Collection of short pieces, which has been in the works for more than a decade, takes stock of The Snowman author’s lifeRaymond Briggs is one of the UK’s most beloved children’s authors, the creator of characters from The Snowman to Fungus the Bogeyman. But in his forthcoming book Time for Lights Out, a “head-on” confrontation with old age and death, he describes himself as nothing more than a “long-haired, artsy-fartsy type” who “did pictures for kiddy books / Or some such tripe”.The collection of short pieces, which has been in the works for more than a decade, will be published in November by Jonathan Cape, it was announced on Wednesday. Illustrated with Briggs’s pencil drawings, Time for Lights Out starts from the 85-year-old’s school days and his time as an evacuee during the second world war, touching on his memories of his parents and his childhood home. Related: Raymond Briggs: ‘There could be another world war. Terrifying, isn’t it?’ Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker-winning author Anne Enright’s next novel, Actress, about sexual power and celebrity, will be published by Jonathan Cape in February 2020. Jonathan Cape publisher Robin Robertson acquired UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada from Peter Straus of Rogers, Coleridge & White... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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My friend George Richardson, who has died aged 94, spent most of his working life at Oxford University, including as chief executive of Oxford University Press (OUP) from the mid-1970s to the late 80s.He was born in Cricklewood, north London, to Christina, a homemaker, and George, a businessman.... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Irish writer Megan Nolan's debut novel has just sold to Jonathan Cape in a pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Harvill Secker has picked up an "astonishing" novel from Ciarán McMenamin set in Ireland after the First World War. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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As the world verges on World War I, the battle of the sexes rages in “Kopp Sisters on the March.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Dan Franklin, associate publisher at Jonathan Cape, is due to retire after 26 years at the Vintage imprint. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jonathan Cape has scooped UK and Commonwealth rights to Frances Leviston’s story collection The Voice in My Ear. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jonathan Cape will publish a book by author Ben Rawlence about what trees can "tell us about the future of our planet”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Older generations argue that young people’s insistence on equality in all things – including books – threatens to stifle free speech. But is that always true?I wouldn’t normally air my dirty literary linen in public, but here goes. When I finished writing my novel Putney, about a 13-year-old... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-10 10:03:01 UTC ]
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Ana Fletcher, senior editor at Jonathan Cape, has bought two books from Man Booker-shortlisted author Daisy Johnson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Matthew Stanley describes an international effort during World War I to support his most famous theory. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Jonathan Cape will publish "a far-reaching and wonderfully entertaining investigation" into animal rights by award-winning Financial Times journalist Henry Mance following a six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-18 00:53:19 UTC ]
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Judith Kerr, a refugee from Nazi Germany who wrote and illustrated the bestselling "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" and other beloved children's books, has died at her home in London. She was 95. The author died Wednesday after a brief illness, said Charlie Redmayne, chief executive at... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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A blaze ripped through Ashdown Forest, the setting for British author A.A. Milne's beloved children's books. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
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Imperial War Museums will launch a new classic fiction series this September to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, the Imperial War Museums Wartime Classics series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jonathan Cape will publish Salman Rushdie’s new Don Quixote-inspired novel, Quichotte, in August. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jonathan Cape's Dan Franklin has said he wouldn't be able to publish Vladimir Nabokov's controversial classic Lolita - about a man's obsession with a 12-year-old girl - were he to be offered it today, because of the #MeToo phenomenon and changing attitudes among a younger generation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Bloomsbury UK and US have both pre-empted on the first novel by award-winning short fiction writer L Annette Binder, inspired by her own family’s experience under the Third Reich. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jonathan Cape has triumphed in a five-way auction for award-winning evolutionary biologist Nichola Raihani’s debut Together: How Cooperation Shaped Humankind. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jonathan Cape will publish Raymond Briggs' long-awaited Time for Lights Out in November, 13 years after the illustrator and author started work on the book about age and death. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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