Books from writers including Man Booker-longlisted author Sally Rooney, former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton and Penguin editor Henry Eliot have made the shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2018. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson and Harvard Business Review Press are both strong on the 25-strong shortlist for the £5,000 2017 Management Book of the Year, announced by The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the British Library. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Flame collects unpublished poetry, as well as notebook entries and song lyrics, and offers ‘an intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist’A book of Leonard Cohen’s final poems, completed in the months before his death and tackling “the flame and how our culture threatened... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book sales at trade houses rose 2.4% in May 2017 for the first time since 2015, according to new figures released by the Association of American Publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judy Murray's memoir will battle it out with a biography on Muhammad Ali and “Four mums in a Boat” for the £29,000 Willimn Hill Sport Book of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ten years after its founding and four after its acquisition by Amazon, the online social reading, marketing, and book discovery site has grown into one of the most influential bookish communities on the web. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Preliminary numbers are finally out for Hillary Clinton’s newly released book, What Happened, and sales are doing quite well. According to the Associated Press, the book has already sold more than 300,000 copies–which includes hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. The hard copy sales, however, are... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"It's funny, as people ask me that all the time, and I just wish I was more interesting." Min Jin Lee is talking about the similarities between herself and the main character in her 2007 debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires. Published again this month after the success earlier this year of... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Beginning September 27, you can read English translations of excerpts from the six shortlisted German Book Prize titles at the 'New Books in German' site. The post €25,000 German Book Prize Shortlist Is Out: Award Coincides With Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Roald Dahl's last children's book finally gets the Sir Quentin Blake treatment after 26 years. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Ukrainian ban on Russian-language book imports is seen as contributing to closures and consolidations. Surviving publishers are reported struggling. The post Ukraine Publishing Industry’s Bad Year: Closures Amid Kiev’s Russian Book Ban appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Baby and toddler book Where's Mr Lion has been crowned 'book of the year' at the Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti has expressed support for Kamila Shamsie’s proposal for a Year of Publishing Women in 2018 ahead of the publication of her feminist call to arms, in favour of "radical solutions” to address the pervasive problem of gender inequality worldwide. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magabala Books was born in 1984, when a group of Indigenous elders from the Kimberley in Western Australia decided to establish their own publishing house focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and illustrators, and telling Indigenous stories. Magabala publishes for a general... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan imprint Boxtree is publishing a new unauthorised oral history of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off "Angel", called Slayers and Vampires, to mark the 20th anniversary of the original cult '90s TV show. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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George R R Martin has revealed he is “months away” from finishing the next Game of Thrones novel but said it could be published next year alongside another series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Contenders for this year’s Diagram prize also include An Ape’s View of Evolution and a must-have volume for ‘Australian coin error collectors’Nipples on My Knee by Graham and Debra Robertson, a memoir of “25 years in the sheep business”, is the fleecy frontrunner for the the 2017 Diagram prize... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloody Scotland today (20th June) revealed the longlist for the McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kit de Waal has won the €15,000 (£13,100) Kerry Group Irish Book of the Year for her "heartfelt and far-sighted" fiction work My Name is Leon (Viking). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship has joined the Banned Books Week Coalition as the first international member of the US-based alliance. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picturebook maker Chris Haughton has won the 27th Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award for his "captivating" book Goodnight Everyone (Walker Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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