The Handmaid's Tale triumphs at The Emmys

TV series "The Handmaid's Tale", based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel of the same name, has scooped five gongs at this year's Emmy Awards, including for best drama series. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dalcher triumphs over competition to win Goldsboro Glass Bell Award

Christina Dalcher has won the £2,000 Goldsboro Glass Bell Award with her dystopian debut novel VOX (HQ).  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 12:41:53 UTC ]
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Lorna Cook triumphs with debut novel to win Joan Hessayon Award

Essex author Lorna Cook has won the Romantic Novelists' Association's (RNA) prestigious Joan Hessayon Award for new writers with her debut novel The Forgotten Village (Avon).  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-16 02:19:21 UTC ]
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Smoking with Elvis: A Tale of the Mangled Generation

A FREELANCE WRITER based in Sarajevo, Faruk Šehić produces journalism and opinion pieces for the weekly magazine BH Dani [Bosnia-Herzegovina Days]. Under Pressure, his first book-length work of fiction, was originally published in 2004 as Pod pritiskom by the now-defunct publishing house Naklada... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-09-15 17:00:05 UTC ]
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Jessica Love wins Klaus Flugge Prize with 'barrier-breaking' tale

Jessica Love has won this year's Klaus Flugge Prize for the most promising newcomer to children's picture books with her "barrier-breaking" and "heartwarming" tale, Julian is a Mermaid (Walker Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-10 21:01:48 UTC ]
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In ‘The Reckless Oath We Made,’ an unlikely fairy tale unfolds in Kansas

Bryn Greenwood’s novel follows a drug dealer and a man who believes he’s a knight. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-03 16:27:54 UTC ]
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Maxine Peake brings warmth and likeability to raw, bitter pain in a candid tale of IVF failure

Avalanche: A Love Story, is a play based on the author's memoir detailing the anguish of her six unsuccessful attempts at IVF. It depicts doctors who prey upon an ageing woman’s despair and the stigma attached to 'failed' mothers. Continue reading at The Conversation

[ The Conversation | 2019-09-03 02:31:44 UTC ]
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Immigrant tales to read and embrace

These immigration stories explore our shared history — a reading list for all ages Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-30 17:32:27 UTC ]
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Why are women so captivated by tales of murder?

Rachel Monroe urges us to think more critically about the true-crime genre’s appeal. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-23 12:29:55 UTC ]
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PRH Children’s acquires Vincent’s Fairy Tales for Millennials

Penguin Random House UK Children’s has bought world rights to 12 fairy tale retellings by Bruno Vincent, author of the Enid Blyton for Grown-ups series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-05 19:08:41 UTC ]
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HQ snaps up 'modern-day Cinderella tale' from Sophia Money-Coutts

HarperCollins will publish two new titles by journalist and author Sophia Money-Coutts. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-30 08:09:25 UTC ]
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Mantle triumphs in five-way battle for Carter love story

Pan Mac imprint Mantle has triumphed in a five-way battle for a "true heartbreaker of a love story" from Eva Carter in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 08:37:44 UTC ]
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Serpent's Tail scoops Mary Gaitskill's #MeToo New Yorker tale

Serpent’s Tail has acquired a novella, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill, about the “unravelling of the life of a male publisher undone by allegations of sexual impropriety and harassment” which was first published in the New Yorker earlier this month. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-25 18:04:04 UTC ]
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Why Are So Many Women Rewriting Fairy Tales?

Peg Alford Pursell’s second book, A Girl Goes Into the Forest, contains a collection of 67 short stories exploring moments in the lives of women. Pursell’s first book, Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow, was recognized as a 2017 Indies finalist and a finalist and honorable mention in fiction... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2019-07-25 11:00:57 UTC ]
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Viking triumphs in nine-way auction for youth worker's debut

Viking has won a nine-way auction to publish Brixton-based youth worker Ciaran Thapar’s non-fiction debut, billed as "the first book to explore the youth violence epidemic". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-21 12:18:01 UTC ]
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Bonnier triumphs in six-way auction for Magid Magid's debut

The former Lord Mayor of Sheffield Magid Magid’s first book, a personal “manifesto for change”, will be published by Bonnier Books UK following a six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-18 02:14:46 UTC ]
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For advertisers, the Emmy halo effect is a thing of the past

Advertisers looking to shill for their products and services within the context of an Emmy Award-winning series are once again more or less out of luck, as premium cable and streaming platforms gobbled up most of this morning’s nominations. Of the dozens of scripted, reality and variety series... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-16 19:19:03 UTC ]
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Hood triumphs at UKLA awards for second year in row

Morag Hood has triumphed at the UKLA Book Awards for the second year in a row, with I am Bat (Two Hoots). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-12 17:58:46 UTC ]
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Johnson triumphs at Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction

Catherine Johnson fought off competition from Sarah MacIntyre and debut artist Emily Haworth-Boot to win the 2019 Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 17:38:27 UTC ]
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Jai triumphs over 200 entries to win Borough and Good Literary Agency prize

Sophie Jai's debut novel Wild Fires was selected out of 200 entries to win The Borough Press and The Good Literary Agency open submission. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 18:07:57 UTC ]
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Essex libraries saved after council U-turn in triumph for campaigners

Essex County Council has announced it is ditching plans to close its libraries and their future is secure for the next five years following a huge community campaign, supported by authors including David Walliams and Jacqueline Wilson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 00:31:48 UTC ]
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