The Egyptian Publishers Association has announced it is planning to organise a book fair by the end of November or early December at the Cairo International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Nasr City, Cairo.
The fair will feature Egyptian, Saudi, Emirati and Bahraini publishers in particular, as well as other international Arab publishers.
The event will see discounts of up to 70% on all books in a move to support publishers’ budgets in 2018.
HarperFiction UK and St Martin’s Press in the US have acquired the perfect debut for anyone who works in the publishing industry. Entitled Bad Words it is set in the world of publishing and follows the fall-out from a poisonous review. The synopsis says: “Parker Navarro’s debut was snapped up in a million-dollar deal […]
The story of the Dutch nursery workers who saved 600 Jewish children from the Nazis is little known outside the Netherlands. Now the UK’s Virago is hoping to bring it to a wider audience with Susan B Katz and Esther Shaya’s Angels of Amsterdam which Sarah Savitt, Virago publisher, acquired from Laura Mamelok, subsidary rights […]
There has been a mixed reaction to BBC Maestro’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agatha Christie which sees the world’s most famous crime novelist ‘teaching’ the tricks of her trade to would-be crime writers. Some have hailed it as wonderfully creative, others as “a bit Frankenstein”. According to the Bookseller, an actor, whose face and voice have […]
The story of the Dutch nursery workers who saved 600 Jewish children from the Nazis is little known outside the Netherlands. Now the UK’s Virago is hoping to bring it to a wider audience with Susan B Katz and Esther Shaya’s Angels of Amsterdam which Sarah Savitt,...
There has been a mixed reaction to BBC Maestro’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agatha Christie which sees the world’s most famous crime novelist ‘teaching’ the tricks of her trade to would-be crime writers. Some have hailed it as wonderfully creative, others as “a bit...
A significant project to rehabilitate the historic house of iconic Iraqi poet Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab in Basra was launched this month. The initiative aims to transform the residence in Jaykur, Abu Al-Khaseeb, into a literary museum dedicated to the pioneer of poetic...
