Guardian first book award: the longlist 2012

Guardian first book award: the longlist 2012

Fiction

The China Factory by Mary Costello (Stinging Fly Press)

Absolution by Patrick Flanery (Atlantic)

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Fourth Estate)

Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson (Chatto & Windus)

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Sceptre)

The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (Virago)

Non-fiction

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (Portobello)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Viking)

The Origins of Sex by Faramerz Dabhoiwala (Allen Lane)

Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution by Lindsey Hilsum (Faber)

Readers' choice

Pelt by Sarah Jackson (Bloodaxe)

Judge approves U.S. settlement with publishers over e-books

A U.S. judge approved on Thursday a Justice Department settlement with three publishers accused of conspiring with Apple Inc and other publishers to push up the prices of electronic books. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan said comments on the settlement were "voluminous and overwhelmingly negative," but there was no excuse for price-fixing. The Justice Department had accused Apple and five publishers in April of illegally colluding on prices as part of an effort to fight internet retailer Amazon.com Inc's dominance of e-books. The publishers who agreed to settle are News Corp's HarperCollins Publishers Inc, CBS Corp's Simon & Schuster Inc and Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group - Reuters

The Diary of a Young Girl digital edition

On October 18, sixty-seven years after her death - just three weeks shy of her 16th birthday - from typhus and malnutrition in Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank's diary is being published as an interactive app by Viking, Penguin, and TradeMobile. With it, readers will be able to explore Anne Frank's world, to see what it looked like, what it sounded like, and what it felt like to live in hiding. With the touch of a button, the original manuscript pages of Anne's diary will appear, giving readers access to Anne's sketches, scribblers and notes. Readers will also be able to hear Helena Bonham Carter reading Anne's diary entries, watch videos of those who secretly helped Anne and her family to survive nearly two years of hiding in the "secret annex," and listen to original radio broadcasts, enabling the reader to experience history through Anne

2012 Principal Prince Claus Award to Argentinian publishing co-operative Eloísa Cartonera

Eloísa Cartonera is a publishing co-operative of handmade books of recycled materials. The materials are collected by cartoneros, unemployed who tried to survive after Argentina's political and economic collapse in 2001. Drawn to Eloísa's social solidarity, established and emerging Latin American writers donate short stories, novels and other forms of literature. Eloísa Cartonera transformed 'the book' from an unattainable object into a widely accessible source of pleasure, knowledge and self-development. More than 60 cartonera publishers are currently operating in countries across Latin America

Whitefox Publishing Services

Whitefox Publishing Services is a network of specialists, combining the best new talent with individuals who have been responsible for making some of the most successful books of the past 20 years

Wellcome Trust Book Prize longlist (UK)

The longlist for the £25,000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize has been announced, bringing together a varied range of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness and medicine. From music to madness and from anatomy to genetic engineering, this eclectic mix of books reflects the extraordinary number of ways in which authors can explore medicine to make it both engaging and accessible. The longlist includes five novels and nine works of non-fiction:

John Coates - 'The Hour Between Dog and Wolf' (Fourth Estate)
Joshua Cody - '[Sic]' (Bloomsbury)
Nick Coleman - 'The Train in the Night' (Jonathan Cape)
Mohammed Hanif - 'Our Lady of Alice Bhatti' (Jonathan Cape)
Peter James - 'Perfect People' (Macmillan)
Harry Karlinsky - 'The Evolution of Inanimate Objects' (The Friday Project)
Darian Leader - 'What is Madness?' (Hamish Hamilton)
Ken Macleod - 'Intrusion' (Orbit)
Professor Peter Piot - 'No Time to Lose' (W W Norton & Company)
Michael Shermer - 'The Believing Brain' (Constable & Robinson)
Tim Spector - 'Identically Different' (Wiedenfeld & Nicolson)
Rose Tremain - 'Merivel: A man of his time' (Chatto & Windus)
Thomas Wright - 'Circulation' (Chatto & Windus)
Paul Zak - 'The Moral Molecule' (Transworld)

2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist (Canada)

The 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury has announced its longlist of books in the running for this year's award. The jury selected 13 titles out of 142 books, put forward by 51 publishers, from every region of Canada. This year's jury is made up of Irish author and screen writer Roddy Doyle (Dublin, Ireland); Canadian publisher, writer and essayist Anna Porter (Toronto, Canada); and American author and satirist Gary Shteyngart (New York City, USA). From a large and highly competitive field, the Scotiabank Giller Prize jury selected the following titles for this year's longlist:

Marjorie Celona for her novel Y, published by Hamish Hamilton Canada
Lauren B. Davis for her novel Our Daily Bread, published by HarperCollins Canada
Cary Fagan for his short story collection My Life Among the Apes, published by Cormorant Books
Will Ferguson for his novel 419, published by Viking Canada
Robert Hough for his novel Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, published by House of Anansi Press
Billie Livingston for her novel One Good Hustle, published by Random House Canada
Annabel Lyon for her novel The Sweet Girl, published by Random House Canada
Alix Ohlin for her novel Inside, published by House of Anansi Press
Katrina Onstad for her novel Everybody Has Everything, published by McClelland & Stewart/Emblem
CS Richardson for his novel The Emperor of Paris, published by Doubleday Canada
Nancy Richler for her novel The Imposter Bride, published by HarperCollins Canada
Kim Thúy for her novel Ru, translated by Sheila Fischman, published by Random House Canada
Russell Wangersky for his short story collection Whirl Away, published by Thomas Allen Publishers

Quickfire Workshops from The Publishing Training Centre

The Publishing Training Centre - "We are delighted to announce a brand new course format: Quickfire Workshops - concentrated, interactive, affordable, 4-hour workshops that hit your high-tech button. Drive innovation and dynamic growth in just an afternoon out of the office.

We will be launching this series of workshops on hot, topical themes in October 2012. We can't predict even six months in advance just what the topics will be, all we can promise you is that they will match the rapid rate of technological change. When you need to get up to speed with the latest developments, such as new releases of specific technology or latest trends, you can't hang around, sign up for news about the workshops by visiting the Quickfire Workshops page on our website.

Each workshop will comprise a technology update by an acknowledged expert and a hands-on, interactive session based on your needs. We will ask you to bring in real examples and projects you are working on"

London book and poetry events: 5-11 September, 2012

Book, poetry and spoken word events in London 5-11 September, 2012

The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2012

The Rona Jaffe Foundation has announced winners of this year's Writers' Awards, which recognize six emerging women writers and awards each of them $30,000. The 2012 honorees are Julia Elliott (fiction), Christina Nichol (fiction), Lauren Goodwin Slaughter (poetry), Rachel Swearingen (fiction), Kim Tingley (nonfiction) and Inara Verzemnieks (nonfiction). They will be honored at a private ceremony on September 20 in New York City