Giles Spackman will join Oxford University Press next month as group finance director. Previously he was senior finance director, global business organization, at Google. At Other Press, Robert Wicks has been promoted to publicist and Charlotte Kelly moves up to associate publicist. Dylan Hillhouse has joined HarperCollins Christian as vp, marketing for the Bible Group. Previously he worked at Mardel Christian Stores, responsible for oversight of the company’s Bible merchandising program. Author of the Arkady Renko novels Martin Cruz Smith revealed to the NYT that he has been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for the past 18 years, and that his […]
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Indigo’s Best of 2013
Though we missed it initially (as did, apparently, most everyone else) Canada’s dominant bookseller Indigo named their top 13 books of 2013 last week: Benediction, Kent Haruf The Orenda, Joseph Boyden The Son, Philipp Meyer The Spark: A Mother’s Story Of Nurturing Genius, Kristine Barnett An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth, Chris Hadfield I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt Thank You For Your Service, David Finkel Five Days At Memorial, Sheri Fink The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion The Reason I Jump, Naoki Higashida The Dinner, Herman Koch
Donna Tartt’s THE GOLDFINCH Tops Amazon’s Best Books of the Year
Amazon announces its Best Books of 2013 lists, featuring lists in 20 different categories. Donna Tartt’s THE GOLDFINCH tops their 20 overall Editor’s Picks, which also feature, in order: Khaled Hosseini, AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED David Finkel, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE Kate Atkinson, LIFE AFTER LIFE Tom Kizzia, PILGRIM’S WILDERNESS Scott Anderson, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA George Saunders, TENTH OF DECEMBER Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett, A HOUSE IN THE SKY Rainbow Rowell, ELEANOR AND PARK Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future? Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Anne McLean, The Sound of Things Falling Helene Wecker, The Golem and […]
People, Etc.
Laura Ferguson will join Open Road Media later this month as vp, special markets. Previously, she was director of premium, corporate and customer driven publishing at Simon & Schuster. Emily Keyes has joined Foreword Literary as an agent. Previously she was an agent at the L. Perkins Agency. French spy novelist Gerard de Villiers, 83, died Thursday in Paris of pancreatic cancer. De Villiers was the author of 200 novels featuring CIA contractor Malko Linge, the first appearing in 1964 and the last published in France last month. Five of his novels will be published by Vintage beginning in 2014, […]
Picks: PW’s Top 10, and Amazon’s November Favorites
As usual, PW goes early with their “Best Books of 2013,” a list with a number of unexpected picks (and including two of our “Buzz Books”*): Sea of Hooks, Lindsay Hill (McPherson & Co.) Going Clear, Lawrence Wright (Knopf) Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, Jeremy Scahill (Nation) Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury) *The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday) Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, Robert Kolker (Harper) Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, Carla Kaplan (Harper) *A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra (Random/Hogarth) The Silence and the Roar, Nihad […]
NYT’s Best Illustrated Books of 2013
The season of picks begins as the New York Times Book Review names their selections for 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books for 2013: My Brother’s Book, by Maurice Sendak Ballad, written and illustrated by Blexbolex, translated by Claudia Z. Bedrick Jemmy Button, by Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali The Dark, written by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen Holland, by Charlotte Dematons Journey, by Aaron Becker Fog Island, by Tomi Ungerer Jane, The Fox and Me, written by Fanny Britt, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou Locomotive, by Brian Floca Nelson Mandela, by Kadir Nelson