Not only does Angela test and compare the streaming services she writes about to ensure readers are getting the best prices, but sheâs also a superfan specializing in the intersection of shopping, tech, sports, and pop culture.
She is taking on the role of publishing director at large, picture books which means that we donât lose her matchless skills, experience and enthusiasm, while we enable her to work less and to step back from people and list management.
Catherine Bell, MD at Scholastic UK, said: âFifteen years since Zog bang-crash-thump landed into our hearts, we are very happy to see Julia and Axelâs dragon soar further with exciting animation and licensing news.
She added: âWe urge the Government not to risk the livelihoods of our world-leading creative industries, but to find ways of harnessing the power of AI with the rights of creators, safety and sustainability firmly in mind.
A new AI-driven tool to "automate a number of editorial quality checks" has been developed by Springer Nature to alert editors to "potentially unsuitable manuscripts" so that they can be held back from peer review.
At the same time as Gladys Bentley was enthralling New York City in her tuxedo, paired with the essential accoutrements of top hat, cane and stiff shirt collar, lesbians in interwar Paris were exploring other âmasculineâ looks.
By joining Two Sides, Formara has access to a library of co-brandable communications tools, consumer research, industry-leading information, sustainability advice and events.
In a sign of things to come in January, Pinch of Nom: All in One by Kay and Kate Allinson (Bluebird) and Bored of Lunch Six Ingredients Slow Cooker by Nathan Anthony (Ebury Press) are both starting to rise up the NFHB chart while Tim Spectorâs Food for Life Cookbook (Jonathan Cape) both return to the top 20.
His criticism, plays, biographies, memoirs and television scripts stand alongside celebrated novels like The British Museum is Falling Down, the Booker-shortlisted Small World and Nice Work, Therapy, Deaf Sentence and A Man of Parts, and show the range of a writer who was fascinated by everything the written word could achieve.â
And it makes me even more determined to keep telling stories that draw attention to the persecution and oppression endured by queer people in the past and contrast this with how much better things are in the present, in order to celebrate the progress weâve made as a society.
âRomance queen Emily Henry takes home her fourth consecutive GCA with âFunny Story,â an instructive modern parable about a heartbroken librarian who attempts an extremely tricky maneuver: hooking up with her ex-fiancĂ©âs new fiancĂ©eâs ex.
My Life in France (2005), co-written with journalist Alex Prudâhomme, tells the story of âa crucial period of transformationâ in which she found her âtrue callingâ and started writing Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle.
From her childhood growing up in a Florida commune run by a tyrannical female guru, to her journey out of the South and inside the L.A. casting rooms that would eventually drop her into the lush but brutal landscapes of âSurvivor,â Shallow shows readers what it took to build herself into the ultimate survivorâfor better, and more often, for worse.
He watched his dad work, learning how to blow the horn correctly (so it always created the same distinctive tone), and in some cases, greeting visitors like King Gustaf VI Adolf, who âcouldnât believe that a night watchman still existed somewhere within his country,â Stein writes.
Danzy Senna (Riverhead Books), $29 The âCaucasiaâ authorâs darkly comic tale about a struggling biracial novelist on the brink of making it in Hollywood â while she and her young family housesit for an old classmate who is already a top TV writer â is a quick but thought-provoking read.
Now run by The Bookseller, previous winners have included Michelle Obama, Salman Rushdie, Davina McCall, Marcus Rashford, Marian Keyes, GT Karber and Sally Rooney.
About the book: âSelling Sexy: Victoriaâs Secret and the Unraveling of an American Iconâ explores how the once-dominant lingerie brandâs over-reliance on a narrow, sexually charged image and failure to adapt to changing cultural and consumer values led to its decline.
