John Burnside's Black Cat Bone (Jonathan Cape) has won the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has won the Costa Poetry Award for The Bees (Picador), and debut... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist Caitlin Moran's take on modern feminism How to Be A Woman, published by Ebury, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Friday Project's Confessions of a GP has been crowned the top-selling UK ebook of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first annual literary prize of prizes has been awarded to Emmanuel Carrè... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Catherine Hall has beaten authors including Coim Tóibín and Jackie Kay to this year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet Alice Oswald has withdrawn her book Memorial (Faber) from the T S Eliot prize because of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Poet Alice Oswald has withdrawn her book Memorial (Faber) from the T S Eliot prize because of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The only non-fiction title shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award has taken home the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles on rugby, cycling, horse racing and Gaelic games have been shortlisted for this year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ronald Rengs biography of Robert Enke, the German national goalkeeper who took his own... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 08:05 Faber has acquired a title by debut author Eugen Ruge, winner of this year's German Book Prize. Editor Sarah Savitt bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the title, In Times of Fading Light, from Katie Dublinski at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 14/11/2011 - 08:15 Stephen Kelman's Pigeon English (Bloomsbury) has made the shortlist of the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award, equaling its achievement on the Man Booker Prize this year, with Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Fri, 11/11/2011 - 07:30 Return to Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan (Simon & Schuster Children's Books) has been awarded the Guardian Children's Book Award, beating off shortlisted titles including David Almond's My Name is Mina and Simon Mason's Moon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:40 Debut novelist Alice LaPLante has won the third Wellcome Trust Book Prize for her tale of a "brilliant mind in terminal decline". Turn of Mind (Harvill Secker) beat Philip Roth's Nemesis as well as titles by Sarah Manguso, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ann... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:50 Belfast-born author Lucy Caldwell has won the £30,000 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, beating Orange Prize-winner Téa Obreht. Caldwell's novel The Meeting Point (Faber) won over Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, as well as titles from Annabel Pitcher,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Tue, 08/11/2011 - 13:40 A book about feline pirates has claimed the bounty of an award at this years Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Cats Ahoy! by Peter Bently and illustrated by Jim Field (Macmillan Childrens Books) was awarded the prize for children aged six and under at todays... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Mon, 31/10/2011 - 11:46 Titles by Haruki Murakami and Amitav Ghosh have been longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize among 12 novels from countries spanning Japan, Iran, China and Bangladesh. Murakamis 1Q84 makes the list alongside Ghoshs River... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 08:30 Waterstone's is set to publish a print and ebook anthology to celebrate the shortlist for the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. The high street bookseller will publish the titles on 4th March next year, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 14:49 The Literature Prize is to be awarded in the spring of each year, with founder Andrew Kidd saying it will take place for the first time in 2012 if the necessary funding is secured by the end of this year. Kidd said the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]