Chatto & Windus has acquired The Executor by poet, novelist and memoirist, Blake Morrison. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#chatto windus
#blake morrison
Chatto & Windus is publishing an account of the life of Frank Buckland, a "forgotten yet extraordinary" surgeon, pioneer conservationist and natural historian of the 19th century held in as high esteem as Charles Darwin in his own time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#natural history
#chatto windus
#charles darwin
Former Birmingham poet laureate Stephen Morrison-Burke has been selected for the inaugural Kit de Waal scholarship which offers a budding writer from a low-income household or a marginalised background a place on Birkbeck's creative writing MA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#budding writer
#low-income household
#marginalised background
Bonnier Publishing has bought independent publishing house John Blake Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bonnier publishing
Antiques dealer and TV presenter Paul Martin is publishing his autobiography with John Blake. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#john blake
The ceremony, which honored authors such as Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates, was the first one in which PEN American announced the winners live. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#toni morrison
#ta-nehisi coates
HarperCollins Children’s Books is to publish a picture book by Sir Quentin Blake and Emma Chichester Clarke in a “landmark acquisition”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#quentin blake
#harpercollins children
#picture book
John Blake Publishing is to republish Paul Daniels’ autobiography, retitled My Magic Life, as a “tribute to one of Britain’s greatest primetime entertainers”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#john blake
Chatto & Windus is publishing debut author Ruth Fitzmaurice's I Found My Tribe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#chatto windus
John Blake is publishing a "nostalgia memoir", The Girl in the Spotty Dress, by Pat Stewart with Veronica Clark. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#john blake
John Blake is set to release the autobiography of South Africa ambassador and "freedom fighter" Priscilla Jana entitled Fighting for Mandela. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#john blake
#freedom fighter
Author Fanny Blake gives some tips for buying books for your loved ones at Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#fanny blake
#buying books
Chatto & Windus has "beaten stiff competition" at auction to secure rights to Stopping Places: Tracing the Old Gypsy Ways across Modern Britain by Damian Le Bas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#chatto windus
Shirley Hughes, Quentin Blake and Allan Ahlberg are just some of the UK-based authors longlisted for the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) for outstanding commitment to children’s literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#quentin blake
#allan ahlberg
#shirley hughes
#outstanding commitment
John Blake will publish a book about the late Cilla Black next week. Black, whose real name was Priscilla White, died overnight on Saturday 1st August at her home in Spain after falling over, hitting her head and having a stroke. She was 72. On Monday 10th August John Blake will publish... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#john blake
Quentin Blake has warned that colouring books can limit children’s imaginations, according to the Times. The illustrator told the newspaper that he is “completely against” the use of colouring in as a way of teaching children to draw. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#colouring books
#quentin blake
#limit children
#teaching children
Satellite engineer Trevor Gibbon has been found guilty of the murder of former children's publisher Alison Morrison. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#found guilty
Alison Morrison, a former children's publisher and chair of Book Trust’s board of trustees, died in a ferocious attack by her neighbour after a dispute over noise from her son's skateboard, the Old Bailey has heard. Neighbour Trevor Gibbon is on trial for the murder of Morrison, who was killed... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#alison morrison
#book trust
Sabia Morrison is joining the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) team as events and membership administrator. The ALPSP is the international trade body that supports and represents not-for-profit organisations and institutions that publish scholarly and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#professional content
Morrisons has become a member of the Booksellers Association (BA), The Bookseller can reveal. The retailer joins fellow supermarket chains Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Asda in being a member of the trade body. The move reflects Morrisons’ growing commitment to books over the last two years, during... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#trade body
#growing commitment
John Blake Publishing has acquired the autobiography of 2014 Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst. Managing director Rosie Virgo acquired world English rights to Being Conchita from Guenter G Rodewald in Barcelona. She said: “We have extremely high hopes for this title. Conchita is a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#incredibly moving