More than 1,500 e-books will be available on Pearson’s new Netflix-style student subscription app, Pearson+, which will also feature notetaking features and audiobooks.
Funeral for Mo Hayder
A funeral for award-winning crime author Clare Dunkel, published under the name Mo Hayder, will be held later this month.
U.K. authors rally to protect copyright
Aug 02 2021 More than 2,500 authors have put their names to a letter in London's Sunday Times as part of the Save Our Books campaign, launched in an effort to maintain the U.K.'s "copyright exhaustion" principle. The paper also ran a news story about the campaign. Exhaustion of copyright refers to an author's selling—or licensing of a publisher to sell—copies of their book in designated markets. It is feared that the British government will approve a relaxation of the territorial component of copyright, enabling editions meant for markets beyond Europe to be sold in the European Economic Area, including...
Books in the Media: Slimani’s third novel a ‘panoramic, ambitious tale’
Leïla Slimani's third novel The Country of Others (Faber & Faber) picked up reviews in The Bookseller, the Guardian, the Times and the Financial Times this week.
Sex Education star Reynolds to read audiobook of Day’s new novel
Actress Tanya Reynolds will read the audiobook of Elizabeth Day’s forthcoming novel Magpie (Fourth Estate) which will be released along with the hardback and e-book on 2nd September.
Olusoga writes foreword for Hodder reissue of Equiano’s classic memoir
David Olusoga has written a new foreword for Hodder & Stoughton reissue of Black history classic The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, more than 230 years after its original publication.
HarperCollins Elevate network donates £10k to charities
HarperCollins' Elevate network for Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff has donated £10,000 to three charities focused on helping under-represented communities throughout the UK.
Romance Writers of America Awards Book with Genocidal “Hero”
Content warning: This post discusses racism and genocide against Indigenous peoples As with many controversies in the book world, I first heard about this in a subtweet I didn’t understand. After a minute of scrolling, the issue had become clear: On Saturday evening, the Romance Writers of America (RWA) announced that Karen Witemeyer’s At Love’s Command won the VIVIAN award for “Romance with Religious or Spiritual Elements.” In the prologue, which you can read in the Amazon preview, the book’s romantic “hero” is a Captain participating in the Wounded Knee Massacre after thirteen years of “Indian fighting.” Wounded Knee was...
Duo become first joint editors of Poetry Wales
Marvin Thompson and Zoë Brigley Thompson are the first poets to join Poetry Wales as joint editors of the magazine with Thompson the journal’s first editor of colour.
Crime novelist Mo Hayder dies aged 59 from motor neurone disease
Jul 29 2021 British crime novelist Mo Hayder, whose dark, shocking thrillers won her the title of “queen of fear”, has died at the age of 59 after being diagnosed with motor neuron disease in December. Hayder was the pen name for Clare Dunkel. Her death was announced by her publisher Penguin Random House, which said she had “fought valiantly” since her diagnosis on 22 December, but that “the disease progressed at an alarming rate”. Source: The Guardian More News Stories
