Simon & Schuster likes to officially announce their Walter Isaacson books at the London Book Fair. Acquired some time ago, and already previewed online by the author, they will publish Isaacson’s THE INNOVATORS: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, in world English on October 7. The book “focuses on the dozen or so most significant breakthroughs and the people who made them: the computer, programming, the transistor, the microchip, video games, the internet, the personal computer, software, the web. The book opens with Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer algorithm, and continues […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Wimpy Kid 9, Cuomo, and More
In advance of the Bologna Book Fair, Abrams’ Amulet Books imprint announced a November 4 US publication date for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 9. International editions in 83 countries will follow shortly thereafter. As usual, the cover and most of the content will be revealed later; for now, Kinney says, “I’m taking the Heffleys out of their home environment and sending them out on the road. Writing about an epic family road trip has really got my creative juices flowing.” The most recent release, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, has sold more than 3.2 million copies, the publisher […]
Forthcoming: Tolkien’s Beowulf, 88 Years Later; Grove/Atlantic Picks up @GSElevator
HarperCollins UK and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will release JRR Tolkien‘s translation of BEOWULF on May 22. The manuscript, long available in the archives of the Bodleian Library but never published, was first finished in 1926 “before he became professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford” according to his son Christopher, who edited the 2,000-page work for publication. “[JRR Tolkien] returned to it only for hasty and cursory correction in later years, yet much light would be shed on this translation in his University lectures that were expressly devoted to the text, and from them a commentary has been devised for this book,” […]
Forthcoming: Books from Rice, Nicholls, and Maybe Lohan
Anne Rice said on a podcast co-hosted by her son Christopher that her new novel, PRINCE LESTAT: The Vampire Chronicles, will be published October 28. Reportedly, the title will be available for pre-order March 16. Author of ONE DAY David Nicholls will release a new novel, US, on “the bond of marriage and the demands of parenthood,” on September 30 in the UK, again from Hodder & Stoughton. It’s his first novel since the breakout ONE DAY (the success of which was spurred by the Random House Films movie version). In turn, producer of the ONE DAY movie Nina Jacobson […]
Hilary Clinton to Keynote AAP Meeting
With former secretary of state Hillary Clinton‘s new memoir set for publication on June 1, she will appear at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting on March 19 in New York. AAP ceo Tom Allen says, “Hillary Clinton’s unprecedented public service has been marked by tireless commitment to improving learning, quality of life and opportunities for people worldwide. These are priorities shared by our member publishers and reflected in the high-quality works they produce. We are proud to have her address our community at our signature annual event.”
Yes, Geithner’s Book Really Is STRESS TEST
Last August Crown inadvertently fed catalog data to Edelweiss indicating that former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s forthcoming book would be titled STRESS TEST, and was set for May 6, 2014 publication. Crown quickly indicated that was an error, calling the information “an internal working title and placeholder publication date.” So today they made the same title official: STRESS TEST: Reflections on Financial Crises, by Timothy F. Geithner will go on sale May 13. The jacket is viewable at a new web site, along with a five-paragraph statement from the author on the home page: “Two administrations—one Republican, one Democratic, with […]