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“Romance queen Emily Henry takes home her fourth consecutive GCA with ‘Funny Story,’ an instructive modern parable about a heartbroken librarian who attempts an extremely tricky maneuver: hooking up with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex.
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 “Survivor,” Shallow shows readers what it took to build herself into the ultimate survivor—for better, and more often, for worse.
About the book: “Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon” explores how the once-dominant lingerie brand’s over-reliance on a narrow, sexually charged image and failure to adapt to changing cultural and consumer values led to its decline.
People on BookTok — the book nerds of TikTok — are slamming publishers for re-releasing Maguire’s 1995 novel with a cover image using the movie poster with Grande and Erivo, who play Glinda and Elphaba, respectively.
Midas PR has today announced that it has renewed its partnership with Women’s Prize Trust on a pro-bono basis for the next two years.
It was incredibly difficult to whittle down the submissions to the final shortlist of nominees but I hope that in doing so, we have managed to showcase the breadth of themes, genres and artistic styles readers can experience in graphic novel format.
Also up for the prize are Ed Conway for Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future (WH Allen); The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell (Viking); Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin (Grove Press UK) and Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo (Profile Books/Wellcome Collection).