Profile Books and Aitken Alexander have launched the Profile Aitken Alexander Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to the best debut trade non-fiction proposal from an academic. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sunday Times literary editor Andrew Holgate has said it is "worth thinking about" introducing a Young Adult bestseller chart into the paper, after taking the decision to make vlogger Oli White's Generation Next (Hodder & Stoughton) number one on the upcoming Sunday Times adult fiction... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Aitken, formerly sales and marketing director and then associate publisher at Wisdom Publications, has been promoted to publisher of the company. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It could be second time lucky for author Anne Enright as bookmakers William Hill have her as odds-on favourite to win the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction next week. The bookmaker has Irish author Enright to win The Baileys prize 5/2 for her sixth novel The Green Road (Vintage) about a family... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The ongoing war in Dafur, the Yorkshire Ripper murders and a dark and comical play which explores the life of a glamorous transsexual hooker are among the book themes on the Polari First Book Prize – described as the “strongest” in the prize’s history. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Crossan’s free verse novel One (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) has won The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Riding the wave of Alexander Hamilton mania drummed up by the Broadway hit about the Founding Father, Elizabeth Cobbs’s forthcoming novel, ‘The Hamilton Affair,’ has been given a presale boost from two major chains. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Russian-born British journalist Arkady Ostrovsky has won the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 for The Invention of Russia (Atlantic Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hannah Rothschild and Paul Murray have won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction – the first time in the prize’s history it has been awarded to two people. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book about the “exposure of greed and corruption in modern Russia” by Peter Pomerantsev has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judges for the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize, have been announced as submissions open for entry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Publishing has created Bonnier Publishing Australia in a bid to expand further into the Australian and New Zealand markets. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan non-fiction is expanding its business and pop-science list with two "major" acquisitions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fazal Sheikh has won the Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book of the Year award for The Erasure Trilogy (Steidl). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following Joseph Andras’s surprise decision to turn down the Goncourt first novel prize, it’s time to weigh up the pros and cons of rejecting a literary awardTwo days after Joseph Andras’s De Nos Frères Blessés (which had not been on the shortlist of four) was astonishingly announced as the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pricing pressure and the shifting genre tastes of readers are two big issues for publishers of Christian fiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlist for the 2016 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize has been announced, celebrating “impressive” submissions, predominantly from independent publishers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jennifer Doyle, currently deputy marketing director at Cornerstone, will become fiction publishing director for Headline and Headline Review, marking an "exciting new phase in Headline’s evolution". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thames & Hudson has created a Museum and Institutional Publishing Division dedicated to the company’s projects with its co-publishing partners. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tracy Darnton, a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in writing for young people, has won this year’s Stripes YA Short Story Prize, run in partnership with The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of the "newly evolved" Man Booker International Prize 2016 is The Vegetarian by South Korean author Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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