In an era of exponentially advancing technology, staying ahead of the curve can feel like a full-time job. This fairly describes the career of acclaimed science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who invented the term “metaverse,” cemented the notion of a digital “avatar,” and received oblique credit for the rise of Bitcoin—all while writing doorstop-sized literary […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-08 09:56:48 UTC ]
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Scholastic is to relaunch children's series Horrible Histories in 2021, with new-look covers and a new "secret diary" series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-02 01:42:05 UTC ]
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We’ve all had to adapt to the pandemic, and some have adapted more quickly than others—maybe none more so than Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, who is touring his new book Ready Player Two on the virtual platform Roblox. The Ready Player Two promotional event will start with a Q&A... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-24 18:01:53 UTC ]
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Transworld has pre-empted Pathogenesis, a "major new history of humankind" by Jonathan Kennedy, senior lecturer and director of the MSc global public health programmes at Barts and the London Medical School. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 20:14:01 UTC ]
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Anthony M. Amore’s book follows the early life of IRA sympathizer Bridget Rose Dugdale. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-20 17:05:08 UTC ]
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With all categories posting gains of at least 11%, unit sales of print books jumped 19.5% in the week ended Nov. 14, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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New works by Anthony Grafton, Peter Burke, Richard Ovenden quench many a curiosity. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-18 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline has acquired The Mercenary Stream by BBC journalist Nick Higham, telling the story of a centuries-long battle to bring clean water to London. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 23:16:15 UTC ]
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Picador has scooped a history of the Sackler dynasty from Say Nothing (William Collins) author Patrick Radden Keefe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 11:50:12 UTC ]
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Faber has signed Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–1997, billed as a “landmark” new work by Richard King. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-12 01:00:38 UTC ]
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In a slew of changes to its editorial team, Wildfire Books has appointed Jack Butler from Amazon Publishing as fiction publisher, while publisher Kate Stephenson is leaving to go freelance. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-11 09:24:37 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton will publish The Emperor’s Feast, a "unique history of China told through its food and drink", by author and presenter Jonathan Clements. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-11 05:47:40 UTC ]
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Picador has bagged a “shocking, enlightening and engaging” social and political history of dance music in the UK by journalist and film-maker Ed Gillett. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-09 10:32:37 UTC ]
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A 20% increase in digital revenue and a 38% jump in direct-to-consumer sales over last year’s first quarter of fiscal 2021 helped to drive up profits by 45% and sales by 13% at HarperCollins. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Tool contains publisher’s image libraries while encouraging public to upload their own photographs. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2020-11-04 14:41:51 UTC ]
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Virago has acquired a "personal" and "campaigning" exploration of the language we have had for women’s bodies and experiences over the centuries, by Oxford academic Dr Jenni Nuttall. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 21:05:42 UTC ]
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FEW WRITERS MANAGE to capture the essence of the California that exists beyond the images typically offered up by film and television — palm trees, beaches, gridlock, Hollywood, Kardashians; images the rest of the country seems so willing to accept about us “out here.” Kendra Atleework’s new... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-01 18:00:10 UTC ]
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Little, Brown imprint The Bridge Street Press has pre-empted for a six-figure sum world rights to Power, People and Painting: The Story of Art in Fifteen Cities by curator Caroline Campbell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-01 16:23:49 UTC ]
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Hazel V Carby has won the British Academy’s £25,000 non-fiction book prize, the 8th Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 17:56:20 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury is to publish the "definitive" companion book to accompany the Natural History Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature", in collaboration with Warner Bros. Pottermore Publishing will publish the e-book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 15:33:33 UTC ]
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Jacaranda Books and Andersen Press will join forces to host an author reading event with Kwame Alexander, as part of its Black History Month celebrations. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 07:18:24 UTC ]
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