New Ferrante book received with enthusiasm abroad
The mysterious anonymous author who goes by the pen name Elena Ferrante has released a new novel in Europe, an event that has been greeted with long lines at recently… Read more »
UK wholesaler Gardners reopens to fulfill single book orders
As all of us in the book biz know, we don’t have a ‘biz’ at all without a distribution network. We can publish, publicise, pontificate and, er, something else beginning… Read more »
London Book Fair cancellation highlights need for IRL meetings
On Wednesday it was announced—after much speculation, and a raft of major publisher withdrawals—that the London Book Fair, scheduled for March 10th-12th, would not be going ahead. In an announcement… Read more »
Apple attempts to halt publication of book containing “company secrets”
Tom Sadowski, former head of the Apple App Store for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has written a book about his time at Apple (including meetings with CEO Tim Cook, according… Read more »
Racist colouring book distributed publicly by far right German political party AfD
Alternative for Germany (AfD) was only formed in 2013, but it has become the third largest political party in Germany. Eurosceptic and right-wing populist, it is supporting increasingly far-right views and is now, first and… Read more »
Cairo controversy: Egyptian publisher banned from book fair as owner languishes in jail
The Cairo Book Fair, held annually every January, is one of the biggest book fairs in the world, and the oldest and largest of its kind in the Middle East.… Read more »
Charles Sprawson, cult author of ‘Haunts of the Black Masseur’, has died
Sad news this week as it was announced that Charles Sprawson, author of Haunts of the Black Masseur, and widely regarded as the forerunner to the modern nature writing / wild… Read more »
Women writers dominate Italian lit market in wake of Ferrante Fever
One of the decade’s best publishing stories is the breakout success of pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante. She received the James Wood seal of approval, brought international flavor (and likely some much-improved… Read more »
Pagey mallard: Ducks, Newburyport scoops Goldsmiths Prize
This week saw the announcement of the Goldsmith’s Prize, which was established in 2013 “to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the College and to reward fiction that… Read more »
Australian football legend Tim Cahill to add to children’s book series
OK, I’ll level with you. Every week, we go through the books news looking for the most vital, interesting, controversial and otherwise blog-worthy stories. It’s fun! And the past couple… Read more »