Judges praise the final six ‘exquisite and ambitious’ works in contention for the £50,000 award for nonfictionBooks tackling climate change, China, the NHS, European revolutions, ballet and music feature on the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction.The six-long list includes “exquisite, quite ambitious works of writing about art and music and history” as well as “very courageous investigative journalism”, said judging chair and Financial Times literary editor Frederick Studemann. He announced the list on Sunday live from an event at Cheltenham Literature Festival. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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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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The organisers of the Branford Boase award today (1st May) announced this year’s shortlist... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale (Allen Lane) has... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love (Chatto & Windus) has won... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Beckham, Andy Murray and Ronnie O’Sullivan are among the sports stars competing for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Seven of the 17 titles shortlisted [see below] for the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John le Carré, Robert Galbraith and Val McDermid are among the authors shortlisted for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahead of Time Inc.'s impending spin-off later this quarter, Time Warner announced the makeup of the 10-member board that will oversee the publishing giant once it officially goes public on its own. Time Inc. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four out of five of the books nominated for Best Novel at this year’s Hugo Awards are... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Abrams has bought world rights to make-up artist Lisa Eldridge's history of make-up,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comics artists Gene Luen Yang and Ulli Lust have been awarded L.A. Times Book Prizes for Young Adult Literature and Graphic Novels respectively for 2013. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The grand prize-winner receiving a pair of domestic travel airplane tickets to BEA in 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A music publisher is venturing into religion/spirituality with a line of books about the spiritual thoughts of celebrities. Now the company just needs to figure out where it can sell them. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The American Library Association has shortlisted six books for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut novelists Eimear McBride, Audrey Magee and Hannah Kent join Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Donna... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London based publishing start-up Jellybooks has won £25,000 from the Government-backed... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the 2014 FAME Awards, hosted early this morning at New York’s Yale Club, FOLIO: and min recognized the best in magazine events and honored this year’s class of Hall of Fame inductees. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Katherine Rundell’s novel Rooftoppers (Faber and Faber) has been crowned the overall winner... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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