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Lydia Davis wins the Man Booker International Prize 2013
Many congratulations to Lydia Davis who was awarded the fifth Man Booker International Prize last night at a ceremony at the V&A. The £60 000 prize, awarded every two years, recognises excellence in a living writer for fiction originally written in English or whose work is generally available in English language translation. It...» Read more...
Lucy Clarke signing at Waterstones Bournemouth
Here's a sneak peak at our author Lucy Clarke signing copies of her Richard and Judy Book Club listed debut THE SEA SISTERS last week at Waterstones Bournemouth.» Read more...
WALKACTIVE in the Mail on Sunday
We were delighted to see Joanna Hall's WALKACTIVE PROGRAMME featured in the Mail on Sunday this weekend. To read more about Joanna's unique method, and for exclusive tips, techniques and success stories, click here.» Read more...
THE SEA SISTERS a Bookseller Heatseeker
Congratulations to Lucy Clarke whose debut novel, THE SEA SISTERS, has come in at number 5 in The Bookseller Top 20 Fiction Heatseekers in its first week of publication. A Richard and Judy Summer 2013 Book Club pick, THE SEA SISTERS follows protagonist Katie as her carefully constructed world is shattered by the news that her headstrong...» Read more...
Thomasina Miers to present The Grocer Awards 2013
Food writer, Wahaca entrepreneur and Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers has been invited to host The Grocer Own Label Food & Drink Awards 2013. The 285 shortlisted products in the running for the prize will compete across almost 70 categories for the chance to win the prestigious Gold award. Each entry is judged by The Grocer’s...» Read more...
ELEANOR AND PARK shortlisted for the 2013 Melissa Nathan Award
Congratulations to Rainbow Rowell whose stunning novel of first love, ELEANOR & PARK, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Melissa Nathan Award for Fiction About Life and Love, a prize that seeks to ‘encourage and reward writers who can combine in a novel the magical, life-enhancing elements of humour and love.’ John Green, author of...» Read more...
PD James awarded 2012 Churchill Award for Contribution to Literature
Congratulations to P.D. James who has been awarded the 2012 Churchill Award for Contribution to Literature. PD James’ Award recognises the outstanding success of DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY as well as her willingness to remain very much in the public eye, projecting a powerful role model for older people. Other winners of Churchill Awards this...» Read more...
Sabine Durrant for Waterstones crime panel event
On Thursday 16th May Sabine Durrant will be discussing her new novel UNDER YOUR SKIN as part of a psychological crime panel at Waterstones Piccadilly. UNDER YOUR SKINis a brilliantly orchestrated, psychological suspense novel about a TV presenter who discovers the body of a strangled woman and finds herself at the centre of a murder...» Read more...
The Sea Sisters picked for Richard and Judy Summer Book Club
Many congratulations to Lucy Clarke whose first novel THE SEA SISTERS has been selected for the Richard and Judy Summer 2013 Book Club. Run in conjunction with WHSmith, the Book Club chooses a new collection of titles three times a year. The lists are supported by podcasts featuring interviews between Richard and Judy and the selected authors...» Read more...
Michael Frayn Honoured with Olivier Special Award
Congratulations to Michael Frayn on being honoured with the Special Award at this year’s Olivier Awards. Michael was presented with the award by Roger Allam during a ceremony at the Royal Opera House on Sunday 28th April. Michael received his award alongside director-choreographer Gillian Lynne. Mark Rubinstein, president of...» Read more...
PETITE MORT on Desmond Elliott Prize longlist
Congratulations to Beatrice Hitchman whose novel PETITE MORT has been longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. The prize, which is in its sixth year, honours the best in debut fiction, and previous winners have included Ali Shaw and Anjali Joseph. PETITE MORT is a brilliant kaleidoscope of converging and conflicting stories. There is...» Read more...
SWAMPLANDIA! on the IMPAC shortlist
Congratulations to Karen Russell whose novel SWAMPLANDIA! has been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. SWAMPLANDIA! was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2011. A dark and mythic story, bursting with energy and an unstoppable inventiveness,...» Read more...
THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize
Congratulations to Benjamin Wood who has been shortlisted for another literary award for his debut novel THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS. This follows selections for both the 2012 Costa First Novel Award and the Waverton Good Read Award shortlists. THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS tells the story of bright, bookish Oscar Lowe, a care worker in...» Read more...
SKIOS shortlisted for Bolinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
Congratulations to Michael Frayn who has been shortlisted for the Bolinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction for his novel SKIOS. SKIOS is set on the eponymous Greek island where the Fred Toppler Foundation’s annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He...» Read more...
Benjamin Wood shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award
Many congratulations to Benjamin Wood whose debut novel, THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS, has been shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award. THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS was a finalist for the 2012 Costa First Novel Award. The Waverton Good Read Award is an annual prize founded in 2003 by residents of Waverton village in...» Read more...
Greene and Heaton authors selected for Waterstones Book Club
Congratulations to Michael Frayn and Kim Barnes whose novels, SKIOS and IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN respectively, will feature on the latest Waterstones Book Club list. Set to launch on Thursday 28 March and hailed as the 'most eclectic and exciting selection to date', one chosen title (of a total of fourteen) will be highlighted each...» Read more...
River Cottage is heading Down Under!
RIVER COTTAGE AUSTRALIA has announced Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Australian counterpart as Paul West, who will set up a sustainable farm in the Australian countryside and present the new local version of Hugh’s television series RIVER COTTAGE. Based on the successful British format, the show will be...» Read more...
Hugh's Fish Fight Continues on Channel 4
The third episode of Hugh’s Fish Fight: Save Our Seas airs tonight, 28th February, on Channel 4 and Channel 4 HD at 9.00pm. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's campaign to save the world’s diminishing fish stocks has been gathering strength since series one which aired last year. Tonight's episode sees the Fish...» Read more...
LONDON BRIDGE IN AMERICA in the press
Travis Elborough's latest book, LONDON BRIDGE IN AMERICA: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing, has been garnering media attention this week ahead of its publication by Jonathan Cape.» Read more...
Lydia Davis a finalist for The Man Booker International Prize!
Congratulations to Lydia Davis who is on the finalists' list for The Man Booker International Prize 2013! Lydia is the author of several volumes of short stories which were recently published as The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Penguin, 2011). She has also translated French classics including Proust’s The Way by Swann's...» Read more...
Hugh nominated for Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award!
Congratulations to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who has been nominated for the Television Personality Award at the first annual Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards! Fortnum & Mason, of Piccadilly, London, have created the awards this year to celebrate the finest food and drink talent in the UK. The awards, which will take place on 14 May...» Read more...
Sarah Waters and Marcus du Sautoy Honoured by Queen Mary University
Sarah Waters and Marcus du Sautoy have both received honorary degrees from Queen Mary, University of London, joining historian Simon Schama and 1,100 Queen Mary students at degree ceremonies. Marcus du Sautoy, who has lectured at Queen Mary on several occasions, was named Honorary Doctor of Science by Professor Majid of Queen Mary's...» Read more...
Greene and Heaton Authors in The Sunday Times Top 10
Congratulations to C.J. Sansom and Katherine Webb who are both in The Sunday Times Bestsellers lists! C.J. Sansom’s novel DOMINION (Macmillan) is number 9 in the Hardback Fiction while Katherine Webb’s A HALF FORGOTTEN SONG (Orion) is number 9 in the Paperback Fiction. In A HALF FORGOTTEN SONG, Katherine Webb tells the story of...» Read more...
Greene & Heaton Authors longlisted for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award!
Congratulations to P. D. James, Steven Amsterdam, Karen Russell, and Guy Vanderhaeghe who are all on the longlist for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The €100,000 award celebrates books of international ‘high literary merit’ and is the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work. PD...» Read more...
THE GUILTY ONE Wins Richard & Judy Book Club Vote
Congratulations to Lisa Ballantyne whose novel THE GUILTY ONE has won the readers’ vote for the Richard and Judy autumn Book Club titles at WH Smith. When asked why he and Judy had come to choose THE GUILTY ONE, Richard Madeley said: “It is one of the most readable, emotionally intense novels of the year, and a debut one at...» Read more...
P.D. James wins Sacla' Women of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
Best-selling crime author and Life Peer P.D. James has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women of the Year Lunch & Awards 2012. Five awards were presented to exceptional women who have each proved an inspiration to others through their courage, selflessness, dedication and achievement. Clare Blampied, Managing Director of...» Read more...
Dan Lepard to Judge The Great Australian Bake Off
Dan Lepard will join fellow Australian Kerry Vincent in the search to find Australia’s Best Home Baker. The Great Australian Bake Off, an adaptation of the hugely successful BBC format, will involve ten home cooks baking sweet and savoury treats to tempt the judges and will be broadcast later in 2013. Dan, whose approach is all about...» Read more...
Kerry Wilkinson's new fantasy series is to be published by Pan Macmillan
Pan Macmillan will publish a new fantasy trilogy called THE SILVER BLACKTHORN by Kerry Wilkinson with the first instalment due to be released in Autumn 2013. The fantasy drama is set in the north of England and charts sixteen-year-old Silver’s experience as she undergoes a test called the Reckoning before being sent as an offering to the...» Read more...
Steven Amsterdam is shortlisted for The AGE Book of the Year Awards!
Steven Amsterdam's novel WHAT THE FAMILY NEEDED is on the shortlist of 5 novels for this year's AGE Book of the Year awards. The judges described the book as 'wry and subtle, finely nuanced. It is ultimately an unsettling journey, taking a different and wholly original path. Above all, it is elegantly, concisely written.' THE AGE Book...» Read more...
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