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Four Greene & Heaton Authors in Books that Defined the Noughties

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 HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, first published in 2004, is Bill Bryson`s extraordinarily wide-ranging and hugely entertaining guide to science. A long-running bestseller, it won the Aventis Prize for Science Writing and the EU Descrartes Prize for Science Communication, and has recently been republished in a new version for children entitled A REALLY SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING.
 
With THE NIGHT WATCH, Sarah Waters moved away from the Victorian setting of her first three novels to explore the lives and love affairs of three women and one man during the Second World War. This structurally ambitious and hauntingly sad novel won huge critical acclaim and was shortlisted for both The Man Booker Prize and The Orange Prize.
 
Washington Post journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran`s first book, IMPERIAL LIFE OF THE EMERALD CITY, is an account of life in the Green Zone in Baghdad in aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. A clear-headed and at times horrifyingly funny insight into an ill-conceived attempt to nation-build, it won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2007.

C.J. Sansom`s DISSOLUTION is the first in a series of Tudor crime novels featuring the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake. James Naughtie called it 'as good a new thriller as I have come across for years', while PD James described it as 'remarkable.... The sights, the voices, the very smell of this turbulent age seem to rise from the page'.  Sansom has since written three bestselling sequels, as well as WINTER IN A MADRID, a standalone spy thriller set during the Spanish Civil War.

Posted on: Friday, November 13, 2009


Other current news items

Sarah Waters wins Writer of the Year at the Glamour Magazine Awards!
Posted on: Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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!
Posted on: Monday, July 19, 2010

Andrea Gillies has been shortlisted for the 2010 British Medical Association Awards
Posted on: Monday, July 19, 2010

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the Landshare initiative win prizes at the 2010 Guild of Food Writers Awards!
Posted on: Monday, June 21, 2010

The long-awaited sixth book in Jean Auel's Earth Children Series will be published in March 2011
Posted on: Thursday, June 17, 2010

Bill Bryson's eagerly anticipated new book is published, supported by an exciting publicity and marketing campaign
Posted on: Friday, May 28, 2010

Andrea Gillies' KEEPER has won this year's Orwell Prize for political writing
Posted on: Thursday, May 20, 2010

Congratulatons to Marcus Du Sautoy who has been awarded an OBE for services to Science
Posted on: Tuesday, January 05, 2010

 

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