Caroline Carpenter
Children’s Editor and Deputy Features Editor at The Bookseller
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thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
NewsPeter Usborne wearing his CBE medal, on the 7th February, 2023. © Martin Usborne“Groundbreaking publisher” Peter Usborne CBE, founder and chairman of Usborne, was mourned by guests from around the world at a memorial service held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on Friday 16th May. YOU’VE REACHED YOUR ARTICLE LIMITSign in or register below for free to unlock 2 articles each month and receive personalised newsletters to your inbox.
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3 weeks ago |
thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
Rights Andersen Press has acquired This is Who I Am, written by Rashmi Sirdeshpande and illustrated by Ruchi Mhasane, the team behind the award-winning Dadaji’s Paintbrush. World rights were secured by Sue Buswell, editorial director for picture books at Andersen Press, from Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency Ltd, with US rights already sold to Magination Press by Andersen Press’ rights director Liz White.
Alan Cumming: the actor-writer talks about his literary ambitions for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre
1 month ago |
thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
"I’ve always found books a great solace and great comfort,” says actor, writer and presenter Alan Cumming, who has recently added another string to his bow as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the Scottish Highlands. We are talking via Zoom shortly after the theatre’s 21st Winter Words Festival, for which Cumming curated the line-up. It was, he tells me, a “huge success”. “There was a great atmosphere in the building, and we had some amazing authors and fun events.
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1 month ago |
thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
An analogue to something like the Stinging Fly, Gutter or Granta – a contemporary literary periodical that is synonymous with, and tirelessly champions, the best emerging and established writing of a nation – is something that we’ve long felt Wales has needed.
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1 month ago |
thebookseller.com | Caroline Carpenter
FeaturesIndustry insiders on the existential threat faced by Welsh publishers and the importance of banding together to survive Welsh publishers have warned that the current scene for small players is “critical”, thanks to cuts in government funding and rising costs, with Welsh-language publishing particularly at risk. Lefi Gruffudd, general editor of Y Lolfa, described the past 12 months as “one of the most difficult years in publishing I can remember, especially on the Welsh-language side”.
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