The metadata posted last month made Uwem Akpan’s SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM the odds-on favorite as Oprah Winfrey’s new book club selection (a Little, Brown book, available in 14.99 paperback and 23.99 hardcover editions). The Washington Post confirmed it yesterday, saying that additional information was accidentally leaked. The first version of the story named Ingram as the leaker; the version in today’s paper simply blames a “book distribution company.” Oprah Winfrey Show spokesperson Angela DePaul told the Post, “We don’t comment on advance speculation. Oprah announces her book club selections on her show and shares her reasons for choosing […]
Awards
Shortlists and More
The FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year shortlist was announced, comprising: Lords of Finance, by Liaquat AhamedGood Value, by Stephen GreenImagining India, by Nandan NilekaniThe Match King, by Frank PartnoyAnimal Spirits, by George Akerlof and Robert ShillerIn Fed We Trust, by David Wessel The winner will be named October 29. And the Center for Fiction (formerly the Mercantile Center) announced the shortlist for their first novel prize (formerly the John Sargent Sr. prize): American Rust, by Philipp MeyerThe Cradle, by Patrick SomervilleTinkers, by Paul HardingThe Vagrants, by Yiyun LinWoodsburner, by John Pipkin Also, nature-reference publisher Waterford Press will move […]
More On Booker
Adam Foulds’ THE QUICKENING MAZE, the one Booker nominee that had not been licensed for publication elsewhere in the English-speaking world (with only one territory, Holland, reported as sold so far), was quickly licensed to Michael Schellenberg at Knopf Canada yesterday, by Zoe Pagnamenta, in conjunction with Anna Webber at United Agents. Our declaration yesterday that either Random UK or Little Brown UK would be the Booker-winning publisher was just an oversight rather than our characteristically dry commentary on how the betting favorite fares. (Harper UK published nominee Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall through Fourth Estate, as we did note.) But […]
Booker Shortlist Announced
The six finalists for the prize–with the winner to be named October 6–are: A S Byatt, The Children’s Book (Chatto and Windus)J M Coetzee, Summertime (Harvill Secker)Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze (Jonathan Cape)Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate)Simon Mawer, The Glass Room (Little Brown UK)Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (Virago) Release
October 2009 Indie Next List
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette WallsHer Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Children’s Book: A Novel by A.S. ByattGoing Away Shoes: Stories by Jill McCorkleJuliet, Naked: A Novel by Nick HornbyThe Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover BartlettStardust: A Novel by Joseph KanonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot by Craig FergusonStitches: A Memoir by David SmallThe Brutal Telling: An Armand Gamache Novel by Louise PennyA Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel by R.J. ElloryGenerosity: An […]
People: Munro Leaves Giller to Others
Recent Man Booker International Prize winner and two-time Giller winner Alice Munro, 78, has withdrawn her just-released story collection TOO MUCH HAPPINESS from consideration for the 2009 Giller prize. Publisher Douglas Gibson says: “Her reason is that she has won twice and would like to leave the field to younger writers. In my role as greedy publisher I pointed out that the Giller Prize produces so much publicity, that even to be nominated for it is tremendous publicity. But her mind is made up on this. Alice preferred to withdraw from the competition.”Globe and Mail