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Congratulations to Hugh's Fish Fight and Keo Films for Broadcast Award!

Announced last night, 2nd Feb, Hugh’s Fish Fight was awarded the gong for Best Popular Factual Programme at the 2012 Broadcast Awards! The Broadcast Awards are considered to be the largest celebration of production companies, programmes and channels in the broadcasting industry. Fish Fight, produced by Keo Films and aired on Channel 4,...

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Congratulations to Dan Lepard who has been shortlisted for an Andre Simon Food and Drink Award!

Dan Lepard’s SHORT AND SWEET (Fourth Estate, £25) has been shortlisted for a prestigious Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Award. Dan Lepard’s innovative and earthy approach has made him the baker that every top chef wants in their kitchen, and with this utterly dependable how-to-bake book you’ll be baking cakes, pastries,...

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Congratulations to Andrea Gillies, Cullen Murphy, Madeleine Tobert, Will Wiles and Benjamin Wood!

Today is the day for publishing celebrations aplenty! Congratulations to Andrea Gillies for THE WHITE LIE (Short Books), Cullen Murphy for GOD’S JURY (Allen Lane), Madeleine Tobert for THE SEA ON OUR SKIN (Two Roads, Hodder), Will Wiles for CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS (Fourth Estate) and Benjamin Wood for THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS (Simon and...

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Congratulations to River Cottage and Wahaca restaurants! Both have won awards from the Sustainable Restaurant Association!

Huge congratulations go to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage canteens and the RC events centre, and to Thomasina Miers’ Wahaca restaurants! The SRA awarded River Cottage the Award for Sourcing and Wahaca the Sustainable Restaurant Group of the Year. The awards, in this their first year, aim to celebrate the best in...

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CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS named in Waterstones 11!

Congratulations to Will Wiles, whose novel CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS has been named in the Waterstones 11 for 2012. The annual list is Waterstones’ pick of the best debut novels of the coming year, and also includes books by Chad Harbach, Frances Greenslade, Eowyn Ivey, Patrick Flanery, Grace McCleen, Rachel Joyce, Charlotte Rogan, Anna Raverat,...

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RIVER COTTAGE VEG EVERY DAY! at number one!

RIVER COTTAGE VEG EVERY DAY! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s latest book, has reached the number one spot! After a brilliant autumn and a veg-filled Christmas – Hugh’s RIVER COTTAGE VEG EVERY DAY! is at number one in the hardback non-fiction charts RIVER COTTAGE VEG EVERY DAY! is designed to encourage us to eat more veg....

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HIS LAST DUCHESS Hits Number One in US Kindle Store Chart!

The US edition of HIS LAST DUCHESS by Gabrielle Kimm, published by Sourcebooks, reached number one in the Amazon.com Kindle Store chart on Thursday 12th January, ahead of big names including Suzanne Collins, Kathryn Stockett, Stieg Larsson and John Grisham. HIS LAST DUCHESS: When sixteen-year-old Lucrezia de' Medici marries the fifth Duke...

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2011 Chart Success for Greene & Heaton Authors

Congratulations to PD James, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Bill Bryson and Jean Auel who all feature prominently in lists of bestselling titles of 2011. In the Sunday Times chart, PD James’s new novel, DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY her follow-on to PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, was the sixth bestselling book of the year in hardback fiction despite...

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HEARTSTONE named New York Times' 'Favourite Historical Mystery'

HEARTSTONE, the latest book in CJ Sansom’s Shardlake series, has been named by the New York Times as ‘Favourite Historical Mystery’ in its ‘Notable Crime Books of 2011’ feature. The novel is the fifth in the bestselling Shardlake series which follows the adventures of hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake...

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Excitement Building Ahead of Publication of THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS

THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS, the first novel by Benjamin Wood, has been included in 2012 books previews in both the Observer and the Independent, ahead of its publication by Simon & Schuster on February 2. In the Observer the book is one of three first novels recommended as 2012 reads, and in the Independent is featured alongside Eowyn Ivey and...

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