Search Results by tag: the Guardian

Ghost stories

The Guardian site has a survey of the long tradition of ghostwriting, pegged to a recent book deal for footballer Wayne Rooney, who has signed a five-book deal (!) with HarperCollins in the U.K. Hunter ... Read More »

March 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Da Vinci Code on trial — again

By Scott MacDonald

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown took to the stand yesterday as the star defence witness in a copyright infringement lawsuit being launched against his publisher, Random House. The claimants this time around are Richard ... Read More »

March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Fairytales of New York

By Leigh Anne Williams

The CBC Arts website has a strong profile of Jay McInerney, whose post-9/11 novel, The Good Life, has been getting much press. The piece is notable for its discussion of the changing character of New ... Read More »

February 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Whitbread could be toast

By Scott MacDonald

Big news on the book-award front: sponsorship of the Whitbread Awards, the second-most prestigious book awards in Britain after the Man Booker, is up for grabs. A sponsor for the honours since their inception in ... Read More »

December 14, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

TO bookstore goes world-class

By Leigh Anne Williams

Author Jeremy Mercer, who's written a book called about his stint living in the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Co., has put together a list of his favourite bookstores from around the world for The Guardian.Coming ... Read More »

December 8, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

NaNoWriMo primes young hands for arthritis

By Scott MacDonald

Some will sweat it out, some will write it off, but for those who just need deadlines to write, the seventh annual National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, kicks off today. The event's name is ... Read More »

November 1, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Banville beats Booker odds

By Scott MacDonald

Last night, in a ceremony in London's Guildhall, Irish novelist John Banville beat seven-to-one odds and brought home his first Man Booker Prize for a melancholy study on old age, love, and grief, The Sea. ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Authors Guild sues Google for copyright infringement

By Scott MacDonald

Representing more than 8,000 writers from across the United States, the Authors Guild is suing Google for "massive copyright infringement," claiming damages and "demanding the search engine stop uploading the contents of library books," James ... Read More »

September 21, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Booker shortlist announced

By Scott MacDonald

In a year that saw landmark books written by the big names of British fiction -- Rushdie, Barnes, Coetzee, McEwan, and Ali and Zadie Smith to name a few -- the big question preceding this ... Read More »

September 9, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

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Search Results by tag: the Guardian

Ghost stories

Da Vinci Code on trial — again

Fairytales of New York

Whitbread could be toast

TO bookstore goes world-class

NaNoWriMo primes young hands for arthritis

Banville beats Booker odds

Authors Guild sues Google for copyright infringement

Booker shortlist announced

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