Aug 06 2019: Toni Morrison, the 1993 Nobel laureate in literature, whose acclaimed, best-selling work explored black identity in America and in particular the experience of black women, died on Monday in the Bronx. She was 88.
Her death, at Montefiore Medical Center, was ...
Aug 02 2019: President Trump announced yesterday afternoon that he is prepared to impose 10% tariffs on $300 billion worth of goods imported from China in retaliation for what he views as China’s failure to follow through on promises to buy more agricultural products from the U.S. ...
Jul 30 2019: The author of a bestselling Christian guide to relationships for young people has announced that his marriage is over and he has lost his faith.
Joshua Harris, whose biblical guide to relationships I Kissed Dating Goodbye sold nearly 1m copies around the world after ...
Jul 26 2019: Colin A. Palmer, a historian who broadened the understanding of the African diaspora, showing that the American slave trade was only one part of a phenomenon that spanned centuries and influenced cultures worldwide, died on June 20 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 75.
Jul 25 2019: More than a year after imposing a controversial four month "test" embargo on new release e-books in libraries from its Tor imprint, Macmillan announced today that it will now impose a two month embargo on library e-books across all of the company's imprints.
Under ...
Jul 24 2019: Margaret Atwood is longlisted for this year's £50,000 Booker Prize for The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, despite the book being embargoed ahead of its Sept 10 on sale date. The judges said: "Spoiler discretion and a ferocious non-disclosure agreement ...
Jul 22 2019: Horror and thriller author Dean Koontz has signed a five-book deal with Amazon Publishing imprint Thomas & Mercer...
... “Although there were numerous options for the future, it was most natural to sign with the team at Amazon Publishing, which presented a marketing ...
Jul 18 2019: One of Italy’s most popular authors and creator of the Inspector Montalbano series, Andrea Camilleri has died at the age of 93.
Camilleri, who was born in Sicily in 1925, was taken to hospital in Rome in June after going into cardiac arrest.
The author had written a ...
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