Hit Obama books turn city publisher into Jamie Bling
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
WITH his two-day-old stubble and wild hair, Jamie Byng may look like he has just stepped off a desert island.
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Hit Obama books turn city publisher into Jamie Bling
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
WITH his two-day-old stubble and wild hair, Jamie Byng may look like he has just stepped off a desert island.
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Yann Martel’s “shocking” new novel
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Yann Martel’s follow-up to Life of Pi, titled Beatrice and Virgil and due in June 2010, is already generating controversy in the U.K., where Martel’s publisher, Canongate, has described the novel, an allegory about the Holocaust, as “shocking.” From CBC News: According to Jamie Byng, managing director and publisher of Canongate, “it will take us somewhere...
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Barack’s brother speaks out
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... £7.35 million in just six months. The windfall has propelled the success of Canongate’s publisher, Jamie Byng, whom the Edinburgh-based newspaper describes as the “enfant terrible of British publishing.” The 40-year-old discovered the works of the then aspiring Democrat politician three years ago, before he rose to worldwide fame. Snapping up the U.K. and Commonwealth publishing rights...