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Man Booker longlist announced
The longlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize has been announced. Early bookies’ favourite is former winner Alan Hollinghurst with The Stranger’s Child but I’m really pleased to see four first-time...
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Room
Published: 2010 Author: Emma Donoghue The harrowing story of a child born into horror Like lots of people there’s part of me that believes that I could write a best-selling novel. I read the...
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CWA Daggers Shortlists Announced
The Crime Writers’ Association has announced the shortlists for their prestigious Dagger awards. Nominees for the top prize – the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the Year – are: Tom...
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Richard & Judy autumn picks announced
Richard & Judy, in partnership with WHSmith, have announced their selection for the autumn bookclub. In the year since the bookclub was launched over three million copies of the selected titles...
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The Slap
Published: 2010 Author: Christos Tsiolkas A nasty book with no redeeming features One of last year’s big publishing hits was Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap. It won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, was...
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Julian Barnes Wins Booker Prize
Dame Stella Rimmington, former head of MI6 and chair of the 2011 Man Booker judging panel, announced tonight that Julian Barnes had won the prestigious award for his novel The Sense of an Ending. This...
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Top Ten: Books On My Christmas List
Christmas is coming, Santa’s nearly here. Hooray. I’ll try not to get too excited too early and frustrate everyone but it’s mid-November, perfect timing to start thinking about the festive season....
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“Biography” of cancer wins award
The Emperor of All Maladies, a biography of cancer by oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, has won The Guardian First Book award and the £10,000 prize. Mukherjee’s book beat four novels on the shortlist...
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Man Booker Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize has been announced this morning. The six nominated novels are: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng Swimming Home by Deborah Levy Bring up the Bodies...
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