Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Tue, 11/10/2011 - 08:40 Edmund de Waal's Costa-winning memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes (Vintage) has won the adult category of this year's Independent Booksellers' Book Prize 2011, beating competiton from authors including David Mitchell and Helen Dunmore. Puffin author Eoin Colfer won the children's category for the second time for Artemis Fowl and the Atlantic Complex, having won for Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox in 2009. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Union has accepted an offer from Apple and four major publishers to reduce pricing restrictions on content offered at Amazon and other book-sellers. After being caught out by the EU, we heard that the offer was likely to be adopted last month, and the commission has now confirmed... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The organisers of new book award the Literature Prize announce it has found a sponsor and will hand out its first accolade in 2014. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Literature Prize, the book prize founded by Aitken Alexander m.d. and agent Andrew Kidd, has... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus has won the Best of the Best James Tait Black Prize,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Terezin: A Story of the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson has won this year's £2,000 ALCS... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Erotic novelist EL James beats Kate Mosse and JoJo Moyes to win the National Book Awards popular fiction book of the year. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E L James has won the Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year with her erotica smash-hit... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Page, Faber c.e.o., has been named as the most inspiring digital publishing person at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has won this year's Golden PEN Award, worth £1,000. The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former soldier Kevin Powers has won the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award for novel The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Argentine publisher Adriana Hidalgo has won this year’s Publishing Merit Award at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, in recognition as Latin America’s most widely distributed independent publisher. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Kevin Powers wins the Guardian First Book Award for his 'unforgettable first novel' The Yellow Birds Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has been forced to pulp 6,000 copies of a novel after wrongly labelling it as the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An exposé of doping in professional cycling has won the William Hill Sports Book of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Mark Forsyth’s follow-up to last Christmas’ runaway hit The Etymologicon has been... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twenty-two independent bookshops have signed up to stock Kobo’s e-reader range, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers across the country are displaying “We Pay Our Taxes” posters in their... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quentin Blake has won the 2012 Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of outstanding commitment and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Erdrich's 'The Round House' wins for fiction and Boo's book chronicling life in a Mumbai slum wins for nonfiction. David Ferry wins for poetry and 'Goblin Secrets' wins Young People's Literature.Novelist Louise Erdrich and journalist Katherine Boo took the top prizes at the National Book Awards... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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EL James' best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey will compete with novels by Kate Mosse, JoJo Moyes and Bernard Cornwell at this year's National Book of the Year Awards. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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