Got It Covered 2019: take our book jacket quiz [Click on the link above] Do you know your book jackets? Test your knowledge now, with our annual book cover quiz! We’ve cut out images from 50 book covers; can you identify the book from that tiny snapshot? All books were released for the first time…
Booker Prize authors to meet Front Row listeners in new BBC coverage BBC Radio 4 series “Front Row” has announced Booker Prize-shortlisted authors will meet its listeners as part of new plans to cover the award. Designed to encourage debate and discussion as part of the wider year-long literature season on the BBC, six book…
The Bookseller acquires BookGig website from HarperCollins BookGig, the publisher-agnostic website dedicated to book events, launched by HarperCollins in October 2016, has been acquired by The Bookseller. BookGig helps readers connect with their favourite authors by listing book related events for as many different authors and genres as possible. Since launch, BookGig has featured thousands of events across…
The Bookseller has launched a new website – Books in the Media – ‘The comprehensive guide to book reviews from The Bookseller’. Catchy title, don’t you think? Welcome to the first Books in the Media (BIM) update – it marks the Beta launch of our new website which we hope will become the definitive…
Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa | Dare Not Linger | Pan Macmillan 9781509809592 | £25 | 19 October The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela’s memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel…
In today’s Bookseller Briefing (w/e 14 November) on the blog, the headline reads ‘IoE study shows reading for pleasure boosts vocabulary’. Am I being curmudgeonly, or should I have created a ‘Bleedin’ Obvious’ page and posted the IoE article there instead? Back in the 1970s I remember writing what was called a Use of English…