With no room for Hilary Mantel’s conclusion to her Wolf Hall trilogy, the six finalists also include four debutsHilary Mantel will not win a third Booker prize with the final novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, after American writers made a near clean sweep of this year’s shortlist.With four writers of colour among its six authors, the shortlist, announced on Tuesday, is the most diverse line-up in the prize’s history. Four debut novelists – Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor – are up against the acclaimed Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, and the Ethiopian-American Maaza Mengiste for the £50,000 award. Related: Booker nominee Avni Doshi: 'Women feared my ambivalence towards motherhood' Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2020-09-15 12:21:07 UTC ]
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Titles from Bloomsbury, Atlantic Books and Serpent’s Tail have all made it on to the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish author Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Galley Beggar/Faber &... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prominent African-American and Hispanic children's book publishers, publicists, agents, and authors were featured on the BookCon panel "Where Are the People of Color in Children's Books?" held on Saturday, May 31. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ever since Regnery launched its children’s publishing program three years ago, the publisher has been looking for a way to celebrate American history and American heroes in a way that would engage, inspire, and entertain young readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On May 1, responding to criticism of the lack of diversity among featured authors at BookCon, a grassroots coalition of authors and other book people launched a social media campaign, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, that quickly went viral. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book review magazine Kirkus Reviews has announced three $50,000 book prizes to be awarded for fiction, nonfiction and young adult literature. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is one of the three debut novels, all from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust (NLT) and Bloomsbury Children’s Books are launching a prize to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press has signed two prize-winning novels by German writers. Publisher Adam Freudenheim... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim has won the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his second... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former home secretary Alan Johnson has won the Orwell Prize for Books with childhood memoir, This... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Edward St Aubyn has won the fifteenth Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for his satire on the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton editor Anne Perry has been awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2014. Perry... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Parthian Books, Faber and Jonathan Cape all have English-language titles in the shortlist for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book exploring England’s ancient track roads and green grass roads has won the inaugural... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two books published by Usborne have made the shortlist of this year’s Royal Society Prize... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnard College named Carmen Ren as the first ever recipient of its Axinn Foundation/Anna Quindlen Award for Creative Writing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nathaniel Mackey has been awarded the 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors the lifetime achievement of a living U.S. poet. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 20 winning stories will be collected into a single volume, published as an Anchor Books trade paperback original on September 9. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When shelf space abounded at bricks-and-mortar locations, it was not uncommon for booksellers to stock political books that matched their own ideological leanings. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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