The British Book Awards’ three-hour digital prize program included Nibbie winners announcements in 28 categories.
An opening shot of the British Book Awards’ three hour streamed presentation set at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. Image: Publishing Perspectives
No Rest for the Video Editors
The British Book Awards this evening (May 13) have streamed for three hours from London their second annual digitally delivered awards program.
This year, the program’s interstitial hosting segments were set in the empty main hall of the Battersea Arts Centre in Lavender Hill, a handsome backdrop for
The Bookseller editor Philip Jones, publisher relations director Emma Lowe, and broadcaster Lauren Laverne.
The works featured in this installment in our Rights Roundup series include the tale of a famous pearl and ‘Magic Candies’ from Korea.
Authors and illustrators whose work is featured in today’s Rights Roundup include, on the upper row from left, Magda Hellinger; Maya Lee; Carmen Posadas; and Jenny Jägerfeld. On the lower are, from left, Heena Baek; José Ovejero; Magdalena Hai; and Teemu Juhani
A Rights Event Reminder: French Week
As this is the last Rights Roundup we’ll have before it opens, we want to refer you to our coverage of the rights program French Week, running May 17 to 28, a project of BIEF, the Bureau International de L’Édition Français the international outreach organization for France’s publishers.
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As Peter Oborne will remember, because we’ve both been journalists for a long time, a couple of glorious front pages appeared in The Guardian last century. The paper’s splash headline in 1996 about litigious government minister Neil Hamilton contained only five words: “A liar and a cheat”. This was overtopped the following year with a six-word splash on Jonathan Aitken, another dishonest minister who had sued the papers for libel in that sleazy government: “He lied and lied and lied”.
In those days, ministers who were found out lying to Parliament were doomed. The 1963 political fate of John Profumo, the war minister who unwisely denied having sex with Christine Keeler, was always reverentially quoted, and Erskine May, Parliament’s official bible, as Oborne records, spelled out the rule: