What next, after the 'Leave' win?

Literary and talent agent Diane Banks contemplates the next steps for the publishing industry following the UK's vote to leave the European Union. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Guatemala's F&G Editores Wins AAP International Freedom to Publish Award

Guatemala's F&G Editores publishing house has won the 2021 Association of American Publishers International Freedom to Publish | Jeri Laber Award. The publisher's founder, Raúl Figueroa Sarti, and his colleagues have been threatened with censure and worse by the Guatemalan government and... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Radden Keefe's 'revelatory' book on Sackler dynasty wins Baillie Gifford Prize

Patrick Radden Keefe has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his "revelatory" book on the rise and fall of the Sackler dynasty Empire of Pain (Picador), which judges hailed as a "future classic". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 21:31:45 UTC ]
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Imoh wins inaugural Lit in Colour Creative Student prize

Student Emmanuella Imoh has won the inaugural Lit in Colour Creative Student prize for her "bold and thought-provoking poem", told visually through a short video. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 11:03:29 UTC ]
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Winning Attention with That Book Proposal

Author and former acquisitions editor W. Terry Whalin explains how a good book proposal can really clinch a deal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Mayhew leaves Welbeck for The Book Publicist

Lyndsey Mayhew is leaving Welbeck to join non-fiction book publicity agency The Book Publicist as associate director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 14:15:36 UTC ]
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Waidner wins £10k Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold

Isabel Waidner has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for their "mind-bending" novel Sterling Karat Gold, published by indie Peninsula Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 00:44:35 UTC ]
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Transworld wins 10-way auction for His Name is George Floyd

Transworld has triumphed in a 10-way auction for His Name is George Floyd by two Washington Post reporters, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 17:52:20 UTC ]
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Bodley Head wins six-way auction for historian Stanmore's debut on practical magic

The Bodley Head has landed historian Tabitha Stanmore's debut, Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, after a six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 12:33:10 UTC ]
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Sutanto wins £3,000 CWIP Prize with debut 'crackling with comic energy'

Debut author Jesse Sutanto has won the CWIP Prize for Published Comic Novel, for her "deliciously frantic comedy caper" Dial A for Aunties (HarperCollins), with Dolly Alderton coming runner-up. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-08 09:52:15 UTC ]
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John Agard wins BookTrust’s Lifetime Achievement Award

BookTrust will today (9th November) present John Agard with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony in London. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-08 03:20:40 UTC ]
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Is Superman Circumcised? favourite to win Oddest book title of the year

This year’s Diagram prize also pits Curves for the Mathematically Curious against The Life Cycle of Russian Things and Hats: A Very Unnatural HistoryAn examination of the Jewish origins of the Man of Steel, Is Superman Circumcised?, is vying with an up-to-date look at camel milk and related... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2021-11-05 11:52:23 UTC ]
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South African Damon Galgut Wins 2021 Booker Prize

South African novelist Damon Galgut was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel 'The Promise,' published by Europa Editions. The novel follows the lives of three white siblings brought together by a series of funerals that follow the trajectory of the history of post-apartheid South Africa. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins the 2021 Prix Goncourt

The publishing house Philippe Rey has its first Prix Goncourt winner: Senegalese author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Rights are selling extremely quickly. The post Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins the 2021 Prix Goncourt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-03 13:57:38 UTC ]
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Zenith wins consolidated Confused.com, Uswitch and Zoopla media business

Combined accounts worth £53m in annual billings in 2020, according to Nielsen data. Continue reading at Media Week

[ Media Week | 2021-11-03 11:07:53 UTC ]
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Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize with 'spectacular' novel The Promise

Damon Galgut has won the Booker Prize with The Promise (Chatto & Windus), hailed by judges as “a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-03 11:06:30 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton restructure sees Dickinson step up and Howard leave

Hodder & Stoughton has announced a restructure to the fiction editorial team with Jo Dickinson stepping up and Kate Howard leaving the company after 16 years. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-02 12:31:59 UTC ]
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Children's book on Governor General's Literary Award short list a win for Indigenous publishing, author says

A children's book shortlisted for a 2021 Governor General's Literary Award was written by a University of Guelph associate professor who specializes in the history of Indigenous Peoples and illustrated by an Ojibway multidisciplinary artist. ... Continue reading at CBC

[ CBC | 2021-11-02 08:00:00 UTC ]
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