Penguin Random House is leaving unlimited-access reading services

Posted on 01/22/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Penguin Random House will be removing all of its digital and audio titles from unlimited-access subscription services. PRH ebooks in...

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Tagged As: Audiobook, E-reader, Reading, The Bookseller, The Digital Reader

Watch the trailer for the TV adaptation of "Normal People" by Sally Rooney

Posted on 01/17/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Speaking of those literary adaptations coming in 2020 — the trailer for Sally Rooney’s Normal People has been released. The...

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Tagged As: Pop culture, The Bookseller, TV adaptation

Charles Sprawson, author of cult classic on swimming, has died

Posted on 01/09/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The author of perhaps the most influential book on swimming ever has died. A friend confirmed yesterday that Charles Sprawson,...

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Tagged As: Nonfiction, Obituary, The Bookseller, The Guardian

Lee Child is revealed as one of the 2020 Booker Prize judges

Posted on 01/07/2020 at 02:23 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Speculation last year that Lee Child could serve as a Booker Prize judge has been proven accurate. Child, author of...

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Tagged As: Awards, The Bookseller

William Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage will reopen in April

Posted on 01/02/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Any literary trips to England on your planner? If so, we hope they’re after April 7. That’s when William Wordsworth’s...

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Tagged As: Literary tourism, Poetry, The Bookseller

Michael Fassbender to produce "Night Boat to Tangier" movie

Posted on 12/18/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kevin Barry will help adapt his novel Night Boat to Tangier for the big screen along with actor Michael Fassbender,...

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Tagged As: Movie adaptation, The Bookseller

Emma Watson hides copies of "Little Women" around London

Posted on 12/17/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you’re out and about, don’t look down at your phone — keep your eyes peeled for copies of Little...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Movie adaptation, Pop culture, The Bookseller

What inspired Alex Michaelides’s "The Silent Patient"?

Posted on 12/06/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Alex Michaelides’s The Silent Patient has spent more than a little time on the New York Times bestseller list. And...

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Tagged As: Author interview, The Bookseller, Thriller

ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus helps bring Pippi Longstocking musical to life

Posted on 11/18/2019 at 03:52 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A member of ABBA will serve as executive producer of a Pippi Longstocking “musical circus show,” reports the Bookseller. “Pippi...

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Tagged As: Children's literature, Pop culture, The Bookseller

Edward Snowden: Chinese regime has censored my memoir

Posted on 11/13/2019 at 03:59 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who helped reveal the NSA’s surveillance programs, says his memoir is being censored in...

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Tagged As: Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics, The Bookseller