Sure ‘Dracula’ is great, but don’t overlook Florence Marryat’s ‘The Blood of the Vampire’

This 1897 horror classic is plenty scary; it also grapples with race and gender issues. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-29 16:00:00 UTC ]
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Books: Theodore Sturgeon's overlooked centenary plus reviews and book news

Hello I’m books editor Carolyn Kellogg with our Books newsletter this week. THE BIG STORY This year is Theodore Sturgeon’s centenary, and if you’re wondering “who?,” you’re not alone. Once widely read (and still beloved in some science fiction communities, as a few on Twitter pointed out to me)... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Abrams Acquires Peter Mayer's the Overlook Press

The Overlook Press, cofounded by Peter Mayer, the former chair and CEO of the Penguin Group, in 1971, has been acquired by illustrated book publisher Abrams. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Jones & Marina Amaral | 'It’s a great way to engage people who wouldn’t normally be interested in history'

A reappraisal of world history since 1850 is brought to life through the use of vividly colourised images. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dracula revived by Stoker descendant

A direct descendent of the author of Dracula has written a prequel to Bram Stoker's classic vampire gothic, drawing on the original journals, notes and scripts of its creator. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH Children's commits to finding 'overlooked voices' at summer party

Francesca Dow stressed the importance of finding stories from “voices that are overlooked” at last night’s Penguin Random House Children’s summer party. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze and eharmony seek to find 'next great love story'

Trapeze Books is partnering with dating website eharmony to launch a creative writing competition seeking to "find the next great love story". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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George R R Martin to release Fire and Blood this November

George R R Martin is to release a new book in November – Fire and Blood – set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World Book Day: Five great TV adaptations

From The Forsyth Saga to Game of Thrones, The Man in the High Tower and The Handmaid's Tale, books have provided the inspiration for some of television's most memorable shows. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PBS Unveils The Great American Read's 100 Most Loved Books

PBS kicked off 'The Great American Read,' its forthcoming eight-episode documentary on reading in American Culture, by revealing the show’s list of America’s 100 best loved books in front of a lively crowd at the Morgan Library in Midtown Manhattan Friday morning. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gender pay gap figures reveal big publishing's great divide

The UK’s biggest publishers release figures showing average differences in pay between men and women ranging from 11.3% to 29.69%The books industry may be dominated by women, but men are reaping the rewards, as the UK’s largest publishers reveal a “stark” divide in pay. Figures reported to the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virginia Woolf's great-niece Emma to publish debut novel

The great-niece of Virginia Woolf is to publish her debut novel in July with Three Hares Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: new blood but Eleanor Oliphant remains completely fine

After a dearth of new entries in the Weekly E-Book Ranking a week ago—the first time on record that no new titles hit the chart—the latest ranking more than makes up for it. In total, 11 shiny new titles entered the top 20. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4 great audiobook selections for Black History Month

In honor of Black History Month we chose four African American authors worth hearing any time of the year.   Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Harkness vampire novel to Headline

Headline is publishing a "passionate" vampire love story: Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness, the author of the All Souls trilogy.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sally Magnusson | 'I fell into this because I had a great story at my fingertips'

TV presenter and non-fiction author Sally Magnusson draws upon her father’s love of Icelandic sagas in her first novel, which intertwines real-life events with fictional imaginings. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PBS Reveals Authors, Stars On ‘The Great American Read’

The Great American Read, a PBS-produced documentary series on reading in American culture that will debut in the spring, announced the authors, media celebrities and literary experts that are taking part in the program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fig Tree scoops Florence Welch's debut

Singer-songwriter Florence Welch has signed her first book - an illustrated collection of lyrics and poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Great Auk' Wins TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

'The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk,' a nonfiction picture book written and illustrated by Jan Thornhill, has won the 2017 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Flesh and Blood' has a raw, sometimes painful, honesty

Actor-filmmaker Mark Webber mines personal experience for “Flesh and Blood,” a quasi-memoir that hearkens back to the raw, adventurous American cinema of the ’60s and ’70s. The movie bleeds honesty, though its individual components are more memorable than how they’re assembled. Webber plays the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Great Schott! New Jeeves title to Hutchinson

Ben Schott, creator of Schott’s Original Miscellany, is switching to fiction to write a new title in P G Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster series for Hutchinson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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