Geoff Shandler & Judy Clain Promoted at Little, Brown
Yesterday Hachette Book Group USA announced two promotions at the Little, Brown and Company imprint.
Geoff Shandler has been named vice president and editorial director. Shandler will oversee the expansion in the imprint’s nonfiction program. Som...
Room leads longlist for Impac Dublin award
Emma Donoghue's novel receives most nominations in 147-strong field for €100,000 prizeEmma Donoghue's disturbing tale of an imprisoned boy, Room, is at the forefront of the 147 titles competing for one of the world's most lucrative literary prizes, t...
Galaxy triumph for Hollinghurst
Having been a shock omission from the Booker prize shortlist, The Stranger's Child author declared author of the yearHe was overlooked by the Booker judges last month, but the book trade has spoken and named Alan Hollinghurst its "author of the year" f...
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
The devastating, sordid truth is revealedReaders of Emma Donoghue's Room may have wondered how her five-year-old narrator fails to understand the word "stable" when applied to a patient's condition, yet is quite capable of transcribing words such as "c...
Why small is beautiful when it comes to festivals
One of my favourite festivals is the tiny but perfectly formed Galway theatre festival – and this year's instalment promises to be as brilliant (and boozy) as everWhat makes for a good arts festival? Above all, it has to be distinctive. Edinburgh is ...
Room tipped for Orange prize
Emma Donoghue's novel is 2/1 favourite to take £30,000 award for women's writingRoom lost out on the Booker to Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question, but Emma Donoghue's story of a boy and his mother locked in a tiny room for years is emerging as the...
Ex-Sesame Street writer makes Orange prize shortlist with first novel
Kathleen Winter and Emma Donoghue among novelists who will compete for £30,000 prize in strong year for female writersA former Sesame Street writer's first novel, which tells the story of a child born as a hermaphrodite in the far north-east corner of...
Orange prize 2011 shortlist – in pictures
Gallery: The UK's only annual book award for fiction by women, has announced its 2011 shortlist. Take a look at all the titles, and read our reviews
Orange shortlist shows women’s writing in ‘rude health’
Debut novelists predominate among six finalists tackling notably traumatic materialFirst-time novelists make up half the shortlist for the 2011 Orange prize for fiction, indicating "the rude health of women's writing", according to this year's chair of...
Booker Prize 2010: All the winners, and the 2010 shortlist
The Man Booker Prize 2010 winner, Howard Jacobson, has been announced. But does winning the Booker mean a boost in sales? And which of the previous winners has sold the most? We look at the sales data for every winner since 1969• Get the dataThe Man ...
Howard Jacobson Wins Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question
Author Howard Jacobson (pictured) has won the Man Booker Prize, taking a prize worth nearly $80,000. Here’s more about his prize winning novel, The Finkler Question: “a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and...
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