Sam Savage, author of Firmin, dies aged 78
Author Sam Savage, whose first novel, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, was published when he was 65 and went on to become an international bestseller, has died aged 78. His publisher,...
View ArticleRussell Baker, Pulitzer-winning NY Times columnist and humorist, dies at 93
Russell Baker, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose whimsical, irreverent "Observer" column appeared in The New York Times and hundreds of other newspapers for 36 years and turned a...
View ArticleA miracle in action: Diana Athill's editorial genius
Writing in The Guardian, Christobel Kent eulogizes writer and memoirist, Diana Athill, who died this week aged 101, while also giving insight into the vital role that editors play in book publishing,...
View Article"There There" by Tommy Orange wins Best First Book Award from NBCC
"There There," by Tommy Orange, has won the John Leonard Award for Best First Book from the National Book Critics Circle.
View ArticleMin Jin Lee's "Pachinko" was the longest-running bestseller of 2018
"Pachinko," by Min Jin Lee, was the longest-running bestseller of 2018, according to Publishers Weekly, which is particularly extraordinary given that it released in early 2017: It was on PW's 2018...
View ArticlePenguin Random House closing Spiegel & Grau imprint
After nearly 14 years of publishing, Spiegel & Grau, the celebrated imprint launched by successful editors Cindy Spiegel & Julie Grau, is being shuttered. With the closure, the imprint's...
View ArticleBooker prize trustees search for new sponsor after Man Group exit
The Man Booker prize is searching for a new sponsor after the hedge fund company Man Group announced it was ending its 18-year relationship with Britain's most prestigious literary award. The Booker...
View ArticleA new model for local news reporting?
Steve Cavendish, a former editor of the Nashville Scene and Washington City Paper, writes about the dire state of local newspapers, and his hopes that his new venture, to relaunch the Nashville Banner...
View Article"The Cut Out Girl" wins Costa Book of the Year Award
The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es has won the overall Costa Book Award, with the judges declaring it, "the hidden gem of the year." This biography tells the true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland...
View ArticleDetained asylum seeker wins Australia's richest literary prize
The winner of Australia's richest literary prize did not attend the ceremony. His absence was not by choice. Behrouz Boochani, whose debut book won both the Aus$25,000 non-fiction prize at the...
View ArticleMeet the folk hero of Davos: the writer who told the rich to stop dodging taxes
One of the biggest stars to come out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week wasn't a CEO or a head of state or a venture capitalist. It was Rutger Bregman, a Dutch journalist and...
View ArticleJD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms
JD Salinger's son has confirmed for the first time that the late author of The Catcher in the Rye wrote a significant amount of work that has never been seen, and that he and his father's widow are...
View ArticleA suspense novelist's trail of deceptions
Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, "The Woman in the Window." His life contains even stranger twists.
View ArticleRosamunde Pilcher has died aged 94
In 1988 the 14th novel by a little-known 63-year-old British author was published in New York. The Shell Seekers, the 500-page story of a woman, Penelope Keeling, looking back on her life and loves...
View ArticlePaperback pioneer Betty Ballantine dead at 99
Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for science fiction and other genres through such...
View ArticleAndrea Levy, chronicler of the Windrush generation, dies aged 62
The writer Andrea Levy, who explored the experience of Jamaican British people in a series of novels over 20 years has died, aged 62, from cancer. After starting to write as a hobby in her early 30s,...
View ArticleW.E.B. Griffin dies aged 89
Prolific author William E. Butterworth III, who wrote under the name W.E.B. Griffin, has died aged 89.
View ArticleThe Inner Lives of Book Clubs: Now Available
We are pleased to announce the publication of The Inner Lives of Book Clubs! This fascinating report is the first to really get to the heart of the book club experience. It's the result of two surveys...
View ArticleSilicon Valley billionaire takes over as new sponsor of Booker Prize
Silicon Valley billionaire, philanthropist and author Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman's charitable foundation has been announced as the new sponsor of the Booker prize, a month after the...
View ArticleSquinky pigsquiffle! How Roald Dahl teaches children creative swearing
The Guardian has a fun article on Susan Rennie's book, Roald Dahl's Rotsome and Repulsant Words, which is worth a read for all Dahl fans, and particularly lovers of his 1982 classic, The BFG: If a...
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