Oliver scoops RNA award for romance debut

Melissa Oliver has won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Joan Hessayon Award for new writers with her debut The Rebel Heiress and the Knight (Mills & Boon Historical). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Long scoops Welsh children’s literature award

YA author Hayley Long has won the Tir na n-Og Children’s Literature Award for The Nearest Faraway Place (Hot Key Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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O'Connell's transhumanism debut scoops Wellcome Prize

Irish journalist Mark O’Connell’s “passionate, entertaining and cogent examination” into the use of technology to cheat death and push the human body beyond its current limitations has won the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize for 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow scoops five nominations for IPG Awards

Nosy Crow and Bloomsbury dominate the IPG Independent Publishing Awards shortlists, alongside various radical publishers such as Verso and Zed Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kalayil scoops Writers’ Guild Award

Women have dominated the winners' list at the Writers’ Guild Awards, with debut novelist Sheena Kalayil honoured along with British playwright Caryl Churchill. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Berlin’s Future! Publish Debuts Its German Book Trailer Award

The conference in its third year has instituted a new book trailer award program with a shortlist of 30 videos designed to entice consumers to various publishers' titles. Organizers say the trailer award will be an annual feature of the conference. The post Berlin’s Future! Publish Debuts Its... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cape scoops 'Cat Person' writer Roupenian's debut

Jonathan Cape has scooped the debut book from Kristen Roupenian, the author of 'Cat Person', a short story published in the New Yorker this week which went viral and triggered a wave of media coverage. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Good Night Stories scoops Blackwell's Book of the Year award

Blackwell’s has named its Book of the Year as the "inspirational" Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Particular Books) by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fig Tree scoops Florence Welch's debut

Singer-songwriter Florence Welch has signed her first book - an illustrated collection of lyrics and poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie Rapha's second book scoops William Hill Award

The second book published by premium cycling brand Rapha Editions has scooped the 29th William Hill Sport Book of the Year for its “startlingly intimate portrait” of Tour de France trailblazer Tom Simpson . Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sainsbury's and Goldsboro honoured at RNA Awards

Sainsbury's, Goldsboro Books and HarperImpulse are among the winners at the Romantic Novelists’ Association's (RNA) annual industry awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OUP scoops Ramirez's children fiction debut

Oxford University Press Children’s will publish a debut children's fiction series from BBC historian Dr Janina Ramirez. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jones scoops £15k BBC Short Story Award

Welsh writer Cynan Jones has won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust for his “tenderly devastating exploration of the body”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chris Cleave scoops inaugural Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award

Chris Cleave has won the inaugural Goldsboro Books Glass Bell award for contemporary fiction for his fourth novel, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Sceptre). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oliver's 5 Ingredients scoops fifth week at the top

Jamie Oliver has dished up a fifth week as the UK Official Top 50 number one, as 5 Ingredients—Quick & Easy Food (Michael Joseph) sold 44,956 copies for £537,538.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jemisin scoops best Hugo novel award for second time

N K Jemisin has won the Hugo award for best novel for the second time after being the first black person to claim the science fiction prize last year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut collection Moon Juice wins CLiPPA award

Poet Kate Wakeling has won this year's CLiPPA award for children's poetry for her debut collection Moon Juice, published by indie The Emma Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hamish Hamilton scoops 'radical' debut after seven-way auction

Hamish Hamilton has acquired debut novel The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh after a seven-way auction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Morpurgo scoops Children’s Book Award for fourth time

Michael Morpurgo has won the overall Children’s Book Award for a record-breaking fourth time. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Collins scoops debut of St Paul's Girls' high mistress

William Collins has bought the debut of the high mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School, Clarissa Farr. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Max Porter scoops Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer Award

Max Porter has won the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award 2016 for his "extraordinary" debut Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Faber). Continue reading at The Bookseller

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