New Moran trio led by More Than a Woman

Ebury has signed a "major" three-book deal with journalist Caitlin Moran, starting with More Than a Woman—the title Moran feels she was "destined to write", the list said—in 2020. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WHEN I WAS a student in Perm, Russia, my university friend told me that her grandparents were kulaks. The term dates back to the era of collectivization, a harsh agrarian reform that took place in the Soviet Union between the late 1920s and the early ’30s. Hitherto privately owned land and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-14 18:00:21 UTC ]
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MCB buys festive trio from Alex T Smith

Macmillan Children’s Books has bought three full-colour gift titles written and illustrated by Alex T Smith. Editorial director Gaby Morgan bought world rights in all languages from Alison Eldred at Arena Illustration. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-09 21:23:43 UTC ]
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Barbara Taylor Bradford pens prequel to A Woman of Substance for HarperCollins

Barbara Taylor Bradford has written a prequel to her bestselling 1979 novel A Woman of Substance, to be published by HarperCollins in 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 16:49:46 UTC ]
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Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other sells in 21 deals with TV auction underway

Following Bernardine Evaristo’s historic Booker Prize win, translation rights to her novel Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) have been snapped up in 21 territories. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 06:13:51 UTC ]
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The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

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[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-12 09:50:58 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Kids bags diverse series trio

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 18:04:27 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 15:24:52 UTC ]
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A Woman Confronted Her Rapist 14 Years Later. Here’s What He Said.

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[ The New York Times | 2019-10-01 09:00:06 UTC ]
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These Canadian Publishers Know It’s a Woman’s World

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OUP investigates possible update to definition of 'woman'

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 01:41:57 UTC ]
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[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-05 18:42:59 UTC ]
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Moran and James make Richard and Judy Book Club summer reading list

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[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-21 17:20:56 UTC ]
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