Congratulations
this morning to Kogan Page who won
TWO awards at the 2019 IPG Independent Publishing Awards last night. They were
named Academic
and Professional Publisher of the Year and also took home The Bookseller
International Achievement Award. The judges said “Kogan Page is doing so well in some
difficult markets, and the confident move into the US shows their ambition.”
Well done KP – that is brilliant news! You can see all thirteen winners here.
Chris McQueer's hilariously surreal snapshots of working-class
Scotland have been described as “Limmy
meets Irvine Welsh” and “Like Charlie
Brooker on Buckfast.” We are very excited
to tell you that his bestselling short story collection Hings (pb, £8.99, 978 0995623866)
has now been adapted for the BBC and is coming to the iPlayer on 9 May! You can
see that page here, and
watch a couple of trailers – it looks brilliant! The BBC say “Hings is guaranteed to evoke a reaction in anyone
who watches it, whether it’s laughter, tears, tears of laughter or
mouth-wide-open shock.” McQueer’s second collection, HWFG (Here We Fucking Go, 978 1912489107,
£9.99, pb) has also had a lot of praise; please do get these titles on display
if you haven’t already, with all the BBC exposure, I have a feeling this author
could be about to go MEGA! You can read all about him in a Guardian feature here
who said “his affectionately,
sometimes surgically, observed characters have an effervescence that the likes
of Welsh or Brooker don’t always allow. His stories, which start off
disarmingly ordinary then twist towards something altogether more surreal or
horrifying, are as likely to end with a slap of humour than teeth-grinding
nihilism.” There’s also a great piece here
on Glasgow Live where Chris talks
about how he took his offbeat yarns from page to screen. The books are
published by 404Ink.
The GCSEs are just
about to begin – so lots of desperate parents out there will be only too keen
to buy a copy of Crown’s bestselling
The GCSE Mindset (pb, £18.99, 978 1785831843), to help their 16-year-olds
get into the right frame of mind! These 40 activities for transforming student
commitment, motivation and productivity', written by Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin,
offers a wealth of concrete, practical and applicable tools designed to
supercharge students’ resilience, positivity, organisation and determination.
We were
thrilled to see Lloyd
Markham's Bad Ideas/Chemicals (£8.99,
pb, 978 1912109685) published by Parthian
grab first place in the New Welsh review reader's poll for favourite EVER
dystopian novella beating Animal Farm,
Clockwork Orange, The Time Machine and Slaughterhouse 5!! Wow! That’s quite an accolade!
You can see all the shortlisted titles here
– they would make a great reading table or window display!
A well
organised bookshelf is a thing of great beauty no? Here
are eighteen beautiful bookshelves, submitted by the Buzzfeed community. Lots
of inspiration for your bookshops and homes!
Sad news that Les Murray,
celebrated Australian writer and Carcanet
poet, has passed away at the age of 80. Carcanet
have published Les
Murray for well over 30 years – you can find out more on their
website here and here's
a piece in the Guardian.
Talking of
suspense – has watching TV and film ever been more of a knife edge experience
as it is at present? Wondering who’s going to be killed off in Westeros, who H
is and how to reverse Thanos’s click has got many of us biting our nails big
time! If you are one of the hundred million who have seen it, then you will
enjoy this reveal of
the Top 10 Avengers: Endgame fan
theories that were completely and utterly WRONG!!!
Loving this great
display of The Polyglot
Lovers (£10, pb, 978 1911508441) by Lina Wolff,
translated by Saskia
Vogel at City Books in Hove who called it “a very funny & whip smart literary mystery from a fantastic writer
– highly recommended” Thanks guys! It’s just been published by And Other Stories.
Did you know
that according to figures from UK book sales monitor Nielsen (based on a survey
of 3,000 book buyers); 10.5 million works of children’s fiction were bought for
readers aged 17 or over in 2018, a 42% increase on 2015, when only 7.4 million
were purchased for these readers. Here's
a very interesting piece in the Observer, talking about why millennials are
the biggest adult consumers of children’s fiction.
A rare chance
this Bank Holiday Monday to hear two of Carcanet’s
pre-eminent international poets at the Poetry
Society Café in London; find out more here.
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, visiting from Australia, and
Sheri Benning,
visiting from Canada will read from their work, followed by a discussion on
place in poetry. Chris Wallace-Crabbe has
published more than twenty collections of poetry, including Rondo which
harvests a decade’s worth of new writing and is currently shortlisted for the 2019 Kenneth
Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier's Literature Awards. Sheri Benning’s
collection of poems The Season’s Vagrant Light: New and Selected Poems (£9.99, pb, 978 1784101060) marks her UK début and
draws on her strongly felt connection to her native landscape, rural
Saskatchewan.
It’s the start
of the new financial year, so a very good time to promote The Savvy Investor's Guide to Pooled
Investments: Mutual Funds, ETFs, and More (pb,
978 1789732160, £19.99) which has just been published by Emerald. This has a really zappy cover, is an excellent price and clearly
explain the options for creating an investment portfolio for those who may not
have huge amounts of money to invest, but want their options clearly and
sensibly explained by three experts.
Are you a rising
star, one of the industry’s up-and-comers? If so, or you know someone who is,
then why not nominate them for the annual Bookseller
award which salutes around forty such individuals a year from across the book
industry. To nominate a colleague, or yourself, send a testimonial outlining
their/your accomplishments to tom.tivnan@thebookseller.com
by 24th May. You can find out more about Rising Stars in
The
Bookseller.
With the announcement
yesterday that we all need to eat less meat to help beat climate change, there
is likely to be a rise in demand for vegan and veggie cookbooks. Four recipes from
Lorenz’s comprehensive, fully
illustrated and very practical Vegan Cookbook (£15,
hb, 978 0754834441) are currently featuring on the BBC Countryfile website and getting lots of clicks! If you fancy
making delicious rasberry
almond tart, mushroom
and pine nut muffins, country
lentil soup or green
tea and marmalade fruitcake this weekend, then you might want to give it a
look!
The Bookseller is looking for the 2019 Library of
the Year; the best library in Britain. School, prison, academic or
specialist libraries are all eligible and they want to celebrate places that
support and foster reading with energy and dedication and which are a vital
presence in their local communities. You can find out more in The Bookseller here
and applications should be sent via
email to emma.lowe@thebookseller.com
no later than 12pm on Friday 24th May.
We like to end
with music, and there’s been tons of publicity for the forthcoming Elton John biopic Rocketman,
you can see the trailer here
and the Sunday Times also had a
huge feature
last weekend. So, this is a good time to promote Captain Fantastic (978 1846974922, £9.99, pb); we all know how well Queen books have done on the back of Bohemian Rhapsody whose success the new
film is clearly hoping to emulate! Captain Fantastic is
available in a new paperback edition, with a terrific cover. Mojo magazine called it “a warm, insightful study, with Elton
emerging as flawed but loveable, brilliant but infuriating; a suburban pop
music fan who couldn't quite believe he became a bigger star than many of his
heroes”. It’s published next week by Polygon.
That’s all folks, more next
week!
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