W W Norton imprint Liveright Publishing is set to publish the "authorised and authentic" collection of Nelson Mandela's prison letters spanning the 27 years he was held as a political prisoner. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle’s annual letter to company employees emphasized the acquisitions the publisher has made across the publishing world this year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House c.e.o. Markus Dohle has hailed the company's acquisitions and investments and called on the firm to leverage its "unique role in the world as a force for good", in a year end letter to staff. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-12 04:25:11 UTC ]
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Quiller has bought the memoir of former British banker Giles Darby, one of the NatWest Three who was jailed in the US for his involvement in a $7m fraud. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 16:17:14 UTC ]
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Elliott & Thompson has scooped How to be Hopeful by writer, performer and activist Bernadette Russell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 14:44:42 UTC ]
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Children’s author Tom Palmer has won the Ruth Rendell Award for his "outstanding" contribution to raising literacy levels in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-05 11:52:33 UTC ]
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Pan Mac has scooped the "hilarious and entertaining" take on Formula 1 by racing stars Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-05 04:00:53 UTC ]
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Editors Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh weave the composer’s correspondence into a mostly tidy account. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-04 23:08:16 UTC ]
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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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Elif Shafak's 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Viking) has triumphed in a vote by Blackwell’s booksellers across the country to be named Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-01 15:21:12 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has acquired “a heartwarming tale” of the friendship between car crash survivor Kerry Irving and Max the Springer Spaniel after their story proved a social media hit. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 11:02:19 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press has sold YA debut Bearmouth by Liz Hyder to Norton in the US following a three-way bidding war. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 19:34:40 UTC ]
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A tale of a squirrel's quest for friends, Cyril and Pat (Pan Macmilan) by Emily Gravett, has been crowned the inaugural winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize, which celebrates the best books for sharing with babies and children aged under five. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 04:31:22 UTC ]
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Bodley Head will publish MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow’s take on "the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 02:47:32 UTC ]
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Malaysian-Chinese writer and editor Nina Mingya Powles has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for her submission Small Bodies of Water, which explores growing up between two different cultures. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-18 11:59:01 UTC ]
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Altan’s cri de coeur is a timeless testament to the art and power of writing amid Orwellian repression. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-14 18:01:28 UTC ]
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Virtually none of us will ever know what Ahmet Altan has gone through, and continues to live through. After the 2016 Turkish coup d’etat attempt, the writer was arrested along with his brother on such claims as “sending subliminal messages to coup supporters.” In 2018, they were sentenced to... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-11-11 12:00:01 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has won a multi-publisher auction for The Reading List by debut author and Harvill Secker commissioning editor Sara Nisha Adams in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-10 16:51:18 UTC ]
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Legend Press has scooped the "important and beautiful" third novel from Women’s Prize-longlisted writer Jemma Wayne. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-05 21:51:50 UTC ]
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Philip Nation will join HarperCollins Christian Publishing as v-p and publisher of Thomas Nelson Bibles on December 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press has acquired two Norwegian books from authors Marie Aubert and Jan Grue. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-04 01:19:19 UTC ]
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