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Waterstones Book Of The Year
The Waterstones Book of the Year, established in 2012, is an annual award presented to a book published in the previous 12 months. Waterstones' booksellers nominate and vote to determine the winners and finalists for the prize. Award winners receive "full and committed backing" from Waterstones both in-person and online. Recipients See also * Waterstones Children's Book Prize The Waterstones Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is there ... * Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize References {{Reflist Awards established in 2012 English-language literary awards 2012 establishments in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterstones
Waterstones, formerly Waterstone's, is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. As of February 2014, it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. An average-sized Waterstones shop sells a range of approximately 30,000 individual books, as well as stationery and other related products. Established in 1982 by Tim Waterstone, after whom the company was named, the bookseller expanded rapidly until being sold in 1993 to WHSmith. In 1998, Waterstones was bought by a consortium of Waterstone, EMI and Advent International. The company was taken under the umbrella of HMV Group, which later merged the Dillons and Ottakar's brands into the company. Following several poor sets of results for the group, HMV put the chain up for sale. In May 2011, it was announced that A&NN Capital Fund Management, owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut, had bought the chain for £53.5m and appointed James Daunt as managing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls
''Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls'' is a series of two children's books, aimed at ages six and up. Both were funded through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, and broke site records for fundraising for literature publication. The books each feature short stories about 100 real women who can be role models to children. Writing and publication The first volume of ''Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls'' was written by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, and it was published in 2016. The first and second volumes of ''Goodnight Stories'' were crowdfunding, crowdfunded on Kickstarter, both breaking records on the website. The first volume was Kickstarter's "most funded children's book", raising over $675,000 (with an original goal of $40,000). The second volume was their "fastest-funded publishing project" ever. Each book in the series dedicates one page to the story of 100 women (all with illustrations by woman artists) who can be role models to children. The women come from di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diary Of A Young Naturalist
A diary is a writing, written or audiovisual record with discrete entries arranged by Calendar date, date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwriting, handwritten but are now also often digital media, digital. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, thoughts, and/or feelings, excluding comments on current events outside the writer's direct experience. Someone who keeps a diary is known as a list of diarists, diarist. Diaries undertaken for institutional purposes play a role in many aspects of human civilization, including government records (e.g. ''Hansard''), business ledgers, and military Service record, records. In British English, the word may also denote diary (stationery), a preprinted journal format. Today the term is generally employed for personal diaries, normally intended to remain private or to have a limited circulation amongst friends or relatives. The word "Journal (disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamnet (novel)
''Hamnet'' is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age 11 in 1596. In 2020, the book won the Women's Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The following year, it was named "Novel of the Year" at the Dalkey Literary Awards, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. In 2023, a stage adaptation of the novel by Lolita Chakrabarti will premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon re-opening the Swan Theatre since the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif .... Awards References 2020 British novels Novels set in England Novels set in the 16th century Novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference
''No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference'' is a book by climate activist Greta Thunberg. It was originally published on 30 May 2019. It consists of a collection of eleven speeches which she has written and presented about global warming and the climate crisis. History Greta Thunberg has presented the speeches in front of the United Nations, the European Union, the World Economic Forum and during demonstrations and protests. One of her most famous speeches which appears in the book is ''"Our House Is on Fire"''. The first edition was published on 30 May 2019. An expanded edition was published on 21 November 2019 with five new speeches. In November 2019, Thunberg was named author of the year by Waterstones for ''No One is Too Small to Make a Difference''. Speeches # ''Our Lives Are in Your Hands''(Climate March, Stockholm, 8 September 2018) # ''Almost Everything Is Black and White''(Declaration of Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion, Parliament Square, London, 31 October 2018) # ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanny (novel)
''Lanny'' is the second novel by Max Porter, published in March 2019. It is a missing-boy story, set in an English village within commuting distance of London. The book was described by Tim Smith-Laing in ''The Telegraph'' as being "between novella, long poem, and grief memoir", and by John Boyne in ''The Irish Times'' as "experimental fiction". It is named after the missing boy. ''Lanny'' is set to be adapted into a film, produced by The Bureau and BBC Film, starring Rachel Weisz. Awards *2019: Longlisted, Wainwright Prize *2019: Longlisted, Man Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. ... *2019: Shortlisted, Gordon Burn Prize References English novels 2019 British novels Faber & Faber books {{2010s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underland (book)
''Underland: A Deep Time Journey'' is a book by Robert Macfarlane and the sequel to '' The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot''. Initially published in English on 2 May 2019 by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and on 4 June 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company in the US, the book has been translated into over a dozen languages. An audiobook, read by Matthew Waterson, was also released in June 2019 by HighBridge Audio. The book has received many awards and honours. It was a '' Sunday Times'', ''New York Times'', and ''Los Angeles Times'' Bestseller, it is a 2020 American Library Association Notable Book, and has won The 2019 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, The 2019 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing, and was named the 2020 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. The book has been placed on many lists for best books of 2019 and was named as number 56 of the "100 best books of the 21st century" by ''The Guardian'' in Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queenie (novel)
''Queenie'' is a New adult fiction, new adult novel written by British author Candice Carty-Williams and published by an imprint of Trapeze published by Orion Publishing Group, Orion in 2019. The novel is about the life and loves of Queenie Jenkins, a vibrant, troubled 25-year-old British-Jamaican woman who is not having a very good year. Background In 2017 ''Queenie'' was the subject of an auction between four publishers and was eventually acquired for a six-figure sum by Orion. Although it was marketed as "a black Bridget Jones", Carty-Williams herself said in an interview in ''Stylist (magazine), Stylist'' magazine: "That's how I thought of her in the beginning, too. But this book is also naturally political just because of who Queenie is. She's not Bridget Jones. She could never be." Speaking on CBS Local, Carty-Williams further explained: "It's such a personal story, but it is one that is universal as well....It's not autobiographical, but it’s themes that I've borrowed from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circe (novel)
''Circe'' is a 2018 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is an adaptation of various Greek myths, most notably the ''Odyssey'', as told from the perspective of the witch Circe. The novel explores Circe's origin story and narrates Circe's encounters with mythological figures such as Hermes, the Minotaur, Jason, and Medea, and ultimately her romance with Odysseus and his son, Telemachus. Plot Circe is the divine daughter of the titan Helios and naiad Perse. Deemed unattractive and powerless from birth, Circe's early life is lonely until she falls in love with the mortal fisherman Glaucos. Devastated by his mortality, Circe discovers a way to make him a god: she transforms him into his 'true form' using the sap of magical flowers, grown in soil that was once soaked with the blood of the titan Kronos. Arrogant in his divinity, however, Glaucos rejects Circe in favor of the nymph Scylla. Circe's jealousy causes her to use the flowers' magic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything I Know About Love
''Everything I Know About Love'' is a 2018 memoir by the British journalist Dolly Alderton, in which the author recounts the adventures of a woman navigating her 20s. Reception The book earned a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ... and was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards, and adapted into a BBC/ Peacock eponymous television drama series. The book has been translated into 20 languages including Polish and Russian. At Goodreads, the book has an average rating of 4.11 (out of 5) based on 129,353 ratings. References External links * {{cite news , last1=Burchill , first1=Julie , authorlink1=Julie Burchill , title=Everything I Know About Love is a shockingly in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Amaral
Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian artist known for her colorizations of historical black and white photographs. Work A self-taught artist, she was an international relations student in college, but dropped out in April 2015 to pursue art full-time. Amaral's creative process involves adding color to black and white photographs using Photoshop, following careful historical research to determine the colors of each object pictured. Amaral describes what she does as providing a "second perspective" as the pictures with color convey images that do not seem too far removed from the contemporaneous viewer. Her process of colorizing a photo can take as little as an hour or more than a month to complete. Each colorized photo may include hundreds of layers. In 2017, Amaral was the illustrator for historian Dan Jones' book, ''The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850–1960''. In 2018 Amaral colorized twenty archival photos of Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
