Profile and Wellcome secure Shafak's manifesto for hopefulness

Profile Books and the Wellcome Collection will publish Elif Shafak’s manifesto offering “a rallying cry for hopefulness”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 02:43:46 UTC ]
News tagged with: #profile books #wellcome collection #rallying cry

Other Publishing stories related to: 'Profile and Wellcome secure Shafak's manifesto for hopefulness'


Faber and Profile to publish new series by Francesca Simon

Faber and Profile will publish a new series by bestselling Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-13 21:59:59 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #francesca simon


Publisher Of Controversial ‘American Dirt’ Cancels Author Tour Amid Security Concerns

The latest Oprah's Book Club pick by Jeanine Cummins, a white woman, has been widely criticized for stereotypical depictions of Mexicans and migration. Continue reading at HuffPost

[ HuffPost | 2020-01-29 21:08:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #latest oprah #jeanine cummins #white woman #stereotypical depictions #book club


The Book People unable to secure buyer makes 155 redundant

The Book People made 155 of its staff redundant on Friday (10th January) after failing to find a buyer. The company will continue to trade online with retained staff "for as long as possible" and "whilst any remaining interest is explored", its administrators have said. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-10 16:53:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #staff redundant #book people


WI15: Bookshop Hopes to Change Bookish E-commerce

The new online bookstore intended to benefit indies is nearly ready to go, and will launch January 28. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #bookstore #bookshop


Digiday Research Report: Half of publishing industry workers are concerned with job security

There are a multitude of effects the changes in publishing have had on the industry -- but less well understood are what it has meant for the people working in the industry. We surveyed over 200 publishing employees in business and revenue roles to understand how work culture, mental health, the... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2020-01-07 05:01:49 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #digiday research #people working #mental health #survey respondents #publishing industry


Trade dismay at The Book People administration amid hopes of buyer

News of The Book People going into administration has been met with dismay by publishers, who still hold out hope that a buyer for at least part of the business can be found. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-17 20:40:19 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #book people


Father Gregory Boyle talks hope, homelessness and the power of kinship

Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, shared "Barking to the Choir" with the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-12-17 03:46:56 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #gregory boyle #times book


Profile signs non-fiction from poet Cathy Park Hong

Profile Books will publish a “fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits” by award-winning poet Cathy Park Hong. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-17 01:56:53 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #profile books #creative non-fiction


Bloomsbury wins five-way auction for 'modern masculinity manifesto'

Bloomsbury Continuum has won a five-way bidding war for a “manifesto for modern masculinity” by Book of Man founder Martin Robinson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-15 15:29:43 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #bloomsbury continuum #bidding warfor #bloomsbury


Oneworld secures collection of lost Proust tales

Oneworld is to publish nine stories by Marcel Proust for the first time in English.  The stories in collection The Mysterious Correspondent were never published in Proust's lifetime. They were uncovered by scholar and publisher Bernard de Fallois, who previously identified Proust’s posthumously... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-09 15:21:22 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #marcel proust #posthumously published


Elliott & Thompson scoops Russell's guide to hope

Elliott & Thompson has scooped How to be Hopeful by writer, performer and activist Bernadette Russell. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 14:44:42 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #elliott thompson


Shafak scoops Blackwell's Book of the Year

Elif Shafak's 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Viking) has triumphed in a vote by Blackwell’s booksellers across the country to be named Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-01 15:21:12 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #elif shafak #book of the year


Profile pre-empts story of Daphne Caruana Galizia by her sons

Profile Books has pre-empted a book about anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered in a car bomb attack in Malta two years ago. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 22:22:19 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #profile books


Haynes seeks buyer to secure future

Car manual publisher Haynes Publishing Group PLC is seeking a buyer for the company and all its subsidiaries in the interests of "securing a bright, new future for the group". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-14 15:18:28 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #secure future


Profiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous

A WARNING By Anonymous. Twelve. 259 pp. $30 There is a good reason the anonymous Trump administration official who published an opinion essay in the New Y... Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-13 20:45:27 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #good reason


Positive Pursuits: Headbands of Hope Founder’s Commitment to Optimism

Jess Ekstrom’s ‘Chasing the Bright Side’ details the positivity and sense of humor that has helped propel her life and informs the mission of her charity for cancer patients, Headbands of Hope. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #bright side #helped propel


Castrén hopes new formats will boost Finnish market five years after guest spot

The head of Otava Publishing, one of Finland’s largest books beasts as well as an owner of its biggest bookshop chain, says the domestic market has been ‘bipolar’—but reckons new formats present a massive opportunity for brave publishers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 03:01:17 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #domestic market #bookshop


Author Profile: Jim Field

Jim Field makes his author-illustrator début with the perfect picture book for budding language learners. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 20:29:18 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #author profile #jim field #picture book


Greystone and Profile land seaweed tale

Greystone Books and Profile Books will publish Seaweed by poet and artist Miek Zwamborn next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 18:30:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #greystone books #profile books


Author Profile: Colson Whitehead

A lauded but not very lucrative writing career was turned on its head for Colson Whitehead, after Pulitzer and National Book Award wins put his name in lights. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 17:16:59 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #author profile #colson whitehead #national book award