A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng has won Best Football Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards. The prize ceremony took place last night at the Savoy in London. The winners of each category are now eligible for a 'best overall sports book of the year award' voted for by the public (this was won last year by Yellow Jersey's Anthon...
Three Random House Group titles have been picked for the Richard and Judy Summer Book Club, exclusive to WHS, which returns this month with an extra two titles. Random House titles The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Arrow); The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Vintage); and The Secrets Between Us by Louise Douglas (Bantam Press) are on the 10-strong list, which launches with Victoria Hislop’s...
-First staff fundraising event raises more than £4,000 - Staff from The Random House Group have voted in their hundreds for children’s hospice service, Shooting Star CHASE to be the focus of their charity support this year. Shooting Star CHASE supports over 600 families in western London, Surrey and West Sussex; in their own homes and at their two children’s hospic...
Susie Harries' Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus) has won this year's Wolfson History Prize. The prize was awarded jointly with Professor Alexandra Walsham's The Reformation of the Landscape (Oxford University Press) and each author won £25,000. The winners for 2012 were announced at a reception at the National Gallery; the 2012 judges were Sir Keith Thomas, Professor David Cannadine, Professor Richard Evans and Professor Julia Smith. The annual prize from the Wolfson Foundation celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
ANDREW MOTION answers Twitter questions about Treasure Island, being Poet Laureate, sherry and the Queen!Designers SUE TIMNEY and STEVE DAVIES from Saatchi and Saatchi discuss their book cover designs for the new Vintage Classics series of modern classics launched in conjunction with the Victoria & Albert MuseumGraphic novelist SIMONE LIA talks about dating, a Welsh nunnery, INXS, and her new book Please God, Find Me A HusbandFormer Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION reads two poems from Chinese political activist and Novel Laureate LIU XIAOBO's June Fourth Elegies - a collection of the poems Liu Xiaobo has written each year on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Liu Xiaob...
Today marks the exciting release of RHCP's brand new app for the bestselling Princess Poppy series. Available to buy for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, this magical interactive app will provide hours of perfect princess fun and delight for parents to share with their children. The app has been created by Random House and award-winning developer Robot Media and is available here.T...
Three Random House authors have been included in the longlist for the Desmond Elliott Prize; SJ Watson (Before I Go To Sleep) and Rachel Joyce (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry), along with Vintage author Grace McCleen (The Land of Decoration).2012 marks the fifth anniversary of the £10,000 award for a first novel published in the UK, set up in memory of the celebrated publisher and literary agent Desmond Elliott to 'enrich the careers of new writers'. The criteria of the Prize require longlisted novels to display confident and compelling narratives and feature original and arresting characters.This year's panel of judges is chaired by author Sam Llewellyn. He is joined by Tom Gat...
Congratulations to Karen Russell, whose Swamplandia! has been named a 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction. Denis Johnson and the late David Foster Wallace were also named as finalists. Swamplandia! tells the story of thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree's quest to save her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell's debut novel is an arrestingly beautiful and inventive work. As the New York Times reports, the Pulitzer committee has declined to select a winner for the 2012 prize.
The Random House Group and Booktrack announced the launch of their first UK sound-enhanced ebook on the first day of the 2012 London Book Fair (April 16th, 2012).Sir Andrew Motion’s Silver: Return to Treasure Island, his sequel to the classic Treasure Island, which was published in hardback by Jonathan Cape, pat of The Random House Group, last month, was chosen as the launch title. The ebook version will come with optional sound effects such as wasps buzzing, bacon sizzling and trees swaying, in addition to music.Sir Andrew said: “I am excited that SILVER will be appearing in a BOOKTRACK edition and I hope that this groundbreaking digital format encourages new readers (and old) t...
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco and translated by Richard Dixon has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.The winner will be announced at a reception in London on 14th May, and the winning author and translator will share the £10,000 prize.Soon-to-be Chatto author Yan Lianke also appears on the shortlist; Chatto will publish his novel, Lenin's Kisses, in spring 2013.The full shortlist:Alice by Judith Hermann, translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo (The Clerkenwell Press)Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld, translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M Green (Alma Books)Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke, translated from the Chinese by Cindy ...
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