Picador wins Millwood Hargrave’s adult bow

Award-winning children’s author Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s first foray into adult fiction has gone to Picador for a significant six-figure sum after a “hotly contested” 13-publisher auction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Young-adult books by Fiona Paul, Eric Greitens and others this fall

YA promises diversity with historical fiction, paranormal romance, murder mysteries and thrillers.YA promises diversity with historical fiction, paranormal romance, murder mysteries and thrillers. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Denise Mina wins Crime Novel of the Year

Glaswegian writer Denise Mina has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McKeon wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Irish writer Belinda McKeon was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize yesterday (18th July)... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-books 30% of US adult fiction trade sales

US publishers' sales of ebooks more than doubled in 2011, meaning that the digital book is... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador signs Kermode

Picador has acquired two books from film and cultural critic, Mark Kermode, with the author... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifty Shades becomes bestselling British novel for adults

Fifty Shades of Grey has surpassed Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Englander wins Frank O'Connor Award

Author Nathan Englander has been announced as the winner of the world's most valuable short... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Should young adult books have age ratings?

Author G.P. Taylor says 'children's literature has gone too far' and advocates a ratings system like that for movies or video games. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bootle wins Wolfson Economics Prize

Roger Bootle has been announced this morning (5th July) as the winner of the £250,000... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Babatunde wins Caine Prize

Nigerian author Rotimi Babatunde has won the 13th Caine Prize for African Writing. The writer was... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Engage wins sports book of the year

Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson has won the British Sports Book Awards Sports Book of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Smart Newspapers Win at Attracting Youth

I-Next of India has been designated the 2012 World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year in the annual Young Reader Prize competition from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which awarded 21 prizes to newspapers and a pr ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Double win with A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls (Walker Books) written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay, has become the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Briton wins lucrative book prize

British author Jon McGregor wins the 100,000 euro (£81,000) International Impac Dublin Literary Award for his third novel Even the Dogs. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Colgan wins Melissa Nathan Award

Jenny Colgan has won the “coolest award in women’s commercial fiction” for her... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kiwi and Sri Lankan authors win Commonwealth awards

Writers from Sri Lanka and New Zealand have won this year's Commonwealth Writers Awards for... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Miller wins Orange Prize

A debut novel has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for the second year running, with US author... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pratchett wins Wodehouse Prize

Terry Pratchett has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction after being... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bhattacharya wins RSL Ondaatje Prize

Delhi-based novelist Rahul Bhattacharya has won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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First adult St John to Orion

Orion has bought the first adult novel from the Blue Peter award-winning children's author... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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