The prestigious British prize has announced its annual winners in the categories of journalism and political writing, together with a special prize for foreign correspondent the late Marie Colvin, who died in Syria.
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One of the most prestigious of British publishers existed as an independent entity from 1768 to 2002 and published Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Charles Darwin and many others.
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A paw print found on a fifteenth century manuscript has set social media abuzz.
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Fifty years ago four New York friends met for dinner and came up with a project which was to leave a lasting mark on American intellectual life.
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There are two ways of looking at it: bookshops are about atmosphere, character, associations, romance; or they are about books. If we go for the former we soon won’t have any bookshops.
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A dispute between France and Luxembourg and the European Commission seems to have implications for the question of whether individual European companies will be able to thrive in the electronic book market or if it will be a case of (American) winner takes all.
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If Johann Gutenberg’s first money-making wheeze had gone just a little differently he might not have bothered inventing printing.
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Hilary Mantel, after two Bookers, has won the novel category award for the Costa. The overall winner of the prize will be announced later this month.
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Publisher Christopher MacLehose remembers a time when emigres were prominent in London publishing and work in translation was far from unusual.
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Michael Fassbender and Colin Firth are to join forces in a new film which will show the true glamour and romance inherent in the job of changing words on a page.
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Claudio Magris's account of a stubborn chronicler of the copious inconvenience of living.
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Robert McCrum remembers the old world of publishing and bookselling, writers, printers and agents, now, alas (perhaps) fast fading away.
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When was it we were promised the paperless office? It seems we can't do without the white stuff.
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Dr Johnson loved books. He loved to pull them apart, rip the heart out of them, devour them.
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In the late fifteenth century, the republic on the Adriatic was Europe’s most flourishing centre of publishing.
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