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Written by Nicholas Clee
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Monday, 12 July 2010 09:25 |
Soho pub The Blue Posts was the venue for the launch of The Phantom of the Open: Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer (Yellow Jersey) by actor Simon Farnaby (left) and Guardian journalist Scott Murray (r). Among the actors, comedians and journalists at the party were David Mitchell (the comedian, not the novelist), Nathan Barley actors Nicholas Burns and Claire Keelan, Dan Davies of Esquire, and author Tom Cox. Flitcroft, who had never played a round of golf, entered the British Open in 1976, and ran up a score of 121. |
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Written by Liz Thomson
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Saturday, 15 May 2010 23:12 |
The London Book Fair has launched a networking service that is available to all those who signed up to attend last month's Fair.
Connect@The London Book Fair allows users to search and send messages to exhibitors and visitors from LBF 2010. "Your Profile" is preloaded with the information provided at the time of registration and can be updated at any time. Messages can be received via the Connect inbox, and a favourites system allows visitors to keep the pages, exhibitors, podcasts and authors that interest them in their own personalised list of content.
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:57 |
Karabo Kgoleng, presenter of SAfm’s Sunday Literature show, reflects on the issues with which she believes South African publishers must engage
 South Africa defies definition, possibly by virtue of the fact that South Africa is a geographic location before it is a country. A territory to which a myriad of nations and peoples has laid claim, South Africa continues to be a contested territory, a fact reflected in the way in which the world attempts to define it - socially, economically, politically, culturally.
It remains a highly racialised society, as evidenced by the fact that publishing as a business remains white-owned, the authors who receive most attention also white. Stories told about the poor, majority black population don’t get as much attention. If black writers are published, they tell stories that white publishers feel to be safe - Kopano Matlwa’s Nervous Conditions, for example – or they are published because they are already recognized as journalists or business people.
It is important to note that South African publishing is also influenced by the sort of content that receives worldwide attention through its affiliation with (and imposition by) international publishing houses, most of which have a monopoly on the economics of global trade publishing.
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Written by Jenny Brown
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Monday, 26 April 2010 22:17 |
Anyone wishing to renew acquaintance with the publishing industry north of the border should have squeezed into the recent Publishing Scotland (PS) conference, writes literary agent Jenny Brown. At first sight it would seem not much has changed over the years. As usual – this is Scotland – there’s a stushie (that’s an uproar for non-Scots speakers) in the sector, this time the waves caused by recommendations of a Review of Literature commissioned by the Scottish Government. It calls for Publishing Scotland’s state funding of £260k to be slashed and for the organisation to be restructured under the direction of IPG, either completely integrated or closely affiliated.
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Monday, 26 April 2010 22:07 |
Despite the recession, publishing in Wales is thriving , writes Mairwen Prys Jones. At Gomer Press, we can report with some relief that sales are buoyant: parents are clearly buying Welsh books for their children; adults are buying novels and biographies; books on Welsh themes are as popular as ever.
Why do the Welsh revere books so much? It’s a long story, which takes us back at least as far as 1847 when inspectors from England observed Welsh education and culture at work. The inspectors misinterpreted what they saw and were harshly critical, declaring that the learning was contemptible and the people corrupt and ignorant.
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