November 13, 2018
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1. Amazon’s AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest 2. Peter Rabbit brought to life on augmented reality app Bookful 3. ‘Single-use’ as Collin’s dictionary’s word of the year 4. Terry Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’ Adaptation ‘The Watch’ Lands At BBC … Continue reading
November 6, 2018
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1. Women Poets’ prize reveals first three winners 2. Hundreds form a human chain to relocate books 3. Jill Biden is publishing a ‘deeply personal’ memoir 4. The 37th Sharjah International Book Fair 5. Bowker’s ISBN Site Has Been Hacked, and Credit … Continue reading
October 30, 2018
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1. Anthea Bell, ‘magnificent’ translator of Asterix and Kafka, dies aged 82 2. Little Free Library creator Todd Bol dies 3. #MeToo: Litfest organisers, publishers are being pushed to respond to charges against writers in India 4. Benyamin wins the … Continue reading
October 23, 2018
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1. Anna Burns wins 50th Man Booker Prize with Milkman 2. Alternative Nobel literature prize goes to Maryse Condé 3. Rebecca Ley wins Not the Booker prize 2018 with Sweet Fruit, Sour Land 4. FX Developing ‘Her Body And Other Parties’ … Continue reading
October 16, 2018
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1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accepts PEN Pinter prize with call to speak out 2. The 2018 National Book Award finalists 3. The JCB Prize for Literature shortlist 4. Penguin Random House to expand in Southeast Asia 5. The number of self-published … Continue reading
October 9, 2018
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1. It’s Time to Get Very Excited About Good Omens 2. Janitor wins prestigious literary prize from the university she cleans 3. Wikipedia rejects an entry on a Nobel Prize female winner 4. PRH to publish ‘Silence of the Lambs’ … Continue reading
October 2, 2018
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1. Paul McCartney announces picture book, Hey Grandude 2. Carnegie medal promises immediate action over lack of diversity 3. ‘A Little Life’ Comes to the Stage 4. The 2018 Goldsmiths prize for fiction shortlist 5. Jean-Claude Arnault, man at centre … Continue reading
September 25, 2018
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1. BBC short story prize selects all-female shortlist for fifth time 2. Danez Smith becomes youngest winner of Forward poetry prize 3. Japan’s Haruki Murakami withdraws from consideration for alternative Nobel award 4. French bookshops revolt after prize selects novel … Continue reading
September 18, 2018
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1. Customer wins bookshop in raffle 2. Viral video of grandmother makes picture book a bestseller 3. Woodward book breaks 93-year publishing record 4. Stormy Daniels to Publish Book About Her Life With and Without Trump Shortly Before Midterms 5. … Continue reading
September 11, 2018
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1. Gaiman and Murakami shortlisted for Nobel Prize substitute 2. Maldives bookseller advert ‘overwhelmed’ by applications 3. JD Salinger’s teenage lover challenges her ‘predator’ reputation 4. In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump 5. Waterstones buys … Continue reading