Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 10/02/2011 - 08:01 Viking has acquired world rights to a modern art title by BBC arts editor Will Gompertz. Editor Ben Brusey bought What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising Story of Modern Art directly from the author, with Viking to publish in spring 2012. Brusey said: "Will Gompertz is the perfect tour guide for Modern Art. With wonderful humour and down-to-earth storytelling, he brings to life a subject that can often seem intimidating, and asks all of the questions, big and small, that many of us will have asked and been puzzled by." read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Marketing and publicity teams need to make sure their middle-tier titles don't get lost in the crowded autumn, Canongate commercial director Jenny Fry has warned. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Profile Books will publish Shaun Bythell's Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops in November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Viking has pre-empted a “remarkable” memoir by lawyer Qian Julie Wang about her childhood spent in severe poverty as an undocumented Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Creative Industries Federation and Creative England has welcomed the government's new £1.57bn fund to help the arts as "the game changer we need". Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Paul Baggaley has acquired an "extraordinarily prescient" debut novel by Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ulverscroft has acquired the large print, audio and download rights to Captain Tom Moore’s autobiography, Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Yellow Kite will publish The Book of Yoga Self-Practice by Rebecca Anderton-Davies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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HQ has acquired a memoir by the co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party Catherine Mayer and her mother Anne Mayer Bird, written after they were both widowed within weeks of each other just before the Covid-19 lockdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Faber is to publish Access all Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond by Lenny Henry and Marus Ryder next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A stalwart quiz book from 2008 was the bestselling Northern-issued title last year, beating off some prize-fighting fiction books Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Booksellers are now the “gatekeepers” and attempts to get titles by people of colour into their stores are often an “exercise in futility”, Jacaranda Books founder Valerie Brandes has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hachette Children's Group will publish Ghostcloud, a middle-grade adventure by debut author Michael Mann. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Magazine publisher Bauer is closing a number of titles as part of a review to “protect the long-term health” the Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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OverDrive—the digital learning platform for libraries and schools—has announced it is acquiring RBmedia's library business. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Combining OverDrive's market-leading platform with RBmedia's exclusive content represents a major new wrinkle in the digital library market: RBmedia is a major producer of audiobooks with a catalog of more than 45,000 exclusive titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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September Publishing is to release the "first comprehensive guide" to London's Afro-Caribbean history. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Anthony McGowan and Shaun Tan this week won the CILIP Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal respectively for their books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Faber is to publish a collection of short stories by John Lanchester this autumn. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin UK, will publish Caste: The Lies that Divide Us, an exploration of social history by Isabel Wilkerson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Mental health and wellbeing publisher Trigger Publishing has acquired its first book on pregnancy from consultant midwife Sian Warriner and children’s mindfulness author Mark Pallis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-16 13:40:22 UTC ]
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