Congratulations to Tess Gunty, whose critically acclaimed debut novel The Rabbit Hutch has just won the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize. The novel (about four teenagers—recently aged out of the state foster-care system—living together in an apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest), was selected as winner by a panel of Waterstones booksellers from a shortlist […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-08-26 15:48:11 UTC ]
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Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2018 for her "refusal to be deterred or detained by the categories of others". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jean-Claude Arnault, the French photographer at the centre of the sexual assault allegations which have led to the postponement of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has been charged with rape. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant users in the United States and Canada will be able to download a free “Stephen King Library” onto their smart speaker platforms beginning today. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The husband-wife team of Aleida and Jan Assmann, both authors and researchers, are known for their work in "cultural memory" and its contrast in many instances to individual experience and recollection in society. The post Aleida and Jan Assmann To Receive the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tim Waterstone, founder of the eponymous bookshop chain Waterstones, has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with a knighthood for "services to bookselling and charity". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unit sales of print books fell 2% in the week ended June 3, 2018, compared to the similar week in 2017, at outlets that report to NDP BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An American debut author has secured a £1.5m advance for her "sensational" historical novel, with Hutchinson winning the UK rights after a 12-publisher auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Check, Please!, Ngozi Ukazu's popular LGBTQ hockey and pie-baking webcomic and graphic novel series, will kick off its fourth and final year online on June 11. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A debut novel about the 1957 publication of 'Dr. Zhivago,' called 'We Were Never Here,' has been acquired by Knopf's Jordan Pavlin after a 14-bidder auction. Pavlin called the buzzed-about title, by a recent grad of the MFA program at the University of Texas at Austin, a "literary page-turner." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Want to be in with a shot at winning the Women's Prize? Kiera O'Brien crunches the numbers to tell you how. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Professor Peter Marshall of Warwick University has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize 2018 for Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale University Press)—a book seven years in the making, based on more than two decades of research. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling author Marian Keyes has reportedly accused the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize of sexism after failing to make the shortlist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador has pre-empted a “funny, urban, literary” debut from a Curtis Brown student. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of last year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for young authors has made deals well over six figures across five countries for a book about technology innovation, with William Collins scooping the book in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Mustafa’s Jumper' by Coral Rumble has won this year’s The Caterpillar Poetry Prize, given every year for an unpublished poem written by an adult for children. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's digital comics marketplace Comixology is releasing three new series in digital and POD print editions, and plans to announce an even larger list of graphic novels during San Diego Comic-Con in July. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is to create a pop up bookshop on the Scottish island of Benbecula, which has just 1,300 residents. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With 'The Boneless Mercies' (FSG, Oct.), a reimagining of the Beowulf legend in which four mercenary girls set out to defeat a marauding monster, Tucholke is making her first foray into fantasy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Declines in both adult and juvenile fiction offset gains in nonfiction, resulting in a 1% decline in print unit sales in the week ended May 27, 2018, compared to the similar week in 2017 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomberg published an eyebrow-raising report Thursday night about a draft proposal being prepared by the Trump administration that would subsidize the coal industry in part by invoking a Cold War-era law intended for use in national security emergencies: Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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