South African Book Fair, South Africa
6 – 8 September
As the world’s elite tennis players gather in Wimbledon for this year’s championships, Cassell – part of the Hachette group – has announced the acquisition of Being Carlos Alcaraz by tennis journalist Mark Hodgkinson. Garbiñe Muguruza, a former women’s singles world number one from Spain, has written the foreword. Trevor Davies acquired world English language […]
Irish author Donal Ryan has won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for his novel Heart, Be at Peace. Ryan, from Nenagh, Co Tipperary, described winning the award as “a great honour and very unexpected”. “I was kind of getting past my imposter syndrome but it’s come charging right back up now,” he said. ”I’m […]
Events coincide with Rio de Janeiro as 2025 UNESCO World Book Capital Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – June **, 2025: PublisHer, the global movement championing women’s leadership in publishing, has led an emphatic double programme in Rio de Janeiro, hosting the PublisHer Summit and featuring at Bienal do Livro, Latin America’s largest literary festival. […]
Irish author Donal Ryan has won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for his novel Heart, Be at Peace. Ryan, from Nenagh, Co Tipperary, described winning the award as “a great honour and very unexpected”. "I was kind of getting past my imposter syndrome but it’s...
Events coincide with Rio de Janeiro as 2025 UNESCO World Book Capital Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – June **, 2025: PublisHer, the global movement championing women’s leadership in publishing, has led an emphatic double programme in Rio de Janeiro, hosting the PublisHer...
George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on the island of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides, he went on a fishing trip with his young son, nephew and niece. Having misread the tidal...
