Snake charmer: Sarah Perry on The Essex Serpent

The winner of the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent has taken the literary world by storm. The author discusses her ascent with Alice O’Keeffe. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Essex libraries saved after council U-turn in triumph for campaigners

Essex County Council has announced it is ditching plans to close its libraries and their future is secure for the next five years following a huge community campaign, supported by authors including David Walliams and Jacqueline Wilson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 00:31:48 UTC ]
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Campaigners in new bid to save Essex library services

Library campaigners are calling on Essex County Council to launch a new consultation on the future of its libraries in a new bid to save the services.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-08 10:24:45 UTC ]
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Twitter Users Have Field Day With Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Book News

The former White House press secretary was taunted with suggested titles for her reported upcoming book about working for Donald Trump. Continue reading at HuffPost

[ HuffPost | 2019-07-02 10:41:02 UTC ]
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Things to Do While You Wait for Netflix’s Sarah Dessen Adaptations

What to do while you wait for Netflix’s Sarah Dessen Adaptations: Obviously, get thee to a bookstore and read her ... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-06-29 10:31:00 UTC ]
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Serpent's Tail snaps up 'devastating' memoir from Fuller

Serpent’s Tail will publish a new memoir by British-Zimbabwean author Alexandra Fuller. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-13 15:11:33 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2019: Sarah J. Maas's Whole New World

“It was all about the story. The story I couldn’t stop thinking about, the one I was the most excited to write,” says Sarah J. Maas, best known for her two YA series Throne of Glass and Court of Thorns and Roses, of her decision to create her first epic fantasy series for adults. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum signs six-figure two-book deal with FSG

Chinese American writer Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is causing waves across the Atlantic with an auction and six-figure deal for two books with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as buzz around a UK deal begins. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-24 01:13:28 UTC ]
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Clarke strikes two-book deal with Serpent's Tail

Serpent’s Tail has bought two books from British novelist James Clarke, including "an extraordinary portrait of a Lancashire valley and its inhabitants". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gosling's debut snapped up by Serpent's Tail

Serpent’s Tail has signed the "remarkable" debut novel by Victoria Gosling, a British author currently living in Berlin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Art Connects Us: Sarah Odedina

As a recipient of the Arts Connects Us Grant I travelled to Ghana and Sierra Leone to meet with writers and publishing professionals working in the field of books for young readers to foster creative and collaborative exchanges between those contacts and publishing professionals and readers in... Continue reading at British Council global

[ British Council global | 2019-03-19 11:10:28 UTC ]
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Sarah Winman moves to Fourth Estate

Sarah Winman has been poached from Headline: her new novel, about a young British soldier who inherits the top two floors of an old palazzo, will be published by Fourth Estate. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jewess joins Serpent's Tail from Titan Books

Serpent’s Tail has appointed Titan Books' Miranda Jewess to run the Serpent’s Tail crime list. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Serpent's Tail wins Columbia academic's 'lavish' black history in five-way auction

Serpent’s Tail triumphed in a five-publisher auction, winning Columbia professor Saidiya Hartman’s "radical and lavish" history of young black women, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter’s Sarah Personette: Video and ‘brand purpose’ will continue to take center stage

Twitter’s been on a tear to prove that even with a smaller audience than Facebook and YouTube, it can be a worthwhile destination for ads and publishers. The post Twitter’s Sarah Personette: Video and ‘brand purpose’ will continue to take center stage appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2018-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Pictures options Sarah Govett’s The Territory

Production company New Pictures has optioned the TV and film rights to Sarah Govett’s YA novel The Territory (Firefly Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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25 Essex libraries earmarked for closure

A third of Essex's libraries could close within the next five years, according to a report released by the county's council. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah McLean joins Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury has appointed Sarah McLean as international sales director with responsibility for the adult trade, adult special interest and children’s lists. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah J Maas to visit the UK

YA fantasy author Sarah J Maas will visit the UK this week to take part in events in London and Edinburgh. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto acquires Sadie Jones's first contemporary novel, 'The Snakes'

Chatto & Windus has signed an "unflinching" new novel from Sadie Jones called The Snakes, telling the story of a marriage and a family whose sins come back to bite them.  Publishing director Clara Farmer, who dubbed it a pacy novel of "tight plot turns and urgent moral questioning",... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Serpent's Tail signs 'America’s last remaining dissident writer'

On the eve of US President Donald Trump’s official visit to the UK, Serpent’s Tail has acquired a new novel by "America’s last remaining dissident writer", Jarett Kobek, author of I Hate the Internet. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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