“What’s Left of Me Is Yours,” a debut novel by Stephanie Scott, is inspired by the events surrounding an unlikely murder that occurred in Japan. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2020-06-23 09:00:07 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#debut novel
BBC4 is to broadcast a 60-minute documentary looking back at the highs and lows of 50 years of the Booker Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#booker prize
'Ranging across space and time,' according to jury chair Kwame Anthony Appiah, the 2018 Man Booker Prize shortlist includes three authors from the UK, one from Canada, two from the United States. The post The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Names Its 2018 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The list features two debut novels, including one from the youngest author ever to make the list, in addition to a novel in verse from an award-winning poet. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#debut novels
#youngest author
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne agreed to acquire Time magazine from Meredith for $190 million in cash, joining Jeff Bezos among tech billionaires buying venerable print publications.The move thrusts the brash 53-year-old entrepreneur, who helped lead the shift of software to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#helped lead
#pulitzer prize-winning
Kirty Topiwala, publisher at the Wellcome Collection, reveals how the not-for-profit organisation’s evolving partnership with Profile Books has breathed new life into the museum's publishing output. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#rude health
#publishing partnership
#paid dividends
#wellcome collection
Oneworld has signed a memoir by "moneyless man" Mark Boyle, recounting his life without modern technology on a smallholding in Ireland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#modern technology
The arts season is off and running, with openings all over Los Angeles and beyond! Here’s a guide to the top exhibitions and events in the coming week. Paul Anthony Smith, “Containment,” at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. Smith collages bits of photographs of people taken throughout the African... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#coming week
The Man Booker Prize is running a competition for independent bookshops with a cash prize of £1,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#independent bookshops
#cash prize
The image of furious rows and storming-outs is not one that I recognise but an industry concoction to glamorise publishingThe Man Booker prize is airing its dirty linen, celebrating its 50th birthday by drip-feeding bits of gossip and scandal from judging meetings, ceremonies and parties through... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#50th birthday
#kingsley amis
#mary wilson
#dead body
A new, free magazine titled Booklaunch will be launched later this month, aiming to recreate the experience of browsing a bookshop in print. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book extracts
The Booker Prize Foundation has launched an online celebration for the Man Booker Prize’s 50th anniversary, charting key moments in the prize’s history. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#adam kay
Hosted on the Man Booker Prize site, the new feature commemorates moments in the award program's first half-century and captures archival material and timelines. The post ‘Vintage Man Booker’ Is Launched, a Retrospective on 50 Years appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#award program
Chief executive Robert Thomson highlights growth at UK mastheads Times and Sunday Times, and Australian digital subscriptions rise 12%Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has shrugged off its latest annual loss with an upbeat assessment of its digital news and real estate assets.The worldwide publishing... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#sunday times
#digital news
#net loss
One measure of producer, singer, DJ and keyboardist Navid Hakimi’s love of adventurous music could be found in the most basic of places: the influences category on his Facebook page. For the 32-year-old Hakimi, who was among five people — including his mother, Floria Hakimi — killed Sunday in a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Orion is publishing a story of love, war, family and betrayal, based on the true story of a little-known massacre in Civitella, Italy during the Second World War. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#thetrue story
#world war
#true events
One person suggested Amazon bookstores should replace public libraries. Readers disagreed. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#readers disagreed
IKEA is partnering with the Man Booker Prize to create ‘Reading Rooms’ filled with free novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
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
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#wonderfully atmospheric
Books editor Alice O'Keeffe shares her views on the 2018 Man Booker Prize longlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
'Slavery, ecology, missing persons, inner-city violence, young love, prisons, trauma, and race' all are said to figure into the Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, as the award starts its second 50 years of competition. The post The 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist Is Announced in... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#london appeared
#fiction longlist
#missing persons
#young love