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In this week's issue: University Presses: Interview with Oxford Languages president Casper Grathwohl leads our 2024 focus Author Profile: Garrett Carr talks his adult fiction début, The Boy from the Sea New Titles: Paperback Previews: February 2025 Bestsellers:Orbital shoots straight to the top of the charts after Booker win
In this week's issue: University Presses: Interview with Oxford Languages president Casper Grathwohl leads our 2024 focus Author Profile: Garrett Carr talks his adult fiction début, The Boy from the Sea New Titles: Paperback Previews: February 2025 Bestsellers:Orbital shoots straight to the top of the charts after Booker win
He was previously group sales and marketing director at HarperCollins, held board positions at Waterstones and HMV, was chair of New Writing North and a trustee of BookTrust, as well as being a published author.
She will take up the role in the new year, based at Hachette UKâs headquarters in Carmelite House, and will report to Maura Wilding, group communications director.
It includes abookmark raffle, with entrantswinning a signed book and an original bookmarkhand-drawn by this yearâsauthors, whichinclude Stephen Fry, Kate Mosse, Tracy Chevalier and 26 others.
Nov 04 2024: After a favorable legal ruling in August, freedom to read advocates in Alaska have scored a significant victory in court over would-be book banners.
Oct 21 2024: Anti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlersâ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.
The Timesâ Patrick Kidd noted that Smith âputs up a diligent attempt to correct the record, and no one can deny after reading it that the life of a woman in ancient Rome, even a very wealthy and well-connected one, was based on control by men and was often very dangerousâ.
Equally disappointing â but in line with its origins in Rawlsâ ideas â Lefebvre at no point asks liberals to reflect on the legitimacy of the repressive powers of the state, the police, national borders or the prison system.
The festivalâs bookseller Waterstones reported a 92% increase in growth in book sales at the series of events which concluded on Sunday 27th October and took place at Merton Arts Space at Wimbledon Library.
Other writers featured in the book include the published crime author Morgan Cry, as well as Gayle Thompson, Louise Sharland, Ewan A Dougall, Ben Colley, Julian Benson, Shona MacBryer, Anna Wallace, Bryce Main and B V Lawson.
Smith gives a horrifying vision of a future world of work in which unprotected or unwanted children are forced to scavenge metal from waste in dangerous conditions and adult workers are ruthlessly surveilled, punished, fined and controlled.