Graphic designer Vanessa Savage from Glamorgan has won Myriad’s 2016 First Drafts Competition for previously unpublished writers. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frog Education has won an ICT Company of the Year award at BETT 2015. The company, which won the award for firms with turnover of between £1-10m, makes education technology and recently launched FrogProgress, a tool that allows teachers to assess pupils’ progress digitally. “We are... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jhumpa Lahiri has won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 for The Lowland, published in the UK by Bloomsbury. Lahiri was named the winner of the $50,000 prize at the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival taking place in India this week. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is open to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Netflix-for-magazines race continues… The post More Competition in the All-You-Can-Read Magazine Market appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors Francesca Simon, Malorie Blackman (pictured), Charlie Higson and Frank Cottrell Boyce are among the judges of this year’s 500 Words children’s short story writing competition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Myriad has appointed Louisa Pritchard to head up its international rights, taking over from Adrian Weston. Pritchard is the founder of LPA, which sells international rights on behalf of agencies and publishers. She previously worked as head of rights at PFD, foreign rights director at Orion and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Blue Peter" will today (15th January) launch a competition to take three children into MI5 headquarters. Anthony Horowitz, author of the spy series Alex Rider (Walker Books), will help choose the winners. Children aged 8-14 can apply online to become CBBC Intelligence Officers as part of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Harsent has won the T S Eliot Prize for his collection Fire Songs, published by Faber. It is the the poet's first win, after being five times shortlisted for the prize. Harsent beat nine other poets to secure the prize, include three previous winners, John Burnside, Michael Longley and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Buzzfeed, HuffPo, Mashable and Vice have all set up in the U.K. Agencies weigh in on their collective impact. The post Why British publishers don’t sweat new US competition appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Seren Press is reprinting Costa Poetry Award winner My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards, after the book sold out on Amazon.co.uk. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired two books by a debut novelist at auction. Francesca Best, commissioning editor at Hodder, bought world rights to My Everything and one other novel by Katie Marsh from Hannah Ferguson at the Hardman & Swainson Agency. My Everything is about Hannah, an... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booktrust and the BBC have launched a short story competition for teenagers. The ‘BBC Young Writers’ Award with Booktrust’ is for teen writers (aged 14-18) of short stories, on any topic, of up to a 1,000 words. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On Monday, December 15, Apple will finally get their crack at overturning their 2013 ebook price-fixing judgment, with oral arguments scheduled before the Second Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book about animals illustrated with infographics has won the 2014 Educational Writers’ Award. The £2,000 prize was presented to Jon Richards and Ed Simkins for The World in Infographics: Animal Kingdom (Wayland) by Tristram Hunt, shadow secretary of state for education, at a ceremony... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unpublished author Tara Guha has won the 2014 Luke Bitmead Writer's Bursary, winning £2,500 and a publishing contract with Legend Press. Guha won the bursary for her debut novel Absent, which will now be published in November 2015. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist, a debut novel inspired by a dollhouse in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, is named Waterstones Book of the Year. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anneliese Mackintosh’s Any Other Mouth (Freight Books) has won the Green Carnation Prize 2014. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A book exploring digital life has won the top prize at the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction. Laurence Scott was awarded with the £10,000 prize for his book The Four Dimensional Human, to be published by William Heinemann in summer 2015, at John Murray's house in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams’ Awful Auntie (HarperCollins Children’s) has been named Children’s Book of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards, making it the third time in a row the author has won the honour. The awards, presented today (26th November) at a ceremony at the Foreign Office in London... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry wins an outstanding achievement award at the Specsavers National Book Awards Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish author Colin Barrett wins the Guardian First Book Award for his debut collection of short stories, Young Skins. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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