Longlist unveiled for 2015 Man Booker Prize
The initial round of nominees for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been revealed with the unveiling of the 13-strong longlist. Now, for the second…
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Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year shortlist revealed
Crime fiction festival Bloody Scotland has revealed the shortlist for its annual book of the year award, recognising excellence in Scottish crime writing. Drawn from…
Collaboration Nation: On the art of thinking ‘bananas’
This is a guest post from Jasmin Kirkbride. Jasmin is a regular blogger for BookMachine and Editorial Assistant at Periscope Books (part of Garnet Publishing).…
Matt Haig appears at Hull Central Library
This is a guest blog post from Stephanie Cox, BookMachine contributor, events organiser for SYP North, Publishing Editor at Emerald Group Publishing and blogger at…
BookMachine co-founder runner-up at Young Stationers’ Prize
BookMachine co-founder Laura Summers has been awarded proxime accesserunt (runner-up) at this year’s Young Stationers’ Prize. Judges called her ‘forward-thinking’, ‘innovative’ and possessed of ‘masses…
Go Set a Watchman tops 1.1 million sold in US and Canada
Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee’s unexpected companion piece to her sole previous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird – has sold 1.1 million copies…
All About Comics – A photo/twitter blog
On Tuesday night, Tim Pilcher treated a packed room at the Phoenix Artist Club to an entertaining talk on comic books. Currently working as Humanoids’…
Bello to republish out of print novels by Richmal Crompton
Bello – the digital imprint of Pan Macmillan focused on republishing out of print books – is set to release eleven novels for adults by…
On writing for children: Claire Barker interview
Claire Barker is author of the Knitbone Pepper series for children. The first book comes out on 1st August 2015 (Usborne Children’s Books). Here Stephanie…
Open access matters to more than academics, and here’s why
This is a guest post from Alison Jones. Alison is a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher. After a 23-year career in trade…
Why does shopping online for novels have to be a dry experience?
And by that, I don’t mean that we should all liquor up before browsing for our next great read. Rather, the slightly sterile point-click-scroll nature…
Co-founder of BookMachine among Stationers’ shortlist
The Young Stationers’ Prize is awarded for achievement and promise in journalism, publishing, and any other trade of the Stationers’ Company. This year, BookMachine co-founder…
Audio rights making waves
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. It’s a bit of a contradiction in terms but one of the…
Malleable Models: The real effects of the digital revolution on business
This is a guest post from Jasmin Kirkbride. Jasmin is a regular blogger for BookMachine and Editorial Assistant at Periscope Books (part of Garnet Publishing).…
Foyles hosting summer holiday activities across branches
Foyles has announced a series of children’s events taking place across its branches in London and Bristol throughout the school summer holidays, dubbing it the…
