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Sarah Waters wins Writer of the Year at the Glamour Magazine Awards!
Congratulations go to Sarah Waters, who has won the Glamour Magazine Writer of the Year 2010! In June, Sarah accepted the award from the actress Keeley Hawes, who played Kitty Butler in the 2002 BBC adaptation of TIPPING THE VELVET. The prize is voted for by readers of Glamour Magazine; and the suitably star-studded ceremony took...» Read more...
Andrea Gillies has been shortlisted for the 2010 British Medical Association Awards
The BMA Medical Book Awards were established in 1996 and aim to encourage and to reward excellence in medical publishing. Prizes are awarded in 21 categories, with an overall BMA Medical book of the year award made from the category winners. Andrea Gillies' KEEPER has been nominated in the Popular Medicine category which covers clinical books...» Read more...
Congratulations to Lucy Christopher whose debut novel, STOLEN, has won this year's Branford Boase Award and been shortlisted for the Australian 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards!
The Branford Boase Award is given each year to the most outstanding work of fiction for children by a first time novelist. Lucy was awarded the prize for her novel at a ceremony at Walker Books in London and was presented with a cheque for £1,000 and a unique, hand-crafted, silver-inlaid box by former Children's Laureate, Jacqueline...» Read more...
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the Landshare initiative win prizes at the 2010 Guild of Food Writers Awards!
Congratulations to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the Landshare initiative as they take prizes at the 2010 Guild of Food Writers Awards! Now in their 15th year, the awards are a major event in the annual calendar of the Guild of Food Writers, a body which continues to strive to further excellence in food writing. Hugh won the prestigious Evelyn...» Read more...
The long-awaited sixth book in Jean Auel's Earth Children Series will be published in March 2011
Jean M. Auel, whose novels about prehistoric life have won her recognition and acclaim throughout the world, has written the highly-anticipated sixth and final book in the Earth's Children Series. THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES will be published in hardcover simultaneously in all territories with deals so far in the UK, Croatia, Finland, France,...» Read more...
Bill Bryson's eagerly anticipated new book is published, supported by an exciting publicity and marketing campaign
In AT HOME, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING one of the most lauded books of the last decade. Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering...» Read more...
Reif Larsen has been shortlisted for the 2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the U.K's oldest and most prestigious literary awards. The prizes, awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh, have achieved an international reputation for their recognition of literary excellence in biography and fiction. Awarded since 1919, previous fiction winners include D.H....» Read more...
Andrea Gillies' KEEPER has won this year's Orwell Prize for political writing
Andrea Gillies fought off stiff competition last night from titles including Petina Gappah's AN ELEGY FOR EASTERLY and Christopher De Bellaigue's REBEL LAND to claim the £3,000 prize money and plaque for the 2010 Orwell Prize. 212 books were originally entered, and 18 were longlisted. The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for...» Read more...
Congratulatons to Marcus Du Sautoy who has been awarded an OBE for services to Science
Marcus Du Sautoy has been named on the 2010 New Years Honours List and awarded an OBE for services to Science. Marcus du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford where he holds the prestigious Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science and is a Fellow of New College. He is Senior Media Fellow at the EPSRC, and has...» Read more...
Four Greene & Heaton Authors in Books that Defined the Noughties
Four Greene & Heaton authors feature on the Daily Telegraph`s list of 100 Books That Defined the Noughties. Brian McArthur`s selection includes A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING by Bill Bryson, THE NIGHT WATCH by Sarah Waters, IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY by Rajiv Chandrasekaran and DISSOLUTION by C.J. Sansom. A SHORT...» Read more...
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