2010 archive
Bill Bryson wins Educational Writers' Award
Bill Bryson has won the Educational Writers’ Award for A REALLY SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, abridged and edited by Felicia Law. A REALLY SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING (Doubleday) is the specially adapted and abridged edition of Bill Bryson’s A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, for younger...» Read more...
MY FATHER'S FORTUNE in the press
MY FATHER’S FORTUNE, Michael Frayn’s delightful and honest memoir of his father and of his own childhood, has attracted a number of stellar mentions in the recent Christmas round-ups. In the Evening Standard, Katie Laws picked MY FATHER’S FORTUNE as “the book that stood out” in 2010, while Greg Eden in the Independent...» Read more...
FINGERSMITH and DISSOLUTION chosen for World Book Night
Congratulations to Sarah Waters and C.J. Sansom who have both had titles selected for the inaugural World Book Night list. Sarah Waters’ FINGERSMITH, shortlisted for the 2002 Booker and Orange Prizes, and DISSOLUTION, the first in C.J. Sansom’s bestselling Shardlake series, appear in the list of 25 titles which also includes...» Read more...
Stellar Cast Announced for BBC Two's THE NIGHT WATCH
BBC Two have announced that Anna Maxwell Martin, Claire Foy, Jodie Whittaker and Harry Treadaway will star in a tragic and tender adaptation of Sarah Waters’ bestselling Booker-shortlisted novel THE NIGHT WATCH. Adapted by award-winning British writer Paula Milne (Small Island and The Virgin Queen), and made by BBC Drama Production in...» Read more...
Michael Frayn Wins Writer's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award
Michael Frayn has won the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Lifetime Achievement Award joining a list of recipients that includes Lord (Ted) Willis, John Osborne, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Dennis Potter and Alan Plater. The awards, founded in 1961, are significant as they are the only ones in which writers are honoured by their peers.» Read more...
Two Greene & Heaton Authors Shortlisted for Costa Awards!
Congratulations to Michael Frayn and Lucy Christopher who have both been named on shortlists for the Costa Awards, announced last night. Michael Frayn’s memoir of his father, My Father’s Fortune (Faber & Faber) is nominated for the biography award alongside Sarah Bakewell for How to Live: A Life of Montaigne and Edmund de...» Read more...
Tonight on BBC Four: The Beauty of Diagrams
The Beauty of Diagrams, a new six-part TV series in which renowned mathematician and author Marcus du Sautoy examines the stories behind some of the most familiar scientific diagrams, begins tonight on BBC Four at 20.30. In tonight’s episode du Sautoy looks into Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous diagram of the human body, The Vitruvian...» Read more...
RSC Bill Bryson Prize 2010
The Royal Society of Chemistry Bill Bryson Prize winners were announced on 20 October with six students honoured in recognition of clear science communication at schools and colleges. The winners were awarded their prizes of £500 for their schools and £100 each at a ceremony in London attended by Bill Bryson, the Minister for Science...» Read more...
Four Greene & Heaton Authors in OFM '25 Best Cookbooks of 2010'
The latest books from Henry Dimbleby, Thomasina Miers, Claire Ptak and Rebecca Seal all feature on Observer Food Monthly’s list of the 25 best cookbooks of 2010 which also includes Jamie Oliver, Yotam Ottolenghi and Madhur Jaffrey among others. LEON BOOK 2: Naturally Fast Food (Conran 2010) by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent is a cookbook of...» Read more...
Michael Frayn shortlisted for the 2010 Travel Press Awards
TRAVELS WITH A TYPEWRITER by Michael Frayn has been shortlisted for the Travel Press Awards’ Travel Book of the Year, in the Narrative Book Award category. Other shortlisted titles include BLUE SKIES AND BLACK OLIVES by John Humphrys and Christopher Humphrys (Hodder & Stoughton); LAST CALL...» Read more...
Bill Bryson's eagerly anticipated AT HOME published to rave reviews in America
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 what...» Read more...
PD James has won the BBC's Nick Clarke Award for journalism!
PD James has been awarded the Nick Clarke Award for her interview last December with Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC.» Read more...
CJ Sansom's novel HEARTSTONE tops bestseller lists
Congratulations to CJ Sansom, whose new novel HEARTSTONE last week took the number one spot on the hardcover bestseller list. HEARTSTONE is the fifth in the award winning Matthew Shardlake series. HEARTSTONE is a gripping historical crime thriller set during the reign of Henry VIII. Lawyer Matthew Shardlake is sent to Portsmouth by Queen Catherine...» Read more...
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...
Congratulations to Lucy Christopher whose debut novel, STOLEN, has won this year's Branford Boase Award and was 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...
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...
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