This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Dinaw Mengestu and Rainbow Rowell, while Jay Ellis and Drew Afualo publish new nonfiction works. Also out this week is Alison Espach’s THE WEDDING PEOPLE, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 21 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-30 5 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-30 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out July‘s 142 fiction releases, 39 works of nonfiction, and 20 children’s […]
Pearson Expects Higher Ed Growth in the Second Half of the Year
Pearson released their interim financial report for the first half of the year, reporting sales of £1.75 billion ($2.21 billion), down 7 percent from £1.88 billion in the same period last year. Operating profit was flat at £219 million. In Higher Education, sales were £358 million, down 6 percent, with an operating loss of £(1) million. The company said these results are “in line with our phasing guidance,” and due to “currency movements and portfolio changes.” They expect to return to growth in the segment in the second half of the year. Assessments and Qualifications sales were up 2 percent […]
Obituary: Edna O’Brien
Irish author Edna O’Brien, 93, died on July 27 “after a long illness,” according to her publisher. Her work, which was often autobiographical, contained honest depictions of women and lost love. She published her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960, and it was banned in Ireland. She won the Irish PEN lifetime achievement award in 2001 and the PEN/Nabokov award for achievement in international literature in 2018.
Knopf Lists Barry Diller Book
Metadata for a forthcoming Barry Diller memoir, WHO KNEW, appeared online recently, set for an April 1, 2025 publication date from Knopf. That metadata was subsequently adjusted to an untitled arts and entertainment biography/memoir — though remnants remain online and have not been updated yet. (Just search the ISBN.) The fullest description is on this listing at Coles Books in the UK, promising an “intimate, stunning, and extraordinary memoir. In what is sure to be one of the most fascinating and talked-about memoirs of the year, Barry Diller holds nothing back.” It covers “his struggles with his homosexuality; his relationship […]
People 7/29
Ashley Herzig has joined Simon & Schuster as a national account manager for Amazon. Herzig was previously at Macmillan.