Omar El Akkad’s novel about a Syrian boy’s panicked flight is a testament to the impossible predicament confronted by millions of people. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
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Walking along a battered stretch of her beloved beach, Sandie Iverson ticked off the destruction from recent storms. The boardwalk and a seawall collapsed. Palm trees were ripped from their roots. As winter rains alight on Southern California, Iverson couldn’t help but wonder what fresh calamity... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cath Senker has won this year’s £2,000 Educational Writers’ Award for her book about refugees and mass migration. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize has returned for a second year, newly expanded, with partners across the world and a new residency in Andalucia. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's been less than a day since the New York Times published a brutal report about the state of affairs at Facebook, including a deep look at the company's failure to properly identify and deal with fake news and Russian interference. The company alr... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unbound is to give 345 copies of the refugee anthology, A Country to Call Home, to schools and youth organisations across the UK, including Essex, Kent, Norfolk and Yorkshire. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has acquired Tamsin Calidas’s I Am An Island, her account of 15 years living on a croft on a remote island in the Hebrides. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury division Osprey Games is launching a game, "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Board Game of English Magic", based on of Susanna Clarke’s cult novel. Coming in June 2019, the game - inspired by the 2005 bestseller Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury) - will see players... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Richard Gregory Bauer didn’t hide his identity when he gathered information to hack into the email and social media accounts of his female friends, family members and co-workers. In some cases, the U.S. attorney’s office said, he told them via Facebook that he was working on a class project and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook said Thursday that it has purged more than 800 U.S publishers and accounts for flooding users with politically oriented content that violated the company's spam policies, a move that could reignite accusations of political censorship. The accounts and pages, with names like Reasonable... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While focusing upon authors and books, Midwest indie booksellers and Great Lakes region indie booksellers also praised the format and logistics of this year's Heartland Fall Forum in Minneapolis. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There are no shortage of contenders to the throne being produced by Apple, Hulu, Netflix, HBO, and Amazon (especially Amazon!). Can anything match the drama and spectacle of the original? With the news that Netflix is creating a new TV series and film projects around C.S. Lewis’ children’s... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic imprint Alison Green Books will next year publish a children’s book featuring artwork from 39 illustrators to support Three Peas, a charity that helps refugees. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nearly 50 million Facebook accounts have been affected by a security breach that enabled hackers to take over users’ accounts, the social media giant announced Friday. The new breach comes as Facebook strives to convince its more than 2 billion users that it can be trusted. It is grappling with... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking has bought a narrative history of the Allied bombing of Dresden by historian Sinclair McKay, author behind the Christmas hit Bletchley Park Brainteasers (Headline). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actors Jeremy Irons, Maxine Peake, Zoë Wanamaker and Christopher Eccleston have joined a campaign, organised by Comma Press, calling for an end to the British policy of immigration detention. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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War photographer Paul Conroy is magnetic as he untangles the nuances of his profession in this screen version of his memoirChristopher Martin’s film is an urgent documentary version of Under the Fire, the memoir published by war photographer Paul Conroy about his friendship and professional... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kurdish Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani has lived in detention on Manus Island for five years. The text for his book was written and sent largely by text message. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2018-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hurst Publishers is to release an SAS commander’s account of the Falklands War with a foreword by Sir Max Hastings. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook said Tuesday it removed 652 pages and accounts associated with separate influence campaigns originating from Iran and Russia. The social network did not say what the campaigns’ goals were, but described one as being organized by Iranian state media and the other linked to Russian... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Nicola Davies will this autumn sell off artwork donated by illustrators such as Steve Antony and Sophy Henn to her #3000Chairs campaign, which raises money to help child refugees. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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