A "frank, funny and excruciatingly relatable" novel about motherhood has been snapped up by Orion Fiction at auction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Collins has won a five-way auction for a feminist exposé of the economy by journalist Katrine Marçal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-19 00:41:42 UTC ]
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During the first 30 years of the National Book Awards in the US, only three writers of colour won prizes; last night, at the (virtual) 71st instalment, almost every person who took home a book award was Black or Asian. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-19 00:06:52 UTC ]
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Orion is offering webinars "to demystify the publishing industry", starting this month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 12:50:52 UTC ]
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Harvill Secker has triumphed in an eight-publisher auction for the “invigoratingly original” Africa Is Not A Country by Dipo Faloyin. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 22:48:05 UTC ]
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Orion has snapped up Mothering Sunday from debut author Sara James, in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-12 01:18:12 UTC ]
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Duckworth Books has acquired The Secret Diary of a New Mum (Aged 43 1/4) by Cari Rosen. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 10:52:11 UTC ]
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In a ceremony streamed live on Facebook, Souvankham Thammavongsa was awarded the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her collection of short stories 'How to Pronounce Knife.' It comes with a C$100,000 prize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet (Tinder Press) has been named the public’s favourite book of the year in the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-10 00:55:24 UTC ]
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Tinder Press has won at auction Christina Patterson’s next book, Outside, the Sky is Blue: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Loss. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-09 23:01:40 UTC ]
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CNN’s election-count coverage ended as it began: with Wolf Blitzer all excited. “After four long, tense days, we’ve reached a historic moment in this election,” he said. “We can now project the winner of the presidential race.” One thrumming musical interlude later, the network reported that... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-11-09 12:59:12 UTC ]
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Trapeze has signed a collection of poems on motherhood, edited by Ana Sampson, including work from classic poets such as Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as new voices Nikita Gill and Kate Baer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-08 17:03:33 UTC ]
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The four booksellers behind the "At Home with Four Indies" initiative have been named as FutureBook’s Team of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-06 01:36:17 UTC ]
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Dr Camilla Pang has won the £25,000 Royal Society Science Book Prize for her debut Explaining Humans (Viking), written as an instruction manual for a world she had difficulty understanding due to her Autism Spectrum Disorder. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 02:40:20 UTC ]
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Orion has hired Aria’s Rhea Kurien as editorial director to lead a dynamic growth strategy for its digital imprint Orion Dash. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-02 10:17:27 UTC ]
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The late French author Romain Gary is the only writer to have won France’s most prestigious literary award under two names: he received the Prix Goncourt for The Roots of Heaven (Les Racines du ciel; 1956) under his birth name and, more than 20 years later, “Émile Ajar” won the prize for The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-10-29 17:36:47 UTC ]
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Orion Fiction has landed a new novel from Jane Bailey, a dark reading group mystery called Sorry Isn't Good Enough. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-28 03:06:33 UTC ]
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From André Breton to Alison Bechdel, memoir writers have turned the genre upside down. Now a photographer recreates her troubled suburban childhood in a book, casting a movie star — Laura Dern — as her mother. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-10-26 17:41:25 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton is to publish "Who Dares Wins" host Mark "Billy" Billingham’s debut novel, after triumphing in a multi-publisher auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-25 21:34:49 UTC ]
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Caroline Bird has won the £10,000 Forward Prize for Best Collection with her “audacious” The Air Year (Carcanet). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-25 06:49:35 UTC ]
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Templar Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, will publish the Templar Illustration Prize-winning Bread, Buns and Biscuits by Paula White. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 15:37:27 UTC ]
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