Tartt, Lahiri, Adichie on Baileys Women's shortlist

Debut novelists Eimear McBride, Audrey Magee and Hannah Kent join Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Donna... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pratt and Green on Branford Boase shortlist

Books by YA Prize-shortlisted authors Non Pratt and Sally Green are on the seven-strong shortlist for this year’s Branford Boase award. The award is given jointly to the author and editor of the most outstanding debut novel for children, and Pratt is shortlisted for Trouble, published by... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women's lifestyle site rides native-ad trend to the bank

During the past year, native advertising has gone from being the girl traditional publishers wanted to date but worried would hurt their reputation, to the trophy wife whom they always want by their... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Granta's Rausing makes Ondaatje shortlist

Granta owner Sigrid Rausing has been shortlisted for the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize for her book Everything is Wonderful (Grove Press), alongside authors including Helen Dunmore and Elif Shafak. The annual award of £10,000 is given for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Keane leads British Sports Book awards shortlists

Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle's memoir The Second Half leads the nominations for the Cross British Sports Book Awards shortlists, as it competes for three separate prizes. The book, published by Orion, is in the running for autobiography of the year, football book of the year and the outstanding... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gruff Rhys on book award shortlist

Super Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys is nominated for the Wales Book of the Year award. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mukherjee, Lane, Hunt on Encore shortlist

Man Booker shortlistee Neel Mukherjee is among the six authors shortlisted for the £10,000 Encore Award for a second novel. Mukherjee is shortlisted for The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus), which was also on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Débuts strong on Orwell shortlist

Two début authors have made the shortlists for this year’s Orwell Prize for political writing. Dan Davies has made the £3,000 Book Prize shortlist for his book about Jimmy Savile, In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile (Quercus). The other first-time writer on the list is Louisa Lim,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Loose Women select next book club titles

Karen Joy Fowler's We are All Completely Besides Ourselves and David Nicholls' Us are the next two books to be selected for the ITV Loose Women Book Club. The recently-launched book club called Loose Books, sees a different Loose Women panellist pick a book to read each month, which will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four for Harper on Hessayon shortlist

HarperImpulse has four novels on the shortlist for The Romantic Novelists' Association’s Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. The publisher’s four titles on the shortlist are: Brigid Coady’s No one Wants to be Miss Havisham; What If He's The One by Kathy Jay; Nikki Moore’s Crazy Undercover... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anderson and Nadel pen self-help guide for women

Actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel are writing a “revolutionary self-help guide for women”. WE is described as an “urgent and timely book for women, which offers a dramatically new path to fulfilment”. HarperNonFiction publisher Natalie Jerome and editorial director Carolyn... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women Buy Books, Men Review Them

VIDA's annual survey of literary publications found that book reviewing and literary coverage is still dominated by men. The post Women Buy Books, Men Review Them appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foreign book prize reveals shortlist

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami makes the shortlist for 2015's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, alongside newly-translated authors from Equatorial Guinea and Colombia. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Murakami shortlisted for Indie Foreign Fiction Prize

Authors Haruki Murakami, Erwin Mortier and Daniel Kehlmann have made the shortlist for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Also shortlisted for the £10,000 award are two writers whose work has been translated from Spanish into English for the first time: Tomás González and Juan Tomás... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Leckie on Hugo Awards shortlist

Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Sword (Orbit), the sequel to her multi award-winning Ancillary Justice (also Orbit), is among the finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards. The annual awards honour the best science fiction and fantasy works and achievements of the previous year across a number of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three debut novels on Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize shortlist

Three debut novelists are in the running for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic novels. Writer Caitlin Moran, actress Helen Lederer and Nina Stibbe have all made the shortlist for the prize, alongside Alexander McCall Smith, Irvine Welsh and Joseph O'Neill. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Breakout Hit Outlander Is Finally Attracting Women to Starz

Game of Thrones isn't the only highly anticipated returning premium cable program based on a hugely popular book series with a rabid fan base. Starz has its own budding hit in Outlander, based on Diana Gabaldon's historical/fantasy/romance novels, which will launch the second half of its debut... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Uglow and Bostridge on PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize shortlist

Jenny Uglow and Mark Bostridge are among the five authors shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2015. The £2,000 prize, funded from former PEN member Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman’s bequest to English PEN, celebrates the best non-fiction on a historical subject from any period up... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Loose Women to launch TV Book Club

ITV daytime chat show Loose Women is today (March 24th) launching a new book club, with Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) picked as the first title. The book club, called Loose Books, will see a different Loose Women panellist pick a book to read each month, which will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shortlist revealed for Bloomsbury/NLT prize

Bloomsbury and the National Literacy Trust have shortlisted six writers for a competition to find unpublished children’s authors. Bloomsbury received 400 entries to this year’s New Children’s Author Prize, launched last year, which asks aspiring authors to pay £30 to enter in order to raise... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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