Whitehead shortlisted for Arthur C Clarke Award

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning The Underground Railroad (Fleet) has found itself a place on the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction literature. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published debut on Betty Trask Prize shortlist

The Society of Authors has announced its shortlist for this year’s £10,000 Betty Trask Prize - including for the first time a self-published novel, Speak its Name by Kathleen Jowitt.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International line-up of illustrators on Klaus Flugge shortlist

The shortlist of the second Klaus Flugge Prize reveals a global line-up of American and British publishers with illustrators also from Korea and Italy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Free Speech Attorney to Receive First ABA Meskis Award

Attorney Michael A. Bamberger has been named the inaugural honoree of the American Booksellers Association's Joyce Meskis Free Speech Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indigo Dreams wins Most Innovative Publisher at Saboteur Awards

Dead Ink’s email-based novella The Night Visitors and poet Hollie McNish have both been honoured at the Saboteur Awards this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ockham NZ Book Awards: Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press the big winners

Waikato author Catherine Chidgey was the big winner at this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus lands two on Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize shortlist

Head of Zeus has two books shortlisted for the £10,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Arthur to publish memoir with Hodder

Singer songwriter James Arthur is publishing a memoir with Hodder and Stoughton on 5th October, called Back to the Boy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New £10,000 award for indie publishers launches

The Clarissa Luard Award, a new £10,000 award for independent publishing, has been set up by Arts Council England to recognise the contribution that small publishers make to literature and to celebrate the "adventurousness, innovative spirit and creativity" of independent literary publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British Book Awards 2017: The ‘Nibbies’ Honor Literature and Industry

The combination of the UK's leading book industry awards with the 'Nibbies' produces The Bookseller's broad picture of a robust and busy books community. The post British Book Awards 2017: The ‘Nibbies’ Honor Literature and Industry appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Essex Serpent adds top British Book Award to prize haul

Sarah Perry crowns a much-garlanded year for her gothic romp, honoured alongside authors including Kiran Millwood Hargrave and JK RowlingTwo word-of-mouth bookselling success stories – Sarah Perry’s novel The Essex Serpent and Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s young adult book The Girl of Ink and Stars... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Younge and Foster on Bread & Roses shortlist

Gary Younge and Dawn Foster have been shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan and Waterstones take top prizes at the British Book Awards

Pan Macmillan and Waterstones are two of the biggest winners at this year's British Book Awards, aka The Nibbies, after being crowned Publisher of the Year and Book Retailer of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Essex Serpent crowned British Book Awards' Book of the Year

Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent (Serpent’s Tail) has won the British Book Awards accolade of Book of the Year, beating off strong competition from 36 shortlisted titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kathleen Jamie wins RGS's Ness Award

Scottish poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie is to receive the 2017 Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award for "outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two nods for Leyson on Branford Boase shortlist

Chicken House editor Rachel Leyson has two nods on the shortlist for the Branford Boase award, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winning The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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De Waal, Spufford and Buchanan shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize

My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal (Viking), which was recently optioned by Lenny Henry's production company for television, has been shortlisted for 2017's £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Read the First Six Pages of the New Issue of the Award-Winning Comic Pope Hats

I’ve raved before—to friends, to co-workers, and to Slate readers—about Ethan Rilly’s beautiful and subversive comic book Pope Hats. Issue No. 5, coming soon, is the longest and most fascinating installment yet. Returning to the friendship of neurotic law clerk Frances and actress-on-the-rise... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Batsford Prize reveals shortlists

The student shortlistees for the fifth Batsford Prize have been announced today, with 28 undergraduates and postgraduates at UK institutions contesting awards for Applied/Fine Art, Fashion, Illustration and, new for this year, Children’s Illustration. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lauren Laverne to host British Book Awards

BBC 6Music DJ Lauren Laverne is set to host this year’s British Book Awards, taking place on 8th May in a lavish ceremony at Grosvenor House in London’s Park Lane. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Duffy and Greenwell shortlisted for Green Carnation Prize

Stella Duffy, Garth Greenwell and Kei Miller are among the names to have been shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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