Brown's 'joyous' Beatles biography wins Baillie Gifford Prize

Craig Brown has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his “joyous” One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Fourth Estate), which judges said “reinvented the art of biography”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 18:12:59 UTC ]
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Pulitzer Prize: huge sales neither required nor guaranteed

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Szirtes wins poetry award

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Reagan Arthur Takes Over at Little, Brown

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Aurum signs Clementine Churchill biography

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Sandstone longlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize

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Tor wins auction for Peek trilogy

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Argosy's Richmond wins bookselling award

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African fiction prize chooses longlist

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Transworld wins Red Notice

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