Crime author Sophie Hannah is to write a new Agatha Christie novel, featuring the author's... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Writing Day is launching a bank of online writing resources for students, as part of a campaign to encourage them to write during lockdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 22:46:41 UTC ]
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Holly Jackson answers our questions about her debut novel, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (Egmont), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 07:49:12 UTC ]
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Canongate has promoted Hannah Knowles to editorial director, as Vicki Rutherford becomes the company's first head of editorial management. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 04:08:04 UTC ]
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A new biography of crime writer H R F Keating will be published by Level Best Books in April. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 00:02:45 UTC ]
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This is Personal Space: The Memoir Show, with Sari Botton. On this episode, Sari talks with Alia Volz, the author of reported, historical memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco — about being raised by colorful hippie parents who ran an illegal pot-brownie... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-23 20:00:24 UTC ]
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Holly Bourne answers our questions about her YA novel tackling toxic relationships, The Places I've Cried in Public (Usborne), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 08:58:47 UTC ]
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The 12-strong longlist for this year's Spread the Word Life Writing Prize has been announced, with the prize open to UK writers who do not have an agent or have yet to publish a full-length work. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 20:48:32 UTC ]
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Writing doesn’t pay. According to a report released last year by the Royal Society for Literature and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, most writers earn below the minimum wage. The numbers are stark: two thirds of writers earn between £100 and £10,000. Only 5% of writers can expect... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 05:32:29 UTC ]
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Poet Carol Ann Duffy and the Manchester Writing School have launched an international poetry project in response to the coronavirus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-19 14:30:11 UTC ]
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Once upon a time Ken Kesey wrote an endearing tale about a wily squirrel and a hungry bear. The unlikely picture book was one of two written by Kesey nearly three decades after his well-known 1962 novel set in a psychiatric hospital, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Who knew? Kesey—as well as... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-17 08:48:38 UTC ]
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Jenny Downham answers our questions about her latest YA novel, Furious Thing (David Fickling Books), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. 1. Can you sum up Furious Thing in one sentence? There are many ways a girl’s sense of self can be whittled away — this book explores what... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-16 09:06:03 UTC ]
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Bernardine Evaristo, Amelia Gentleman and Kate Clanchy are among the longlisted authors for this year's Orwell Prize for Political Writing and Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 16:58:58 UTC ]
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The University of East Anglia (UEA) has announced a major strand of its ambitious CW50 anniversary campaign, which celebrates 50 years of creative writing at UEA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-01 15:44:04 UTC ]
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The prodigious Anthony Horowitz has three books slated for 2020, each of which is packed with the writer’s trademark plot twists and hidden messages Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-27 06:53:44 UTC ]
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Piccadilly Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has signed author-illustrator Hannah Peck to its list for her debut three-book series of children’s fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-16 17:30:10 UTC ]
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers has launched a non-fiction writing prize for trans and non-binary writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 09:48:12 UTC ]
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In this episode, writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit reflects on her new memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence. Solnit talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the deep impact of gendered violence on daily life and what it means to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-12 08:49:53 UTC ]
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“Young Heroes of the Soviet Union,” by Alex Halberstadt, is a moving and often funny memoir about the author’s family and their history. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-03-11 16:29:22 UTC ]
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Today, Simon & Schuster announced their acquisition of the first book by Michael Schur, creator of postmodern morality play and philosophical sitcom The Good Place, otherwise known as the best thing on television for a while there. How to Be Good: A Definitive Answer for Exactly What to Do,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-10 16:57:41 UTC ]
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Authors including Cressida Cowell, Damian Barr and Sophie Hannah will take part in Independent Bookshop Week (IBW). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 23:53:15 UTC ]
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