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Publishing
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Written by Nicholas Clee
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Larry Ashmead, one of the most convivial and popular of New York editors, has died at the age of 78. Ashmead retired from HarperCollins in 2003, following a career during which he had edited more than 40 books by Isaac Asimov, as well as working with authors including Susan Isaacs and Simon Winchester. Many of his colleagues in the book trade were delighted recipients of his End of the Year Funnies - a collection of hilarious and bizarre clippings from the publishing world and elsewhere. In 2007, Profile published his Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People. |
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Prizes
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Written by Nicholas Clee
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Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd, Chris Wormell, and Levi Pinfold were the winners at the Early Years Awards 2010, held yesterday evening (2 September) at BAFTA in London.
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Libraries
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Written by Ingrid Hopson
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Ingrid Hopson, SLA School Librarian of the Year 2007 and a member of the judging panel for this year's award, explains why schools need librarians and what the judges were looking for when they selected this year’s Honour List (BookBrunch story)
You ask: what do school librarians do?
I answer: we help our pupils become better learners.
Libraries exist not as collections of resources but as places that foster creativity and independent thought. We cannot know what the world will be like for our pupils when they reach adulthood, but we can prepare them for their future.
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Books
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Among
the Books & Media highlights for the coming week:
TV tie-in of the week (4 – 10 September) is the new TV adaptation of Andrea Newman’s controversial 1976 novel Bouquet of Barbed Wire (ITV1, Monday, 9pm). Originally published by Penguin, Serpent’s Tail has the 2010 tie-in.
With a new series of Mad Men starting on Wednesday on BBC4, the ideal companion is The Kings of Madison Avenue (ECW Press), which has detailed episode guides and cast biographies.
Radio tie-in of the week is Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, featured in Bookclub (Radio 4, Sunday & Thursday, 4pm) when James Naughtie and readers talk to the Canadian author about his novel which won the 2002 Man Booker prize and went on to be a global publishing phenomenon. Radio 4’s Book of the Week is Donald Sturrock's biography of Roald Dahl, Storyteller.
The film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go has an October release date, and on the social networks, the Man Booker longlisted C by Tom McCarthy is the most talked about new book.
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