Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 17/05/2011 - 15:50 Granta senior editor Bella Lacey has bought UK and Commonwealth rights in a book by New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead about the novel Middlemarch. Lacey acquired the title in a "competitive" four-way auction handled by Kathy Robbins and Louise Quayle at The Robbins Office, with Michael Heyward of Text Publishing buying the Australian and New Zealand rights. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Atlantic Books is to publish Head First: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of Mind and Body by Alastair Santhouse, after securing the non-fiction title at auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Statistics suggest that while at the start of the pandemic many children and parents embraced books, reading has now reduced in 2021, while access remains a critical issue particularly for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Richard Kearney examines its literary, religious, mythic and psychoanalytic contexts. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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The Klaus Flugge Prize, awarded to the "most promising and exciting newcomer" in children’s picture book illustration, has longlisted 20 books from illustrators whose debuts span friendship, love, family, the natural world and tales of daring. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A woman, rigid in her diet, finally gives in to her cravings in Broder’s follow-up to “The Pisces.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Centuries of fascination for 'The One Thousand and One Nights' were examined by two winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award this weekend. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award and NYU Explore ‘The Nights’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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A Yale-educated engineer goes in search of the child she gave up for adoption in Nancy Johnson’s debut. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Comma Press will publish The American Way: Stories of Invasion in May 2021, the first title in its History-into-Fiction series to step outside of British history. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Blind since age 3, he used amanuenses to dictate sentences that he wrote in his head and revised out loud. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Wellcome Collection and Profile Books will publish An Extra Pair of Hands by Kate Mosse, her own "deeply personal" story of finding herself, in middle age, caring for her relatives. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Luke Neima, Josie Mitchell and Rachel Allen have been promoted at Granta magazine. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Scholars explore the questions of law, past and present, raised by the hit musical. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Sceptre has acquired a cultural, historical and literary exploration of the birth, death and legacy of Shakespeare’s Juliet Capulet. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Transworld is publishing Black is the Body, a collection of non-fiction essays covering a number of US author Emily Bernard's experiences. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Her new graphic memoir, “We Saw Scenery,” is based on old diaries she found three years ago: “I wrote down everything.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Coronet has acquired the debut novel of Kate Sawyer examining life after near global extinction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film was far from a surefire hit, but it cemented his legacy. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Explore Indigenous Futurisms by reading these 25 science fiction and fantasy books by Indigenous authors with Indigenous main characters! Continue reading at Book Riot
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Sphere has acquired a book in which the author tells the story of her own investigation into the long-unsolved murder of her stepsister. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The five-strong shortlist for the £25,000 British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding sees works on the discoveries of 20th-century anthropologists side by side with studies on the legacies of Empire. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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