Two debut novels are battling it out on the shortlist for the $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, including one soon to be published by Oneworld. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Capturing one of the richest purses for young writers, Australian Fiona McFarlane wins the Dylan Thomas for work called 'stunning' and 'unforgettable.' The post Australian Fiona McFarlane’s ‘The High Places’ Wins Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsury has signed a "major" work of non-fiction entitled The Growth Delusion by David Pilling. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Francis Spufford has won the Royal Society of Literature’s £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for his debut novel Golden Hill (Faber). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Perry crowns a much-garlanded year for her gothic romp, honoured alongside authors including Kiran Millwood Hargrave and JK RowlingTwo word-of-mouth bookselling success stories – Sarah Perry’s novel The Essex Serpent and Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s young adult book The Girl of Ink and Stars... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan and Waterstones are two of the biggest winners at this year's British Book Awards, aka The Nibbies, after being crowned Publisher of the Year and Book Retailer of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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JK Rowling says she's 'thrilled' to pick up an outstanding contribution award to add to her collection of literary accolades. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gary Younge and Dawn Foster have been shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chicken House editor Rachel Leyson has two nods on the shortlist for the Branford Boase award, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winning The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pushkin Press imprint ONE has acquired Paul Howarth’s debut novel Only Killers & Thieves. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The London Evening Standard has claimed that Penguin Random House UK is “eyeing plush new offices in Nine Elms” in the Southbank regeneration area in London SW8. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus' new upmarket imprint riverrun has acquired a debut crime fiction novel Too Close to Breathe, plus one other, by Irish author Olivia Kiernan in a six-figure pre-empt. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's offer to remove its controversial "Most Favoured Nation" (MFN) clauses from its ebook contracts has been accepted and made legally binding by the European Commission. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning The Underground Railroad (Fleet) has found itself a place on the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Romeo Oriogun from Nigeria has won 2017's £3,000 Brunel International African Poetry Prize for his "complex and ultimately beautiful" writing on masculinity, sexuality and desire in the face of LGBT criminalisation and persecution. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has bought the début book from Gill Sims, the voice behind the hit Facebook blog "Peter and Jane". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Champion jockey Declan Murphy wasn’t expected to survive a horrific riding accident in 1994 - let alone live to tell the tale, in conjunction with writer Ami Rao. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On each page of A Universe Explodes by Tea Uglow, owners are required to add one word and remove two – which amounts to an odd reading experienceIt opens with a woman reaching up for a cereal bowl and closes with a new beginning – or at least it does for the moment. By the time you get to read... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent bookshops have been praised by authors as “oases of intellectual and physical comfort” as the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award nominees have been released. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Masterful characterisation” and “subtle visual subplots” have won Isobel Evans, a third-year illustration student at the University of Hertfordshire, the Hachette Children’s Group Carmelite Picture Book Prize 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After the Scandi noir boom, dark tales from British authors are making waves abroad. Publishers, agents and authors take up the caseWhen ex-paramedic Daniel Cole signed with agent Sue Armstrong, he was “delighted”. When Armstrong bagged him a six-figure, three-book deal from a British publisher... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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