Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 24/06/2011 - 08:39 Anjali Joseph has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for her "faultlessly written" novel Saraswati Park. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Cordelia Fine has won The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, worth £25,000, for her “provocative” book about gender which “debunks” the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus concept and poses an “urgent call for change”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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David Olusoga has won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017 for Black and British: A Forgotten History (Macmillan). Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Patrice Lawrence has won The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize 2017 for her “accomplished” and “page-turning” début novel, contemporary urban thriller Orangeboy (Hodder Children’s Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Yelena Moskovich has won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize 2016/17 for “Marlena or Number 16”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Victorian murder mystery The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge is named Costa Book of the Year - only the second children's novel to win in the prize's history. Continue reading at BBC News
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Three female authors will compete for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2015. All three authors shortlisted for this year’s £10,000 award, which is for debut novels, are published by Penguin Random House. Emma Healey is shortlisted for Elizabeth is Missing (Viking), Carys Bray for A Song for Issy... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Jessie Burton’s [pictured] novel The Miniaturist (Picador) and Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing (Viking) are among 10 novels longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015. The award celebrates the best debut fiction of the year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Author Louise Doughty is to chair the judging panel of the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize. Joining her will be writer and comedian Viv Groskop, and Jonathan Ruppin of Foyles. The £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize is for the year’s best debut novel. The 2014 winner was Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Debut novelist Amy Mason, who dropped out of school at 16 and took up writing at 25, wins the Dundee International Book Prize. Continue reading at BBC News
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Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is one of the three debut novels, all from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Ros Barber's novel in verse The Marlowe Papers (Sceptre) has been named as the winner of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The American novelist A M Homes has won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction for her... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hachette has two novels on the three-strong shortlist for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Big bestseller Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson (Doubleday) and a novel from small Welsh... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Cooking with Poo, a Thai cookbook penned by Bangkok resident Saiyuud Diwong and published in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Authors Ross Raisin, Michele Roberts and Anjali Joseph will take their place alongside BBC London... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publication Date: Wed, 06/07/2011 - 20:00 Academic Frank Dikötter has won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011 for his meticulous account of a brutal manmade calamity, Maos Great Famine (Bloomsbury). The announcement was made by chair of the judges, Ben Macintyre, at an awards... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Publication Date: Tue, 19/04/2011 - 08:41 Nikesh Shukla's Costa-nominated Coconut Unlimited has been longlisted for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize 2011, the award for a first novel published in the UK. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 08/04/2011 - 10:47 Faber has acquired the latest novel from British author Peter Hobbs, whose début scooped a Betty Trask Prize. Editorial director Lee Brackstone bought world English language rights to In The Orchard, The Swallows through... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The McIlvanney Prize and the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel of the Year award will go ahead this year as planned, sponsored for the first time by Glencairn Glass. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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