Why are women so captivated by tales of murder?

Rachel Monroe urges us to think more critically about the true-crime genre’s appeal. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-23 12:29:55 UTC ]

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Women dominate Authors’ Club longlist

Women dominate this year’s Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, with books by eight women making up the 11-title longlist as chair of the judging panel Lucy Popescu praises the diverse list.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Graphic novelist ordered to pay nearly $42 million in fiancee's torture murder

A Los Angeles judge has ordered a graphic novelist from a wealthy Canadian family to pay $41.6 million to the family of his slain fiancee, whom he brutally tortured and killed in 2016 just weeks after their daughter was born. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon delivered the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Issues and Authors at London Book Fair 2019: Women’s Voices

Many events at March's London Book Fair will feature authors and others focusing on women in the business and issues of diversity.  The post Issues and Authors at London Book Fair 2019: Women’s Voices appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gibson Square to publish first book on Khashoggi murder

Gibson Square is publishing the first book on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown acquires 'no-nonsense guide for women' by Obama's ex-assistant

Little, Brown has acquired a “no-nonsense guide for women” by Barack Obama’s former right-hand woman Alyssa Mastromonaco. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brand, Eclair and Lette join Comedy Women as judges

Comedy writers Katy Brand, Jenny Eclair and Kathy Lette are joining authors Marian Keyes and Allison Pearson to judge the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bologna Announces 2019 Themes: Women, African-American Culture, Handwriting

With programming on African-American culture, women’s achievement, and a resurgence of handwriting, Bologna Book Fair plans an ambitious first look at its physical renovations, too. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A New 33,000 Square Meters Added n its 56th edition, the... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How early NASA inspired the women of Kate Mascarenhas’ ‘Psychology of Time Travel’

Many popular time travel tales hinge on the idea that the past can be changed. The particular breed of time travel in Kate Mascarenhas’ debut novel, “The Psychology of Time Travel,” may sound limiting — its characters can’t voyage to any era before the time machine’s invention in the 1960s, and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus snaps up Cumming's tale of mother's disappearance

Chatto & Windus will publish Observer art critic Laura Cumming’s “astonishing” memoir uncovering the mystery of her mother’s disappearance as a child, entitled On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Guardian view on Dan Mallory: a twisted tale of publishing | Editorial

The story of Dan Mallory, aka the bestselling author AJ Finn, reads like a thriller. But it asks uncomfortable questions of the literary worldA true story worthy of a Patricia Highsmith thriller was published this week in the New Yorker. The magazine detailed the deceptions of Dan Mallory, who... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How books by women changed the world

The feminist publishing company Virago Press was set up by Carmen Callil in the 1970s Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH marks five years of Murder Most Unladylike with hardback edition

Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike with a signed hardback edition of the first book. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You Know You Want This review – Cat Person and other tales of the unexpected

While enjoyable, Kristen Roupenian’s horror stories don’t live up to the hype afforded her New Yorker hitIn publishing, the New Yorker’s Cat Person was rarer than a super blood wolf moon: a mere short story that became an international must-read, was released as a stand-alone paperback (inflated... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Atwood reveals cover for Handmaid’s Tale sequel

Margaret Atwood has revealed the cover for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Muriel centenary Sparks interest in women’s writing

Fi and Charlotte Duffy-Scott of Glasgow’s Category Is Books recommend eight books by Scottish women and non-binary writers, and Asif Khan, director of the Scottish Poetry Library, has done likewise with women poets. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s tale reckoned ‘too Scottish’ is revived

Auntie Robbo, a children’s book that features the rollicking adventures of an 80-year-old woman and her grandnephew, deemed "too Scottish" for publication in the 1940s, is being made available by Edinburgh-based indie Scotland Street Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Seven Dials acquires book on life inside women's prison

Emily Barrett, commissioning editor at Seven Dials and Orion Spring, has acquired world rights including dramatisation rights to a book about life inside a women’s prison by a former prison art teacher. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown scoops 'moving' Khmer Rouge tale

Little, Brown non-fiction imprint Robinson has bought a “moving and insightful” account of a daughter’s search for her missing father in the ‘Killing Fields’ of Cambodia.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jenny Downham looks at women’s rage in new YA

David Fickling Books (DFB) has acquired world English rights to Furious Thing, a YA on the theme of women’s rage by Jenny Downham. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lucy Foley | 'I wanted to read a modern murder mystery. So that’s what I wrote'

With three historical novels to her name, former editor Lucy Foley has turned her hand to a Highlands-set murder mystery. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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