Salman Rushdie and Jenni Fagan are among the authors shortlisted for the £10,000 James Tait... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As Crown Publishing predicted, readers eagerly anticipated Michelle Obama’s Becoming. Autobiography and memoir are best selling categories because virtually everyone enjoys learning about the private life of public figures. In this case, many were curious about the woman who seemed to rise above... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2020-08-12 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Easu McCaulley takes on the 'barbershop or barbeque questions' Black people have about how the Bible addresses their lives —and reveals God's love. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Raven Leilani’s debut novel follows an interracial, intergenerational affair as it leads to an unusual redefinition of family. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-08-06 09:00:04 UTC ]
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The 2020 Crime Writer's Association Dagger Awards shortlist has been announced, with Mick Herron's Joe Country (John Murray), Claire Askew's What You Pay For (Hodder & Stoughton) and Abir Mukherjee's Death in the East (Harvill Secker) in contention for the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-06 01:27:54 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has acquired Everyone Versus Racism—a book by Patrick Hutchinson, who was photographed carrying an injured white man during London's Black Lives Matter protests. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 17:18:36 UTC ]
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At Random House and elsewhere, including his own Summit imprint, he worked with James Baldwin, Marilyn French, Hunter S. Thompson and many others. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-08-01 18:32:40 UTC ]
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Analysis: Murdoch was considered a dissenting voice at the rightwing company. Now his brother Lachlan could see his influence growJames Murdoch’s resignation from the board of News Corp confirms divisive splits in the publishing arm of his family’s media empire and removes a powerful dissenting... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-08-01 18:24:26 UTC ]
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James Murdoch, son of News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, is resigning from the family-controlled newspaper publisher’s board Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2020-07-31 22:55:44 UTC ]
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Teenage conservationist Dara McAnulty and author Jini Reddy are among the writers shortlisted for this year's Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-29 21:04:07 UTC ]
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Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love for BBC One and Amazon Studios will star Lily James, Dominic West, Emily Beecham and Andrew Scott, among others. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 16:27:08 UTC ]
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More than 150 staff at DK took part in the publisher’s annual charity walk this year, raising money for The Black Curriculum, a social enterprise founded to address the lack of black British history in the UK curriculum. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-26 12:15:19 UTC ]
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The shortlists for both the Photography and Moving Image Book Awards of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation are this year dominated by the theme of identity. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-24 15:31:14 UTC ]
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As a black publicist with more than seven years in culture and entertainment publicity, I have sat in many all-white creative meetings where the genuine answer to making a campaign diverse was to give Stormzy a call (before that it was Tinie Tempah). If you are serious about diversity and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-24 03:36:15 UTC ]
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As a child, Asha Grant didn't know where to find books about people who looked like her. Next year she'll open that place, the Salt Eaters, in Inglewood. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-07-23 14:00:39 UTC ]
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Lemn Sissay, Lisa Taddeo and Paul Mendez are among the six-strong shortlist for this year's Gordon Burn Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 14:15:36 UTC ]
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The Literary Consultancy is partnering with Ellah P Wakatama, editor-at-large at Canongate, to launch the TLC Scholarship. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-19 14:43:29 UTC ]
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Princeton’s Eddie S. Glaude Jr. argues that the 1960s writer has prescient words for us. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Last week I had the honour of being a panelist on a webinar about publishing values in 2020. I listened to the various publishers, both big and small, in the UK and abroad talk about the challenges and opportunities brought by the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic. Everyone is talking... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-17 11:16:02 UTC ]
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Last week I had the honour of being a panelist on a webinar about publishing values in 2020. I listened to the various publishers, both big and small, in the UK and abroad talk about the challenges and opportunities brought by the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic. Everyone is talking... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-16 14:10:29 UTC ]
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Bonnier Books UK is releasing 500 Words: Black Lives Matter, a book featuring short stories children have submitted to a Chris Evans-devised Virgin Radio competition this month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-16 10:43:26 UTC ]
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