to editors. | Lit Hub “Among Larry’s many strengths as a writer,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-02 11:30:22 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury enters China's domestic market

Bloomsbury is entering China’s domestic market in a joint venture with state-owned China Youth Publishing Group (CYPG) and its subsidiary Roaring Lion Media (RLM). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-01 13:35:55 UTC ]
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Book Deals: Week of December 2, 2019

Millennial journalist Jill Filipovic sells a book on her generation to S&S’s newly launched One Signal imprint, Gallery Books lands a YouTube star, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Wolf and Sandi Toksvig to headline Women of the World Festival

Naomi Wolf, Shazia Mirza, Scarlett Curtis, Sandi Toksvig and Mary Robinson will headline the 10th Women of the World (WOW) Festival in London in March 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-29 02:55:25 UTC ]
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Watkins Media to offer paid internship scheme

Watkins Media is offering its first paid internship scheme starting in January 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-27 12:12:16 UTC ]
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The pioneering women who fought to get in, and fit in, at Yale

Anne Gardiner Perkins tells the story of the school’s early days as a coed campus. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-22 01:56:07 UTC ]
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11 Inclusive Children’s Books Written By Women of Color

These inclusive children's books by women of color highlight awesome yet underrepresented communities like Sikh, indigenous, and Dominican. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-11-21 11:35:59 UTC ]
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‘In the Country of Women’: Featured Nonfiction from Susan Straight

In our latest edition of featured nonfiction, we present an excerpt from National Book Award finalist Susan Straight’s new novel, In the Country of Women, out now from Catapult. The post ‘In the Country of Women’: Featured Nonfiction from Susan Straight appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions

[ The Millions | 2019-11-19 20:00:11 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to sell Whitaker’s Almanack

Bloomsbury is selling reference guide Whitaker’s assets, including the current edition, the online database, and backlist editions dating back to 1869. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 07:38:43 UTC ]
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Bluemoose launches subscription model for its women-only publishing year

Bluemoose Books is launching a subscription model for the first time, to accompany its year of only publishing female writers over 45 in 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-18 08:25:36 UTC ]
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Go Beyond Sally Rooney With These 13 Irish Women Novelists

It’s a confusing thing, being Irish. We’re European with none of the sophistication, and for a tiny island, we have an impressive lack of consistency. That said, we also have an impressive literary output. Our politics, social movements, and religions have born enough conflict to make a canon... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2019-11-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Lonely White Men: On Michel Houellebecq’s “Serotonin”

FRANCES’S MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ leads something of a double career. A novelist of Prix Goncourt–winning distinction, Houellebecq is also his country’s best-selling author abroad and, on many accounts, currently its best. He is also reliably a prophet of current events: his third novel, Platform,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-12 13:30:31 UTC ]
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‘Consistent’ T&F likely to hit 2% growth target for 2019

Parent company Informa has said Taylor & Francis "continues to perform consistently", expressing confidence that it will hit its annual target of 2% underlying growth for the full year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 06:30:02 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to publish Henry Scowcroft's memoir

A memoir billed as a "popular-science detective story" by science writer Henry Scowcroft has gone to Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree, focusing on his fiancée’s experience of advanced bladder cancer. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 03:00:09 UTC ]
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