Weidenfeld & Nicholson Established in 1949. Publishers of high quality, prize-winning fiction and non fiction across a range of categories including autobiography, business, cookery, economics, fiction in translation, history, literary fiction and popular science. Phoenix is the paperback imprint.

The W&N Book Club: Our chosen book group review Alys, Always

Book Club, Fiction

- December 5th, 2012

Alys Always by Harriet Lane

This month our first book group let us know their thoughts on Alys, Always by Harriet Lane

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W&N Classics: The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien

Fiction

- December 3rd, 2012

The Country Girls Edna O Brien

W&N Editorial Assistant Jennifer Kerslake launches our new monthly feature, with this coming-of-age tale from 1960

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Independent Bookshops Fight Back

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- November 29th, 2012

We all love independent bookshops, of course, but I’m feeling particularly warm towards them this week thanks to the brilliantly tongue-in-cheek campaign that’s currently running across the country. Poking sly fun at Amazon’s current woes with parliament – the internet giant stands accused by MPs of avoiding UK taxes – independent booksellers are proudly displaying posters emblazoned with slogans including “Can pay do pay! We pay our taxes”, and “Your money, your bookshop, your community, we pay our taxes”.

And I’m not the only one feeling the indie love. This weekend, Barack Obama took his daughters to One More Page, an independent bookstore in Arlington, Virginia, where they snapped up 15 children’s books .

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The Day I Made the Costa First Novel Shortlist

Fiction, J.W. Ironmonger, Prize-winners

- November 27th, 2012

The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger

Author J.W. Ironmonger tells us about his recent experience

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Richard Morris on Time’s Anvil

Non Fiction

- November 23rd, 2012

Time's Anvil by Richard Morris

W&N author Richard Morris discusses how he came to write Time’s Anvil  and his own experience of publication.

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