Affair between drama student and an older actor will feature in The Lesser Bohemians, due from Faber next autumn following award-winner A Girl is a Half-Formed ThingIt took Eimear McBride almost a decade to find a publisher for her first novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Now, a year after she won the Baileys prize for fiction, the Irish novelist has been signed up by Faber for her second, a work which the publisher predicted would be “one of the most anticipated second novels of recent years”.The Lesser Bohemians will be published next autumn. Set in the bedsits and squats of mid-1990s north London, it will tell the story of an 18-year-old girl who has come to London from Ireland to study drama, and who embarks on a “tumultuous” relationship with an older actor. Faber said it was a “story about love and innocence, joy and discovery – the grip of the past and the struggle to be new again”. Related: Eimear McBride's novel doesn't fit any terms we use to categorise writing | John Sutherland Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has set up a book club on the social networking site, attracting more than 120,000 likes in three days. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Libraries minister Ed Vaizey has created a new task force to help develop the library service in England, at the recommendation of today's Sieghart report. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Enthusiasm for reading among Mexico's younger population, and the country's fondness for US and UK writers, are reasons for foreign publishers to take note of the country, according to Roberto Banchik Rothschild, c.e.o. of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial for Mexico, Central America and the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sugg's debut book, 'Girl Online,' now holds the record for the highest sales in its first week for a new writer in the UK. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eimear McBride has claimed another award for her debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press), winning the 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. The book, written in a stream-of-consciousness style, is narrated by a young woman growing up in Ireland under the dark influence of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Multinational publishers know that regional book editions increase their options for selling titles, especially in the education segment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage has released an exclusive box set of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series with Waterstones this week. The set comprises paperback editions of the first three books in the series, A Death in the Family, A Man in Love and Boyhood Island, priced at £19.99. Chris White, fiction buyer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate will publish a new novel by Jonathan Franzen next year, titled Purity. The HarperCollins imprint confirmed it would publish simultaneously with US publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which plans to release Purity in September next year. Nicholas Pearson, publishing director at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon and Hachette Book Group have resolved their dispute over ebook prices and physical book sales with a multiyear agreement in the U.S., ending a standoff that cut off availability of some of the publisher's books by the online retailer and stirred up ugly PR for Amazon.The deal will take... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Man Booker-shortlisted Ali Smith, Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Eimear McBride, and Costa Book of the Year winner Nathan Filer are among the authors vying at the Specsavers National Book Awards this year. Presented in association with high street campaign Books Are My Bag, the awards... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A memorial for Jane Queller, former Barnes & Noble national accounts manager for Consortium, who passed away on October 12, will take place on Sunday, December 21 at 11 a.m at JCC of Manhattan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jon Rippon is leaving Constable & Robinson (C&R) to set up a back-office support business for publishers. Rippon, C&R's group finance director, is the final board-level manager to leave C&R following its sale to Little, Brown Book Group earlier this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alvina Ling, executive editorial director, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Cheryl Willis Hudson, v-p and editorial director, Just Us Books; and Jason Low, publisher, Lea & Low Books will be the featured speakers at PW's panel discussion on industry diversity set for October 16. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the Frankfurt Book Fair's CEO Talk, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray spoke about the company's acquisition of Harlequin and its expansion into Germany. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Looking to take advantage of the growing interest in French dual-language programs (DLP), the first Bilingual Education Fair of New York is set to be held this weekend at New York City’s Hunter College. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Clay Shirky and Bethany McLean are among the first authors signed up for the inaugural Columbia Global Reports list, which debuts in fall 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PW will hold a panel discussion October 16 to examine the question of diversity in the publishing industry workforce and the impact it has on the types of books that are published. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Multinational publishers know that regional book editions increase their options for selling titles, especially in the education segment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Craig Hawes describes how his book of short stories set in Dubai was pulled from bookstores in the UAE and reflects on the state of censorship in the country. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Software companies, once on the periphery of Christian book publishing, find themselves increasingly taking center stage. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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