Quercus snaps up Brathwaite's 'inspirational' guide to black motherhood

Quercus has snapped up an “urgent and inspirational” guide to life as a black mother from Candice Brathwaite. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-04 15:40:35 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury snaps up 'essential' Anne Frank collection

Bloomsbury Continuum will publish Anne Frank: The Collected Works next May, in the year that she would have celebrated her 90th birthday. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac wins 10-way auction for Raz's business guide

Pan Macmillan has won a 10-way auction to publish a book on the "entrepreneurial path", How I Built This, from business podcaster Guy Raz. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Avon snaps up four books from open submissions

HarperCollins will publish a debut novel, A Woman of War by midwife Mandy Robotham, along with three other titles, following its first open submissions scheme. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Deadline approaching for Spring Buyer's Guides submissions

The deadline for publishers to submit free listings for the Spring Buyer’s Guides is this Friday 2nd November. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brandes honoured as 'influential black Briton' for second year

Jacaranda Books founder Valerie Brandes has been named one of the 100 most influential black Britons for the second year in a row. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Flame: A fresh perspective on Leonard Cohen and the island that inspired him

This week sees the release of Leonard Cohen's posthumous volume The Flame: Poems and Selections. Among the song lyrics and notebook extracts that comprise the book are selections of new poetry, much of it touching on ageing and mortality, but not without characteristic humour. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harper Thorsons buys myth-busting cervical guide from the 'Gynae Geek'

HarperCollins will publish The Gynae Geek by NHS doctor Dr Anita Mitra, which opens conversations about gynaecological health. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bluebird to publish food bank-inspired recipe book from Jack Monroe

Pan Macmillan will publish Jack Monroe’s fifth book, Tin Can Cook, about using tinned or dried ingredients, inspired by her experience of using food banks. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Byng snaps up tale of ex-publisher's drugs battle

Canongate c.e.o. Jamie Byng has bought a memoir of a former publisher in the US whose life descended into "drug-fuelled chaos". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Avon snaps up Williams' 'love story of near-misses'

HarperCollins' Avon imprint has acquired world all languages rights for a debut novel from journalist and author Laura Jane Williams. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coates’s ‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ to Be Published by Historic Black Press in France

In a gesture of support for independent black publishing in France, National Book Award–winner Ta-Nehisi Coates and his U.S. publisher, One World, have released the French edition of his latest bestseller through Editions Présence Africaine. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Raven snaps up Mayhew's 'brilliantly dark thriller'

Raven Books has bought the first adult novel, billed as "The Crucible" meets “The Craft”, from YA author Julie Mayhew. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tuesday Wake-Up Call: Netflix's 'Black Mirror' storytelling experiment, and Google's new ad chief

Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. Get all the news on Advertising Week each evening this week in our pop-up email newsletter. Sign up right here What people are talking about today: Remember the "Choose Your Own Adventure"... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus pre-empts new espionage history from Henry Hemming

Quercus has pre-empted a new book by espionage historian Henry Hemming: Our Man in New York. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Industry Notes: Marrakesh Treaty; Bologna Carle Award; Kids’ Black Detectives in the UK

The United States is ready for implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty, pending a presidential signature. Meanwhile, Bologna gets an award and Knights Of gets a new book series. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson 40 Nations Have Ratified and Implemented Marrakesh he... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adweek’s Jeff Litvack on Using Innovation to Inspire Staffers

Adweek’s CEO is implementing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to drive the brand in becoming an industry educator. Over the past two years, Jeff Litvack has worked to diversify and strengthen Adweek’s revenue stream, while developing a staff of hand-selected, self-motivators. By... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Life pre-empts 'go-to guide' for gut health

Penguin Life has pre-empted the first book of dietitian Dr Megan Rossi, The Gut Health Doctor, sharing strategies for improving gut health. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Black Girls' Book Club talks brunch, booze and books

We spoke to Melissa Cummings-Quarry, co-founder of the Black Girls Book Club, about the club's plans for the future and thoughts on diversity in the publishing industry. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury to publish 'inspiring memoir' from fashion designer Jenny Packham

Ebury Press has acquired the first book by fashion designer Jenny Packham - a meditation on the power of clothes and why we love them, titled How to Make a Dress. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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