Whiting takes double history for L,B

Little, Brown non-fiction publishing director Tim Whiting has sealed two "strong" deals... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Quercus takes two more from O'Leary

Quercus has signed two more standalone novels from bestselling author Beth O’Leary.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-01 08:14:03 UTC ]
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Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too.

With its elegant mix of science fiction and metaphysical mystery, Le Tellier’s thriller rests somewhere between “Lost” and “Manifest.” Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-11-30 17:01:16 UTC ]
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Williams takes University of Wales Press into second century with ambitious plans

The University of Wales Press, which is gearing up to toast its centenary in 2022, has two titles celebrating the landmark and plans to launch a ‘start-up’ from within its operations. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 05:37:28 UTC ]
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Mullins joins Yale's Little Histories series with art edition

Yale University Press is gearing up to publish A Little History of Art by Charlotte Mullins, an "exciting" addition to the press' Little Histories series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 07:18:20 UTC ]
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Bodley Head pre-empts 'landmark' account of human history by Galor

The Bodley Head has pre-empted a "landmark" account of human history by Oded Galor. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-18 09:20:49 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Authors and Creators Skew Heavily White

Penguin Random House’s first report auditing the diversity of its contributors found that the demographics of its authors, illustrators, translators, and other creators “do not reflect U.S. reader demographics when it comes to race and ethnicity.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Agard makes history with BookTrust win

The prolific and esteemed wordsmith John Agard has become the first poet to win BookTrust’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 23:58:56 UTC ]
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Wildfire lands 'humorous deep-dive' into royal deaths throughout history by Edge

Wildfire has landed a "humorous deep-dive" into the deaths of the Kings and Queens of England and Scotland by medical historian and TikTok star Suzie Edge.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 16:32:23 UTC ]
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Trade Segments Had Double-Digit Gains in August

The trade publishing segment continues to perform well in 2021, with August sales up 15.1% in the adult category and ahead 21.8% in the children’s/young adult segment at publishers that report results to the Association of American Publishers’ StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors Guild doubles down on support of antitrust suit against publisher mega-merger

The Authors Guild likes what it sees in the federal antitrust suit aiming to block the $2 billion merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-11-05 22:15:11 UTC ]
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A Graphic Novel About 100 Years of Matrilineal Family History, From South China to Singapore

To hear Weng Pixin tell it, Let’s Not Talk Anymore started out as a kind of “fuck you” move after a particularly bad fight with her mom but—as these things tend to go—it gradually transformed into a project to locate herself within the moth-eaten story of her matrilineal line.  Moving back and... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2021-11-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
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My White Teacher Used A POC Pen Name To Sell Her Book. Should I Have Outed Her?

"This POC author was actually a blond white woman who didn’t seem to think there was anything wrong with her act of brownface." Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2021-11-02 13:00:03 UTC ]
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Ilex snaps up Bishopsgate archivists' history of queer love letters

Ilex Press has signed a deal for The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship, collected by Bishopsgate Institute archivists Rachel Smith and Barbara Vesey.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-29 21:04:12 UTC ]
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Amberley picks up 'comprehensive' history of the British Indian Army by Rathee

Amberley Publishing has landed a "comprehensive history" of the British Indian Army by Ravindra Rathee. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 01:55:21 UTC ]
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White Rabbit signs Lanegan's 'terrifying' account of Covid-19 fight

White Rabbit has signed a new memoir by Mark Lanegan, described as a “terrifying account” of Covid-19, which left the songwriter slipping in and out of a coma. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 22:09:40 UTC ]
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The History Press lands 'enthralling account' of hidden war stories from Pearson

The History Press has landed an "enthralling account" of hidden war stories from Berlin-based university lecturer and cultural historian Joseph Pearson.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 16:49:43 UTC ]
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Rochester and Bayard-White join Hay House as editorial team expands

Hay House UK is expanding its editorial department and has appointed Helen Rochester as editorial director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 04:55:59 UTC ]
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A Debut Novel of a Life in the Arctic, Beyond History’s Reach

In “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,” by Nathaniel Ian Miller, a young man swaps the daily grind for the unpeopled expanses of the Far North. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-10-26 09:00:03 UTC ]
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Quercus to publish YA edition of Saad's Me and White Supremacy

Quercus has secured the YA edition of anti-racism workbook Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 08:16:05 UTC ]
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Bookstat: The Couple at No 9 doubles up at the top

Claire Douglas' The Couple at No 9 (Penguin) notched up a second week in the Bookstat e-book number one spot, for the week ending 16th October. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-20 10:06:04 UTC ]
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