Tina Brown’s royal revelations spare no one, especially Meghan Markle

Much like the royal family itself, "The Palace Papers" gets more interesting when Meghan Markle comes along. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

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Two more Gilly Macmillan to Little, Brown

Little, Brown has acquired two new books by "rising star" thriller author Gilly Macmillan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ipso delighted by publishers' revelations of their annual statements

Landmark moment as newspapers and magazines disclose how they deal with editorial standards and their relationship with the press regulatorIn something of a landmark move, newspaper and magazine publishing groups regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) have published... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Herdman joins Hodder from Curtis Brown

Hodder & Stoughton is strengthening its fiction department by appointing Curtis Brown's Emma Herdman and promoting two people. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Where are the brown people?': authors slam lack of diversity in UK publishing

Nikesh Shukla calls industry’s backtracking ‘a perfect loop-de-loop of blame’ as he is joined by Jon McGregor in a groundswell of readers and authors demanding more diverse representationMan Booker winner Marlon James: ‘Writers of colour pander to the white woman’Authors Nikesh Shukla and Jon... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A female author's revelation: When the men stopped mattering

There are few things more revealing than a fervent hobby. If you expose someone's passionate pastime, you somehow learn more about him than the activity alone should reveal. Think Vladimir Nabokov's butterflies, or George W. Bush's portraits. As for me, I've practiced only one activity with... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Revel Barker's memoir captures the madness of the old Mirror

Book recounts Fleet Street’s days of unlimited expenses amid an alcoholic hazeFleet Street memoirs are often difficult to read without wincing. Too many veteran reporters, and former editors for that matter, tend to think their reminiscences of “amusing” times past are both entertaining and also... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown wins rights to Ensaf Haidar's memoir

Little, Brown has signed a book by Ensaf Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi. Richard Beswick won world English language rights, excluding America, in an auction to Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story from Barbara Zitwer at the Barbara J Zitwer... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks Bestsellers: Brown Takes #2

Sandra Brown's 'Friction' debuted at #2 on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list for the week ended August 24. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Speed appointed as 'book to film' agent at Curtis Brown

Curtis Brown has appointed Luke Speed as a book to film agent in its book department. Speed previously spent 15 years at Marjacq running its book to film department. Curtis Brown joint c.e.o. Jonny Geller said: “We have long admired Luke's work as book to film agent at Marjacq and are... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One Year After Michael Brown’s Death: 5 Books on Faith, Race, and Reconciliation

PW lists five books that examine racial reconciliation in the U.S. amidst the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, a personal revelation

Like many Facebook users, Mark Zuckerberg turned to the social network to announce that he and his wife were expecting a baby. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tina Weiner

In 2009, when Stanford University decided to close its publishing course, a group of its faculty approached Tina Weiner, then publishing director at Yale University Press, to see if she might have any interest in moving the program to New Haven, Conn. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Girl on the Train breaks Brown’s Original Fiction record

Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) passed the 800,000 unit mark across all formats in the UK and Ireland last week as it became the first book since Nielsen BookScan records began to earn 20 Original Fiction number ones. Hawkins’ run of 20 non-consecutive numbers ones broke the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hawkins’ 'Train' runs over Brown’s record

Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) has become the title with the longest run as an Original Fiction number one since records began. Last week, Hawkins’ book spent its 20th non-consecutive week atop Original Fiction, eclipsing the previous record of 19 weeks set by Dan Brown’s The... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picture book from rapper 'Doc Brown'

The Walker Books Group will next year publish a picture book by rapper and actor Ben Bailey Smith across the Walker Entertainment and Candlewick Entertainment imprints.   Smith, who raps under the name Doc Brown, has penned I Am Bear, a rap-style read-aloud story about a mischievous bear. The... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barbeque book to Little, Brown

Little, Brown has acquired a new cookery title form the founders of barbecue brand, Grillstock. Publishing director signed World rights in Grillstock: The Bar-B-Q Book by Jon Finch and Ben Merrington from Clive Wilson at Harris and Wilson. The book will feature 100 recipes inspired by Deep... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2015: HC's New Margaret Wise Brown Venture

A forthcoming line of picture books from HarperCollins Children's Books invites a new generation of children and their parents to "Explore the World of Margaret Wise Brown" via new editions of some of the late author's stories. The program debuts in 2016 with the publication of two newly... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Obituary: Marcia Brown

Author-illustrator Marcia Brown, the much-lauded recipient of three Caldecott Medals and six Caldecott Honors, among other accolades, died on April 28. She was 96. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion acquires two by Kate Lord Brown

Orion has signed two books by Kate Lord Brown, who has previously been published by Atlantic’s Corvus imprint. Kate Mills, Orion publishing director, acquired the novels from Sheila Crowley at Curtis Brown, for a “good five-figure sum”. The first novel, The Christmas We Met, will be published... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown acquires new Keren David

Little, Brown Book Group has acquired a new novel by YA Book Prize-shortlisted author Keren David. Cuckoo, which will be published under the Atom imprint, is about a washed-up child star who needs a new home and a new direction, and finds them in unlikely places and through the most improbable... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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