Walker marks SLA's 40th birthday with membership gift

Walker is to fund 40 memberships for schools wishing to join the School Library Association, as part of celebrations for the SLA's 40th anniversary. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-29 17:43:46 UTC ]
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TV presenter Helen Skelton signs with Walker

Walker Books will this September publish a non-fiction book by TV presenter Helen Skelton. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jack Dorsey Says Mark Zuckerberg Once Killed a Goat and Served It to Him for Dinner

An interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey published by Rolling Stone on Wednesday took a darkly comic turn when he was asked about his most memorable interaction with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Curtis Brown celebrates 120th birthday with novel-writing prize

Curtis Brown is to celebrate its 120th birthday with a series of events spearheaded by a team of young agents, culminating in the Curtis Brown 120 Novel Writing Prize.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walker Books Group announces new Kate DiCamillo novel

Walker Books Group will publish a new novel by Kate DiCamillo in the UK, the US and Australia. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribe donates 1,000 of Fried's book to mark Holocaust

Scribe is donating 1,000 copies of the new title Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust by Hédi Fried to UK schools and libraries in honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Resign from Facebook': experts offer Mark Zuckerberg advice for 2019

The CEO sets himself a personal challenge every new year. But after a bruising 12 months, what should he do next? When Mark Zuckerberg began his annual “personal challenges” in 2009, he set the bar pretty low: he dressed like an adult every day for a year. Subsequent challenges were squarely in... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon UK brings in ebook gifting

Amazon.co.uk has brought in a 'Buy for others' option on the detail page for Kindle books to allow people to gift ebooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Final Volume of a Successful 'Struggle' Marks 15 Years for Archipelago

The publisher of literature in translation released the final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's 'My Struggle' this year. But it's not done with him yet. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Heather Marks wins 2018 Quarto Translations Award

Writer Heather Marks has won this year’s Quarto Translations Diversity Award, run by the Golden Egg Academy, for her story set in both the 18th century and contemporary Bristol. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Alice Walker under fire for endorsing book by 'anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist'

"The Color Purple" author Alice Walker last week endorsed a book by a British conspiracy theorist frequently accused of anti-Semitism, and literary observers are speaking out on social media. Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet and activist, was interviewed for the New York Times... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two-book deal marks new beginnings for Erin Green with Headline

Headline has acquired two new novels by women's fiction writer Erin Green, the first of which centres on three strangers on holiday.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alice Walker under fire for praise of 'antisemitic' David Icke book

The New York Times also faced criticism for publishing the Color Purple author’s recommendation without qualificationThe New York Times Book Review and Alice Walker have come under criticism for comments the celebrated writer made in an interview with the publication in which she recommended a... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: The Tattooist leaves its mark

Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz is proving indelible in both the Mass-Market Fiction chart number one—it racked up its 10th consecutive pole last week—and the Weekly E-Book Ranking top spot, which it grabbed for a sixth time. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three new Mark Billingham novels to Sphere

Sphere has acquired three new novels from Mark Billingham for Little, Brown, the first of which will be a new Tom Thorne novel and the crime writer's 20th novel to date, publishing in 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook defends Mark Zuckerberg's exposed emails

The social network publishes a detailed rebuttal of some of the claims made against it. Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 books Bill Gates says to read–and gift!–over the holidays

The 2018 holiday reading list from the philanthropist is here, covering everything from killer robots to meditation. If you want to make sense of the world, you need to learn more about it. That’s the prevailing theme behind every single one of billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates’s biannual... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2018-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Best Gifts for Wine Lovers

It can be intimidating to find the right gift for a wine lover, especially if you don’t think of yourself as a wine person. But you don’t have to be able to tell the difference between Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon to give a wine gift that’s more elegant than an oversize wine glass and more... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld to mark Wood's 25th anniversary with library giveaway

Transworld is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Val Wood's first novel, The Hungry Tide (Penguin Random House), by giving out 10 sets of all the author’s books to Hull libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Horrid Henry book to mark series' 25th anniversary in 2019

Francesca Simon is publishing a new Horrid Henry book in 2019 with Hachette Children's Group as part of the series' 25th birthday celebrations. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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League of laureates join forces to mark two decades of role

A tour of former Children’s Laureates and a celebratory anthology are just some of the plans being put together to mark next year’s 20th anniversary of the Waterstones Children’s Laureate role. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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