W&N scoops Taylor's narrative history of Nile in five-way auction

Weidenfeld & Nicolson has snapped up Liquid History by historian Dr Vanessa Taylor in a "significant five-figure" deal following a five-way UK auction, with bidding in the US still underway. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 13:28:56 UTC ]
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Del Rey scoops Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan's new thriller

Del Rey UK is to publish a paranormal thriller by film director Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-30 10:22:05 UTC ]
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'Global theme' for Wolfson History Prize shortlist

The shortlist for the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced, and this year five out of the six books chosen focus on international subjects. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-29 17:00:04 UTC ]
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10 of the Best Narrative Poems in English Literature

When we think of poems, these days most people probably automatically think of lyric poems: usually quite short poems which describe the poet’s (or an imagined speaker’s) thoughts and feelings. But from the epic poems of Homer to the Border Ballads of the Middle Ages to notable contemporary... Continue reading at Interesting Literature

[ Interesting Literature | 2020-04-29 14:00:40 UTC ]
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HQ scoops Erskine's 'inspirational' sustainable food cookbook

HQ has scooped an “inspirational” sustainable food cookbook from TV chef and writer Gizzi Erskine. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 06:22:27 UTC ]
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Picador scoops Great Flu novel by Donoghue

Picador has scooped the “intoxicating” new novel from Room writer Emma Donoghue, telling the story of nurses and doctors working on the medical front line of 1918's great flu epidemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-27 04:39:36 UTC ]
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W&N wins Razak debut in three-way auction

Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired Moth by debut author Melody Razak, a "dark and sweeping" story of pre-partition India, in a three-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-26 13:47:24 UTC ]
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Pushkin Children's wins four-publisher auction for Johnson debut

Pushkin Children’s Books has triumphed in a four-publisher auction for two novels in a series from debut author Daisy May Johnson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-24 03:45:59 UTC ]
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CUP scoops coronavirus book from 'outbreak sleuth' Paul Rabadan

Cambridge University Press has signed a book on the coronavirus by “outbreak sleuth” Professor Raul Rabadan, who helped solve the mystery of the swine flu pandemic in 2009. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 18:03:58 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph scoops So Vegan one pot cookbook

Michael Joseph has scooped a one-pot recipe book from Roxy Pope and Ben Pook of popular online platform So Vegan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-17 09:15:54 UTC ]
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Curtis Sittenfeld Rewrites History

In her latest novel, 'Rodham,' one of America's finest fiction writers goes inside the mind of a Clinton. (Yes, that Clinton.) Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Taylor & Francis owner Informa issues shares as coronavirus hits business

Taylor & Francis owner Informa has launched an issue of shares worth 19.9% of its existing capital as the coronavirus pandemic hits its events business. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-15 15:21:35 UTC ]
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Diane Keaton and Ronan Farrow show the challenges of narrating your own audiobook

Some writers make their books sing. Others, not so much. Here are titles to savor — and to avoid. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-14 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Alternate Histories and Silenced Women: Sue Monk Kidd on Her New Novel The Book of Longing

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[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-09 17:30:46 UTC ]
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The Enduring Relevance and Wisdom of Mildred D. Taylor’s Circle Unbroken, by Dianne Johnson-Feelings

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[ World Literature Today | 2020-04-09 13:31:33 UTC ]
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Looking at the History of Viruses and Public Opinion

In 1999, David Papineau wrote for the Book Review about “Flu,” Gina Kolata’s book about the 1918 influenza pandemic and the hunt for the virus that caused it. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-04-09 09:00:05 UTC ]
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Paul Taylor Elected a Director of Hearst

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[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-04-07 21:14:35 UTC ]
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C Pam Zhang’s ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ brilliantly reimagines the cowboy narrative

At once subversive and searching, the debut novel focuses on two sisters on the run whose roots lie in an unnamed country “from beyond the ocean.” Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-06 20:54:23 UTC ]
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Hodder wins Spanish bestseller about birth of books in seven-way auction

Hodder & Stoughton has won a seven-way auction to acquire rights to Infinity in a Reed, an account of the invention of books in the ancient world by classicist Irene Vallejo. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-06 12:33:34 UTC ]
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Ant & Dec mark 30th anniversary with book for Sphere following 12-way auction

Ant & Dec, aka Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, are publishing a book with Sphere this September—Once Upon a Tyne: Celebrating 30 Years Together on Telly–following a 12-way auction in January. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-01 12:30:50 UTC ]
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