Wolf Hall to be BBC drama

Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate) will be turned... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The biggest threat to the BBC's independence is the corporation itself | George Monbiot

It follows a news agenda set by media oligarchs. Instead it should be investigating power, money and their influence on our livesThey don’t want balance, they want possession. The oligarchs who own the newspapers will never accept the BBC, because it does not belong to them. However tame and... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-10-07 06:00:30 UTC ]
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Chelsea Green Prepares Naomi Wolf Release

As Chelsea Green prepares to release Naomi Wolf's previously-cancelled 'Outrages,' it’s the politics of American publishing that worry publisher Margo Baldwin. "You can disagree with me. But you don’t get to tell me what I can publish or not publish," Baldwin said. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Hall's menopause-themed novel goes to Head of Zeus

Head of Zeus will publish Georgie Hall's "funny and frank" debut novel, Woman of a Certain Rage.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-25 03:42:39 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus to publish BBC Radio 4's Covid chronicles

This November Chatto & Windus will publish a collection of lockdown stories and experiences from BBC Radio 4’s "PM", with a foreword from the programme's presenter Evan Davis. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 13:23:06 UTC ]
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Exhibit Halls Go Virtual, Too

This year’s show floors have moved online as well, and some will be up through the end of the year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC's commitment to books

The last six months, since the start of lockdown, has been full of revelations - for us as a society and for all of us as individuals. Both the fragility and preciousness of our social infrastructure has rarely been more starkly highlighted, and we’ve all undergone personal experiences that have... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-10 20:42:44 UTC ]
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Frankfurter Buchmesse Pivots From the Exhibition Hall to Its Digital Evocation

COVID-19 travel restrictions prevent a physical exhibition at the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair, as the trade show turns its focus to digital. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse Pivots From the Exhibition Hall to Its Digital Evocation appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-09-08 13:19:02 UTC ]
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BBC Books goes Behind the Sequins with Ballas

BBC Books has picked up Behind the Sequins, a book by dance star and “Strictly” head judge Shirley Ballas detailing her “dramatic and determined” life. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-27 09:09:12 UTC ]
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Ross' comic novel adapted for online drama

David F Ross' novel The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas is to be adapted for an online production, beginning on 30th July.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 20:26:38 UTC ]
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Canongate's Terri White memoir optioned by Bad Wolf

Production company Bad Wolf has optioned Terri White's memoir Coming Undone (Canongate, 2020) for TV.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 05:17:52 UTC ]
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‘Caravaggio’s ‘Cardsharps’ on Trial’ raises questions of artistic authenticity amid riveting courtroom drama

Another new masterwork of scholarship is also available: G. Thomas Tanselle’s “Descriptive Bibliography.” Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-08 16:30:33 UTC ]
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W&N to publish 'savage' novel from Halle Butler

W&N has acquired Jillian, a "savage, hilarious" novel about two employees at a gastroenterologist's office by Halle Butler. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-28 13:34:54 UTC ]
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PW Talks with ALA Executive Director Tracie D. Hall

With a virtual ALA conference now set for June 24–26, PW caught up with Hall over two days in mid-May to talk about guiding the association’s necessary, complex transformation. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Scott's Treachery of Spies on track for TV drama

TV and film rights in Manda Scott's historical thriller A Treachery of Spies have sold to London-based production outfits Beaglepug Films and Enriched Media Group.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-19 05:02:51 UTC ]
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Evaristo, Webb and Gaiman join BBC Arts Big Book Weekend

Bernardine Evaristo, Robert Webb and Neil Gaiman are among the line-up for the Big Book Weekend, a three-day virtual festival broadcast by BBC Arts. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-25 10:45:46 UTC ]
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BBC Arts launches Culture in Quarantine with Big Books Weekend

BBC Arts has launched Culture in Quarantine, a virtual arts festival “rooted in the experience of national lockdown”, with highlights including "The Big Book Weekend", co-founded by Kit de Waal and Molly Flatt. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-25 12:02:11 UTC ]
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Savidge takes up library role for BBC Novels That Shaped Our World

Simon Savidge has left his role at Liverpool Libraries to take charge of logistics for the BBC’s Novels That Shaped Our World libraries events programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-09 06:33:08 UTC ]
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BBC follows Mantel for six months in new documentary

A BBC documentary on Hilary Mantel will air next week, following the author for six months in the run up to The Mirror & the Light (4th Estate) being published. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-26 12:50:21 UTC ]
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Can Rupert Murdoch and Boris Johnson Team Up to Kneecap the BBC?

Over the past five years, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been quietly building a major position in the U.K. radio Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2020-02-25 22:25:24 UTC ]
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Who should star in the upcoming BBC adaptation of Conversations With Friends?

Sally Rooney’s takeover of the world continues apace today with the announcement that the Irish literary phenom’s debut novel Conversations With Friends will be adapted into a twelve-part series for the BBC. Like the upcoming BBC/Hulu adaptation of Rooney’s 2019 juggernaut Normal People, which... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-02-25 18:39:10 UTC ]
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