Having a separate award was good for female novelists. Now a medical author is blazing a trail with a true storyFemale nonfiction writers are paid less on average, receive fewer reviews and win fewer prizes than men. Unsurprisingly, this means that women sell fewer books. So far this year, more than 60% of titles on the UK’s hardback and paperback nonfiction bestseller lists have been by men.Kate Mosse wants to change this. Famously, she set up the Women’s prize for fiction after there was not a single woman on the 1991 Booker shortlist. This year Ms Mosse’s award celebrates its 30th anniversary. With previous winners including Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Maggie O’Farrell, it has changed the publishing landscape to the extent that some suggest it is now redundant: last year, five out of the six books on the Booker prize shortlist were by women, and the winner was Samantha Harvey. Indeed, such is the pre-eminence of female novelists that there is talk of a crisis in men’s fiction, and plans for an independent publisher, Conduit Books, especially for male authors. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2025-06-15 16:25:21 UTC ]
This week, the book-reading internet was apparently in a mild uproar over six redesigns of Jane Austen novels, which will be published—with new introductions from popular contemporary YA romance novelists like Ali Hazelwood and Tessa Bailey—by Puffin, Penguin UK’s children’s imprint, in March.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Generations of middle graders have learned about bodily functions from author Sylvia Branzei and illustrator Jack Keely’s 1995 'Grossology: The Science of Really Gross Things!' and its multimedia spinoffs. Now Grosset & Dunlap has released a redesigned, commemorative hardcover edition, plus... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Every week, I look at the biggest bestseller lists and note the overlap to see the bestselling books of the ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a space station above Earth. Continue reading at The New York Times
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It’s difficult, perhaps, not to feel that this past month has felt longer than a typical January, its natural disasters, sudden shifts, and political upheavals making this month seem as though a whole year or more had already rushed by. As February approaches, there is an inevitable sense of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Citing public funding difficulties and marketplace challenges, the British Columbia independent publisher is winding down operations at its Vancouver office. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The indie publisher hopes to get ‘The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation,’ which was released as a federal report on January 17, into bookstores by mid February. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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I purposely avoided reading the works of other Palestinian American novelists making their ways into the world as I wrote Too Soon. When I looked up, I saw my book would be a part of a literary wave I had no idea I was riding, an artistic movement, that felt particular to the Palestinian... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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'Beg, Borrow, or Steal,' Sarah Adams's her third contemporary rom-com set in Rome, Ky., debuts at #3 on our trade paperback list. Plus January's Read with Jenna selection debuts at #12 on our hardcover fiction list and Amanda Gorman and Loveis Wise celebrate 'Girls on the Rise.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The new year has begun in earnest, but because the bestseller lists report on figures from two weeks ago, they’re ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fieldsKate Mosse and Richard Osman have hit back at Labour’s plan to give artificial intelligence companies broad freedoms to mine artistic works for data, saying it could destroy growth in creative... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2025-01-14 17:52:02 UTC ]
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The owners of the independent publisher Ulysses Press and the creative content studio Spot Gloss Media have banded together to create Bluestone Books. The new company will release its first titles this summer and plans to do 25-30 books annually. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
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This week’s bestseller lists are reporting on sales from the end of December, a time when very few books are ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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