Chatto & Windus has "beaten stiff competition" at auction to secure rights to Stopping Places: Tracing the Old Gypsy Ways across Modern Britain by Damian Le Bas. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has signed Letters to Camondo, an “extraordinary” book penned by Edmund de Waal during the first lockdown that tells the story of the Jewish Camondo family in Paris. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-07 20:38:23 UTC ]
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Icon Books has signed Ben Aitken's account of spending lockdown as companion to an 84-year-old, described as "an intimate portrait of an unlikely friendship". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 13:13:21 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has scored The Captain’s Apprentice: Biography of a Song by Caroline Davison, to publish for the 150th anniversary of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 02:19:34 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Child's Play will publish two more picture books by Romani author Richard O’Neill, as part of his Romani Tales series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 20:26:51 UTC ]
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Part ghost story, part mystery, “The Thirty Names of Night” is also an exposé on systemic racism and an honest account of the LGBTQ and refugee experience. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-23 11:57:29 UTC ]
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The painter known to many as Lucian Freud's one-time muse writes of her own muse, her mother, and provers herself a masterful writer as well. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-11-10 18:28:13 UTC ]
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Berryman, who won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award, struggled with addiction and despair that also fueled his work. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-22 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Craig Brown’s biographical method — combining fragments, lists, excerpts, quotes and flights of whimsy — is executed brilliantly. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has won a six-way auction for organic food grower Claire Ratinon's “beautiful and moving” memoir Unearthed: On Race and Roots, How the Soil Taught Me I Belong. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 23:59:18 UTC ]
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This November Chatto & Windus will publish a collection of lockdown stories and experiences from BBC Radio 4’s "PM", with a foreword from the programme's presenter Evan Davis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 13:23:06 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Caravel, in partnership with NHS Charities Together, is publishing Portraits for NHS Heroes this November after the success of artist Tom Croft’s #PortraitsForNHSHeroes project. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-14 23:35:46 UTC ]
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Faber is to publish The Nolan Variations: Movies, Mysteries and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone this autumn. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-25 18:15:35 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has signed activist and author Caroline Criado Perez's follow-up to the award-winning bestseller Invisible Women (also Chatto). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-03 04:14:52 UTC ]
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Faber is to publish a biography of the blues singer Bessie Smith, by Scotland's national poet laureate Jackie Kay. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 13:37:50 UTC ]
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Audur Ava Olafsdottir does a brilliant job of conveying Icelandic life — its harshness, its connection to the land and to history, and its amusing qualities. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-16 08:29:45 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has bought another book from Christie Watson, nurse and bestselling author of The Language of Kindness (Chatto). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-20 10:43:53 UTC ]
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Natalie Wood's daughter, actress Natasha Gregson Wagner, has written a memoir of life with the legend and produced an HBO documentary about her career. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-05-05 15:00:49 UTC ]
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The second volume of Jed Perl’s definitive biography is as smart and stout as the first. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-08 11:47:09 UTC ]
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Long before Tinder, there was Jane Austen, warning your dates and their families that you looked nothing like your picture: in this instance, her subject was Mary Pearson, a portrait of whom has recently been discovered and acquired by Jane Austen’s House museum. Pearson, who likely inspired... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-07 15:55:45 UTC ]
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