Comedian lambasted for declaring he had never voted will urge readers to 'discard apathy and challenge status quo' in new bookMarx had the Communist Manifesto, Mao his Little Red Book. Now, the comedian Russell Brand, who caused a storm with his declaration that he had never voted and never would, is to issue his political manifesto on how to "establish a personal and global utopia".His mission, said Century, publishers of his new book, was to urge readers to "discard apathy and challenge the status quo", by offering his views on "inequality, rioting, financial meltdown, and the total mistrust of politicians".Brand attracted fierce criticism when he told Jeremy Paxman that he refused to vote because the UK's political system had created a "disenfranchised, disillusioned underclass" that it failed to serve.During his BBC Newsnight appearance, which became one of the UK's 10 most-watched YouTube clips, he argued: "It is not that I am not voting out of apathy. I am not voting out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations."He has further espoused his views on revolution in interviews and in an essay for the New Statesman.The author of My Booky Wook and Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal said of his new, as yet untitled book: "People keep asking me how the revolution will work?"'We all want to bring down the government and establish a personal and global utopia, but... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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The 2020 Singapore Book Awards include three newly added digital-publishing categories including audiobook, ebook, and digital marketing. The post Singapore Book Awards 2020: A Dessert Guide Wins Book of the Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Penguin is to release a series of audio study guides to accompany key English literature A-level texts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-11 19:08:23 UTC ]
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Faliveno is an excellent essayist, expertly braiding seemingly disparate threads into engrossing tales. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Singer Tina Turner has written a guide to life using Buddhist principles, to be published by HarperCollins. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A brief guide to the evolution of comic book art styles, from the early days of comic strips to present day. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Century will publish Five Minute Therapy by Sarah Crosby, a.k.a. Instagrammer @TheMindGeek, in December 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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W&N has acquired "a toolkit for understanding numbers in the media" by cousins Tom and David Chivers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-30 20:45:17 UTC ]
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Chris Kane's job is to take a look at a brand's digital ad buys to see where there are overlaps that can be eliminated to improve the efficiency of the entire strategy. But in order to do that, brands have to understand exactly what they're buying through each exchange. Kane, founder and... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Penguin Business will publish The Business Survival Kit by Byron Cole and Bianca Miller-Cole. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Looking for book club questions and a reading guide for THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin?We've got your next meeting covered. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-07-23 10:34:11 UTC ]
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The IPG is to provide members of the Singapore Book Publishers Association with the use of the Skills Hub, as part of a new licensing agreement. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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With most live sports on hold for the past several months, sports media publishers have had to stretch their imaginations to find interesting stories to show and tell. Wave.tv, a digital media company built around working with license holders to repackage archival sports, hopes to invest more in... Continue reading at AdWeek
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We've got plot summary, themes, and ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE book club questions for this popular book club title. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Fourth Estate has bought journalist Lorraine Candy's first book, a “candid, helpful and hilarious” guide to the many unexpected challenges of mothering teenage girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-16 16:51:35 UTC ]
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Wildfire has won a seven-way auction for "an inspiring, thought-provoking and moving" book that, exploring human desire, takes the reader behind the closed doors of a therapy session. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Michael O’Mara Books will publish Breathe Out: A Creative Guide to Happiness for Teen Minds in association with mental health charity Mind. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-15 13:34:05 UTC ]
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Russell may no longer be a household name, but his novels — popular in the later Victorian era — are worth revisiting. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Rampant keyword blocking is a symptom of the open marketplace, but news publisher pages are dense and they won’t be pulling inventory out anytime soon. The post ‘Blockers are an industry stopper’: CNN sharpens its contextual tool for the brand safety fight appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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H. G. Wells helped pioneer science fiction with his 1898 book The War of the Worlds. Many iterations later, it still scares and fascinates us. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2020-07-06 19:54:21 UTC ]
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Laurence King Publishing is branching out with the first standalone volume of Virginia Woolf’s essay How Should One Read a Book? featuring a new introduction and afterword by author Sheila Heti. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 10:27:44 UTC ]
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