This month sees the launch of Brain Shots: Summer of Unrest straight-to-digital ebook series: four x 10,000 word pieces of long-form journalism and commentary.Originating out of Bodley Head last year when it published six abridged digital editions of its titles, Brain Shots is fast becoming the pre-eminent brand for high quality digital non-fiction.The Summer of Unrest series b...
Download and listen to this month’s new fabulous summer podcast. In this edition there are summer reading recommendations from Julie Myerson and Tessa Hadley to get you in a holiday mood, readings from poet Adam O’Riordan and writer Moni Mohsin, an interview with the grandmother of Italian cooking Anna Del Conte and Alex Clark discusses Mervyn Peake in his centenary year with his children, Claire Penate, Sebastian and Fabien Peake. Listen now on the Vintage Books website or through iTunes.
Gail Rebuck is urging retailers to give their full support to the 2012 Quick Reads campaign. In an exclusive announcement via The Bookseller, she unveiled the eight titles which will make up the 2012 list and highlighted the growing need for widespread industry support.Read the Bookseller column below.There is universal political agreement that Britain's economic future lies as a creative nation, an educated nation, a literary nation.And yet 12 million people in this country have literacy difficulties and one third of the population doesn't pick up a book. There are two nations in Britain today - a nation that reads and a nation that can't or won't.As an industry, ...
2011 sees in the ten year anniversary of Tess Gerritsen being published by Transworld.Transworld published The Surgeon back in 2001. Since then year on year, Tess has written consistently scary and chilling thrillers whose sales have continued to soar. In 2006, Vanish became a number one bestseller in paperback and more recently we have seen Tess's last thriller The Killing Place go to the number one spot both in hardback and paperback editions.Coming into Transworld Tess told a thrilled in-house crowd about the inspirations behind her upcoming chiller The Silent Girl. Tess covered everything from the mysteries of martial arts and life in Boston's Chinatown, to the Rizzoli & Is...
Second Son by Lee Child will be published as an exclusive, specially priced eBook globally on 15th August. It will also be released as an audio digital download. This is the first time that Transworld has published a major author in digital exclusive format. Lee Child takes his millions of readers back in time, to a family living on a military base in the Pacific, and to its youngest son – a quiet, brilliant, and already heroic thirteen year old named Jack Reacher. Second Son is now available for pre-order from Amazon and the iBooks store.
At the 2011 Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) Awards for science writing in Britain and Ireland, Fred Pearce was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. These awards are described as the Oscars for science writing and it is a magnificent and well-deserved tribute. He was also runner up for the investigative journalism award for his brilliant 'climategate' reporting for the Guardian. Fred's new book, The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth will be published by Eden Project Books in May next year.
Wonderful news: Jonathan Cape has two poets on the shortlist for the 2011 Forward Prize for Poetry. John Burnside is shortlisted for his collection Black Cat Bone, published next month, and Michael Longley for his collection A Hundred Doors, published earlier this year. The winner of the £10,000 prize will be announced on 5th October.The full shortlist is as follows:John Burnside Black Cat Bone Jonathan CapeDavid Ha...
Nigella's Quick Collection app has received the Meffys Best Content 2011 Award.The award celebrates the most creative and exciting content for the mobile platform that enhances the overall consumer experience.The Quick Collection was shortlisted in a category that included products from Nike, CBS Interactive and Hungama mobile.Below is a list of all the category winners: Meffys 2011 WinnersBest Ad CampaignThe Coca Cola Company for Sprite Slam Dunk 2011Best Blockbuster AppResearch In Motion for BlackBerry TravelBest Brand on MobileVelti and Ericsson IPX for A&N Mobile CRMBest ContentAKQA for Nigella Quick CollectionBest Content Discovery & PersonalisationShazam for Shaz...
Vintage Publishing has two authors on the Pen/Ackerley Prize shortlist, Waking Up in Toytown by John Burnside (Cape/Vintage) and The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (Chatto/Vintage).The award is given to a literary autobiography of outstanding merit, written by an author of British nationality and published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. Past winners include Alan Bennett, Jenny Diski, Lorna Sage, Blake Morrison, Barry Humphries and Margaret Forster. The full shortlist is as follows:John Burnside - Waking Up in Toytown (Cape) Edmund de Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes (Chatto)Michael Frayn - My Father's Fortune (Faber)Jackie Kay - Red Dust Road (Picador) Th...
Danny Wallace has just completed a very successful tour to promote More Awkward Situations for Men taking in Waterstone's Piccadilly, Liverpool, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Cambridge, Nottingham and the independent City Books in Hove. We met fantastic range of people from couples who had got married because of Yes Man, a packed lunchtime signing of Shortlist readers and Assassin's Creed fans, some of the earliest joinees (from Danny's first book Join Me), pupils at a school which has been doing Random Acts of Kindness every Friday for a year, and a young guy of about 11 or 12 who was Danny's biggest fan and joined him on stage last night to read the part of the evil Kieran Mullins (http://bit.ly/r...
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