Erika Johansen’s The Queen of the Tearling is the No. 1 pick on the July Indie Next list. The rest of the recommended titles are listed below. As always, click through for the full bookseller comments. Landline, by Rainbow Rowell One Plus One, by Jojo Moyes That Night, by Chevy Stevens Last Night at the Blue Angel, by Rebecca Rotert The Quick, by Lauren Owen Flying Shoes, by Lisa Howorth The Appetites of Girls, by Pamela Moses Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, by Chris Bohjalian The Glass Kitchen, by Linda Francis Lee Dry Bones in the Valley, by Tom Bouman Dollbaby, […]
Awards
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Eimear McBride won the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING, published by Galley Beggar Press in the UK and by Coffee House Press in the US in September. Prize chair Helen Fraser called the novel “an amazing and ambitious first novel that impressed the judges with its inventiveness and energy. This is an extraordinary new voice – this novel will move and astonish the reader.” Carl Bromley will join The New Press as editorial director. Previously he was editorial director at Nation Books. In addition, Marc Favreau has been promoted to executive editor. […]
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Camille McDuffie is leaving her position as president of Goldberg McDuffie Communications to join the newly-created Columbia Global Reports as publisher, under director Nicholas Lemann. It’s a Columbia University-based publishing project “dedicated to the production of sustained, original reporting and analysis on under-reported global issues for audiences that extend beyond the academy,” and they will produce four to six short books a year, for publication beginning in fall 2015. Also joining the unit as editor is Jimmy So, who was a culture and books editor at The Daily Beast. At William Morrow, Jessica Williams has been promoted to editor. Heather Alexander […]
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Former Atlantic Books editor-in-chief Ravi Mirchandani will join Pan Macmillan’s Picador as associate publisher on September 1, reporting to publisher Paul Baggaley. Founder and president of 800-CEO-READ Jack Covert retired on May 30, thirty years after he started the business books company. In a note on his blog last week Seth Godin remarked: “Jack Covert is one of the most important people in my little village of book publishing, a single individual outside the normal circles of New York, someone who cares and does something about it. Jack Covert relentlessly sees possibility when other people are ready to shrug their shoulders […]
Picks and Awards
Pennie’s pick for June at Costco is Daniel James Brown‘s THE BOYS IN THE BOAT: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In addition to books by Lily King, Courtney Maum, Megan Abbott and Tom Rob Smith, Amazon’s best books of June list also includes: The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henríquez Good Hunting, Jack Devine, Vernon Loeb Take This Man, Brando Skyhorse My Salinger Year, Joanna Rakoff The Vacationers, Emma Straub I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes Animal Madness, Laurel Braitman The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners were named at BEA. They are: Picture Book: Mr. Tiger […]
Amazon Recommends Two Hachette Books They Aren’t Selling
Lily King’s EUPHORIA — one of our Publishers Lunch Spring/Summer Buzz Books — tops Amazon’s best books of June list as their Spotlight pick, along with Courtney Maum’s I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITHOUT YOU as the Featured Debut. More curious, however, is that two of the titles the bookseller’s “editors have hand picked as this month’s best” are not actually available for sale on the site: Megan Abbott’s THE FEVER (Little, Brown) and Tom Rob Smith’s THE FARM (Grand Central) are “currently unavailable” as part of Amazon’s standoff with Hachette Book Group.