David Walliams’ November releases will be a novel about about an ice monster in Victorian times and a picture book about a baby penguin who wants to fly, HarperCollins Children’s Books has confirmed. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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This week's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had a lot more Easter eggs in its basket than previous episodes. Here's a breakdown. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last night's "F.Z.Z.T." wasn't very heavy with the comic book easter eggs, but it was filled to the brim with callbacks to earlier events in Marvel's movies. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for The Pike, her biography of philandering Italian poet and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actors Joanna Lumley, Julia McKenzie, Rob Brydon and Miranda Hart are to star in the BBC1... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's author David Walliams will appear at the Palace Theatre in London on 7th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You can't necessarily judge a book by its cover, but you can tell a lot about the content from it. For instance, when a certain font is paired with an illustrated character portrait featuring a dangling cigarette and/or a dangerous dame, clearly you are holding a pulpy detective novel from the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new study finds that reading literary fiction “leads people to perform better on tests that measure empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Walliams' new children's novel, Demon Dentist (HarperCollins), has become the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert plunges into historical fiction with a creative passion in the novel 'The Signature of All Things.'With a charming, flawed heroine straight out of Jane Austen, a Dickensian rags-to-riches story and thwarted romances that hark back to the Brontës,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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So what about that National Book Awards fiction longlist? It's a good one, and the last of the four longlists to be released by the National Book Foundation this week.So what about that National Book Awards fiction longlist? It’s a good one, and the last of the four longlists to be released by... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion has signed a trilogy of novels from historian Kate Williams. Jon Wood, deputy group... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The sun is slowly dragging its way out of the earth and up the trunks of the black gum trees and loblolly pines when a silent figure appears from out of the fog. Ashen like the floor of a crematorium, hollow eye sockets all but a rebuke to the wan coastal light filtering through the leaves, the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pamela Erens chronicles prep school love in 'The Virgins,' Elizabeth Cohen writes online dating short stories in 'The Hypothetical Girl' Mario Alberto Zambrano impresses with 'Loteria.'The Virgins Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown senior editor Rowan Cope has bought a debut by US journalist and blogger Emily... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lagardere has reported sales in its publishing division up 3.1% like-for-like in the first half... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Technology companies may be hiding behind legal jargon to avoid being more forthcoming in their responses to new documents on government surveillance that were disclosed Friday, some experts say. Internet and software companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook “are legally... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hairy Bikers Dave Myers and Si King's new weight-loss tome, The Hairy Dieters: Eat for Life (... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon announced a Kindle World license for the books of Kurt Vonnegut, but not everyone thinks it's a great idea. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The two-book deal William Morrow signed with Patricia Cornwell earlier this month was just the latest high-profile deal in a concerted effort by parent company HarperCollins to rebuild the house’s fiction list. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Haruki Murakami book that has sold 1 million copies a week in Japan is coming to America. It has been selling spectacularly -- particularly for a work of complex literary fiction.The Haruki Murakami book that has sold 1 million copies a week in Japan is coming to America. It has been selling... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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