Ondaatje, Bauer, Rooney and Ryan on 'dystopian' Man Booker longlist

Golden Man Booker winner Michael Ondaatje has been longlisted for this year’s £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his “wonderfully” atmospheric novel Warlight (Jonathan Cape), in a line-up the judges described as dominated by dystopias. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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George Braziller: the man who published Pamuk and Janet Frame in America

At age 99, renown indie publisher George Braziller looks back on 70 years in the book business, and a career that saw him rub shoulders with Sartre and PicassoHe pursued Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris, dined with Pablo Picasso in Antibes, and rescued New Zealand’s Janet Frame from the manuscript... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Female author submits novel under man's name. You will totally believe what happens next.

Writer Catherine Nichols submitted the opening pages to her novel to 50 literary agents under her own name, and then again using a man's name. Can you guess which name got more positive responses? Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books that should have won the Booker

So the Man Booker Prize longlist was announced just last week, and unless you've been living under a rock - you will know that Anna Smaill, none other than the NZ author of my favourite book of the year (totally true, cause The Bone Clocks was published last year), is on it! Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2015-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Kitchens of the Great Midwest': Just something J. Ryan Stradal whipped up

When he was 5, J. Ryan Stradal wrote his name in crayon on the inside jackets of his favorite books. Only he didn't write "property of"; he wrote "written by." Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Librarian pens dystopian series for Headline

Headline has bought a series of four novels by a librarian from the West Midlands. Publishing director Mari Evans acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the books by G X Todd in a pre-empt from Camilla Wray at the Darley Anderson agency. The first novel, Defender, “transports readers... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Police: Woman lured by man on Facebook lived in a closet, held as sex slave

A woman was held captive in a closet and sexually abused by a Richmond, Calif., man she met on Facebook a year ago, police said. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Group c.e.o. joins PRH board

Emmanuel Roman, the c.e.o. of the Man Group, sponsor of the Man Booker Prize, has joined the board of directors of Penguin Random House. Roman will act as an independent director. He has served as c.e.o. of the London-based Man Group since 2013. As well as a career in investment, Roman has... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Manning moves to Phoenix Comic

Kate Manning, former sales and marketing director of Hot Key Books, is moving to The Phoenix Comic, which is published by David Fickling Books.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Asian literary prize winner apologises after plagiarism row

Shin Kyung-sook had earlier denied using material by Yukio Mishima, but has now apologised, saying ‘I can’t believe my own memory’Shin Kyung-sook, an internationally renowned South Korean novelist who won the $30,000 (£19,000) Man Asian literary prize four years ago, has apologised to her... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Knausgaard and Robinson on Warwick Prize longlist

Works of fiction and books published by independent presses dominate the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Writing. Big names on the list include Karl Ove Knausgaard and Marilynne Robinson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Abacus buys Jonasson's '100-Year-Old Man…'

Little, Brown imprint Abacus has acquired UK rights to Jonas Jonasson’s The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared. Independent Hesperus was ordered to stop selling or distributing the title in April after a High Court hearing brought by Hachette Book Group US, which... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can mobile save the world from a dystopian ad future?

Google’s buy button and other mobile tech can allow advertisers to leave behind the “spray and pray” approach of days gone byLike many children of the 1970s, I spent many hours immersed in the futuristic visions of the comic book 2000AD, whose Judge Dredd stories were compellingly dystopian. One... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kathy Rooney leaves Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Information m.d. Kathy Rooney has left the company as part of a restructure. Rooney, part of the senior management team at the publisher, left at the end of May to pursue other opportunities, beginning with a non-executive role at information management platform Librios. Vafa... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookCon 2015: David Duchovny on Spiritual Cows, Circumcised Pigs, but Not Cancer Man

David Duchovny, best-known for his portrayals on TV of Fox Mulder on The X-Files, and Hank Moody on Californication, is finally where he originally thought he would end up: as a writer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indies strong on Jerwood Fiction longlist

Independent publishers have taken the majority of spots on the 15-strong longlist for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015. The prize celebrates great British fiction and each year awards a group of eight writers with £5,000 each. This is the first time the prize has made public a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hill, Cleeves, Billingham on Dagger in the Library longlist

Authors including Susan Hill, Ann Cleeves, Mark Billingham and Peter James have been longlisted for the CWA 2015 Dagger in the Library award. The prize is give for an author’s whole body of work to date, rather than a single title. The longlist for the award, which is sponsored by Penguin... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mantel, Amis and Davies on Gordon Burn longlist

Hilary Mantel, Martin Amis and Dan Davies have made the 13-strong longlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015, which "champions a fresh, fearless approach to writing".   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rankin, Child and Hodgson on Theakstons Crime longlist

Crime novelists Ian Rankin and Lee Child are among the authors longlisted for this year’s Theakston’s Old Peculier crime novel of the year award. Rankin’s Saints of the Shadow Bible (Orion Fiction) and Child’s Personal (Bantam) are up against 16 other novels, including The Facts of Life and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Times, Bloomberg News, and the Richest Man in China

Last Wednesday, the Times published a front-page story about the movie and real-estate mogul Wang Jianlin, who is the richest man in Asia, worth an estimated thirty-five billion dollars. The former People’s Liberation Army foot soldier has ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta's Rausing makes Ondaatje shortlist

Granta owner Sigrid Rausing has been shortlisted for the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her book Everything is Wonderful (Grove Press), alongside authors including Helen Dunmore and Elif Shafak. The annual award of £10,000 is given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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