Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram's "truly powerful" book Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins) has won the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Egmont Group, the Scandinavian media group that owns Egmont Publishing, said 2015 was a "satisfactory” year, as revenues increased 1.5% to €1.6bn (£1.25bn). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cathy Rentzenbrink and Stephen Silberman are among six shortlisted authors for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize, awarded annually to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction whose central theme "engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Academy of British Cover Design hosted its third annual awards at the beginning of March, championing the best in British book livery. Co-founders Jamie Keenan and Jon Gray tell Danny Arter how ABCD came to be and why its awards evening is unique. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dodgers 6, Chicago Cubs 5 Dodgers 8, Seattle 4 (10 innings) AT THE PLATE: The Dodgers beat the Cubs by scoring twice in the bottom of the ninth — on a game-tying walk with the bases loaded, then a walk-off walk. Austin Barnes, the third catcher on a team that might carry only two catchers, hit... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has signed a global publishing deal for The Girl from the Savoy by historical novelist Hazel Gaynor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publishers Bloomsbury Children’s and David Fickling Books are leading the shortlist for this year’s Bookseller’s YA Book Prize, run in association with book printer Clays. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The longlist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 has been revealed, including two Nobel Prize winners, two previous finalists and two debut authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Lionel Shriver has said literary prizes just for women are "problematic", while calling International Women's Day "creepy" at an event to mark the occasion. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Echoing a famous Woody Allen line, a French literary prize jumps right past the opening of the book and over to page 112 in a bid to find the best work. The post Prize Pivot: France’s ‘Judge it on Page 112’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book publishers can apply by April 4, 2016 for translation funding for works originally published in Spanish, Basque, Catalan or Galician. The post Translation Funding Available from Spain’s Ministry of Culture appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape is publishing BRIT(ish): Getting Under the Skin of Britain’s Race Problem by Afua Hirsch, social affairs editor for Sky News. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Syrian author Samar Yazbek has made the Orwell Prize longlist for The Crossing, which tells of the journalist’s attempts to get back into her country after being exiled by president Bashar al-Assad. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Iona Grey has been honoured with the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s "highest accolade", The Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year, for her book Letters to the Lost (Simon & Schuster). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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http://www.thebookseller.com/news/baileys-renews-women-s-prize-fiction-sponsorship-323395Kate Atkinson and Hanya Yanagihara are among the 20 longlisted authors for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, announced today. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sceptre is publishing a prize-winning and bestselling Swedish debut novel by poet Tom Malmquist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mary Beard and James Shapiro are among the authors who have made the English PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History shortlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over a book-writing career of more than three decades I have produced a number of well received books with very modest sales mainly on European and international political themes. But never have I had a book - Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe (I.B.Tauris) - go through two editions in just... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon Puttock, Ross MacKenzie and Danny Weston have been revealed as the winners of the 2016 Scottish Children’s Book Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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During a ceremony on Wednesday night, Jill Leovy took home the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award in nonfiction for 'Ghettoside,' while Mia Alvar won in fiction for 'In the Country.' The award, which honors debut works, is now in its 26th year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The consumer, not the print magazine, now resides at the hub of the business model. The post The Untold Story of How Magazine Media is Winning appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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