William Collins has acquired writer and wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill’s debut, How to Speak Whale, following a five-way auction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-17 18:08:26 UTC ]
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Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me (Avon) kept its kid leather-gloved grip on the Bookstat e-book number one this spot week, as its Netflix adaptation was renewed for a second series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-27 17:20:07 UTC ]
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Monique Roffey has won the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year award for her “utterly original” sixth novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story, published by independent Peepal Tree Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 22:02:30 UTC ]
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Set in Brighton Beach in 1968, the novel follows three characters involved in a wacky film production. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-26 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Welbeck Publishing Group has acquired Start at the End: How Reverse-Engineering Can Lead to Success by Dan Bigham, which will explain the process and power of reverse-engineering in all areas of life. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 03:16:47 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan's sustainability imprint One Boat has triumphed in a nine-publisher auction for A Bigger Picture, billed as “part rousing manifesto, part poignant memoir” from Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-24 15:12:29 UTC ]
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Sphere will publish Christine Simon's debut novel The Patron Saint of Second Chances in 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-22 05:08:20 UTC ]
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Following a six-way auction, Yellow Kite has acquired the first trade book on the subject of lymphatic system, written by LA-based expert Lisa Levitt Gainsley whose clients have included the likes of Selma Blair and Freida Pinto. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-21 15:09:11 UTC ]
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Stevenson’s classic 19th-century novel is study in loyalty against a backdrop of violence and unrest. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-20 16:00:00 UTC ]
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Four years and a day ago, I boarded a bus with what felt like half of my journalism school class and traveled to Washington, DC, for the inauguration of Donald Trump and the Women’s March the day after. I’d arranged to cover the events for Pacifica radio and ended up writing a short dispatch for... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-01-20 13:36:57 UTC ]
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Amanda Gorman, who wrote and recited the official Biden Inaugural Poem, and Brayden Harrington, the teen who spoke at the Democratic Convention of bonding with Biden over stuttering, both landed book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired a "unique" and "chilling" debut thriller, Breathless, from mountaineer and former Puffin editor Amy McCulloch, in a two-book deal, following a six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 19:05:59 UTC ]
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HQ has landed a “beautiful” book on kindness by Hello! editor in chief Rosie Nixon featuring contributions from Fearne Cotton, Matt Haig, June Sarpong and the Duchess of York among others. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-18 03:10:24 UTC ]
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Raven Books is to publish People Like Them, the "brutal" English language debut of French Algerian novelist, actor and playwright Samira Sedira. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-15 06:48:48 UTC ]
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Scribe is to publish The Changing of the Guard: The British Army Since 9/11 by Simon Akam next month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 20:17:12 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster UK is to publish The Yellow Kitchen by Margaux Vialleron, a novel exploring love, friendship, identity and cooking. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 11:35:29 UTC ]
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For your playlist: “White Ivy,” “The Last American Aristocrat” and “The River Within.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-08 14:00:00 UTC ]
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A year marred by a deadly pandemic that battered the economy and by extraordinary political and racial strife nonetheless saw book sales soar, especially for a handful of major titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has scored The Captain’s Apprentice: Biography of a Song by Caroline Davison, to publish for the 150th anniversary of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 02:19:34 UTC ]
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Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) and Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Penguin) have topped the Amazon Charts for the last full week before Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-22 23:53:25 UTC ]
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The Thursday Murder Club sees off titles by Barack Obama and David Walliams in chaotic week for Britain’s book tradeRichard Osman’s cosy mystery about a group of elderly sleuths, The Thursday Murder Club, has become the first debut novel ever to become the Christmas No 1, selling a remarkable... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-12-22 15:00:18 UTC ]
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