Secret Race takes William Hill prize

An exposé of doping in professional cycling has won the William Hill Sports Book of the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Secret Race takes William Hill prize

An exposé of doping in professional cycling has won the William Hill Sports Book of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Max Nelson wins £20k Notting Hill Essay Prize

The winning essayist of the third £20k Notting Hill Essay Prize is William Max Nelson for his essay "Five Ways of Being a Painting".  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Joey Barton autobiography longlisted for William Hill sports book prize

An autobiography by "one of football's most controversial figures", Joey Barton, has been longlisted for the 2016 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Hill prize 2015 shortlist revealed

A story about a bobsledding team in the 1932 Winter Olympics, three football titles, one cricket and one boxing book compete for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. The shortlist features debut book Speed Kings by Andy Bull (Bantam Press) – which marks the first book about... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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William Hill prize 2015 longlist revealed

Fourteen books including one on the trial of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, and another on the recent FIFA scandals make up the longlist of the 27th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ronald Reng wins William Hill prize

Ronald Reng’s biography of Robert Enke, the German national goalkeeper who took his own... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yepoka Yeebo takes home 2024 Jhalak prize for writers of colour

Author of Anansi’s Gold, a nonfiction account of a notorious Ghanian conman ‘told with biting wit’, wins £1,000 awardYepoka Yeebo has won the 2024 Jhalak prize for her nonfiction book about a Ghanaian con artist.Anansi’s Gold is an “exhilarating journey” through the life and “almost... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2024-05-30 18:30:16 UTC ]
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William Beecher, Who Revealed Secret Cambodia Bombing, Dies at 90

His New York Times scoop enraged the Nixon White House, which ordered a tap on his phone. He later won a Pulitzer Prize for The Boston Globe. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2024-02-19 01:18:36 UTC ]
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Fatimah Asghar takes the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

The “richest literary prize in the world for women and non-binary writers,” The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, announced its first winner over night at an event at Parnassus Books. Please have a glass in hand … Fatimah Asghar, author of When We Were Sisters, published by One World/Random... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-05-05 13:34:53 UTC ]
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Dead Ink wins Republic of Consciousness prize with Missouri Williams’s ‘astonishing’ debut

The award, championing small presses with fewer than five staff, was won by The Doloriad – an audaciously original novel set in a post-apocalyptic dystopiaDead Ink Books has won the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses for Missouri Williams’s “astonishing” debut novel The Doloriad.... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2023-04-26 08:35:38 UTC ]
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Lucinda Williams Tells Her Secrets

The singer-songwriter reveals herself in a memoir that captures her adventures with charming rogues, puzzled music executives and her own demons. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2023-04-14 16:18:11 UTC ]
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Carty-Williams and Halls named in Women's Prize under-35 spotlight

The Women’s Prize and Good Housekeeping have unveiled their 10 most promising female authors under 35 including Candice Carty-Williams, Stacey Halls, Abigail Dean and Chibundu Onuzo.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-30 17:01:54 UTC ]
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Williams takes University of Wales Press into second century with ambitious plans

The University of Wales Press, which is gearing up to toast its centenary in 2022, has two titles celebrating the landmark and plans to launch a ‘start-up’ from within its operations. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 05:37:28 UTC ]
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Hill, Lofti and Siegert win inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize

Kaycee Hill, Marjorie Lotfi and Yvette Siegert have won the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize for young or emerging Black and minority ethnic poets. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 17:18:52 UTC ]
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Holding and Burrow shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year

Michael Holding and Rob Burrow feature in the shortlist for this year's £30,000 prize for William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-27 16:44:38 UTC ]
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Cundill History Prize shortlist 'shines light' on race and empire

The eight shortlisted books for this year's Cundill History Prize shine a light on race, class, empire, revolution and memory, showing "the range and insight of current history writing". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 10:34:54 UTC ]
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William Collins scores two on £25k British Academy Book Prize shortlist

The shortlist for the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding has been revealed with William Collins titles making up half the nominated books.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-06 23:47:10 UTC ]
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Deal takes 2021 Moth Short Story Prize

American writer Janice Deal’s “Lost City” has won the Moth Short Story Prize 2021, judged by Ali Smith, while Stratford-upon-Avon butcher Kathy Stevens has scooped second prize.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-01 16:38:23 UTC ]
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Joy Williams has won the 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

Today, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced that Joy Williams will receive the 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, which honors an American writer whose body of work is distinguished for both its mastery and originality of thought and imagination. Williams, a previous... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-06-30 17:19:46 UTC ]
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Springboard: Ian Williams, Every Breath You Take

Advertorial content "China is always changing. I did a fair amount of re-writing over last summer, simply because so much was happening,” Ian Williams says via video call from his home in London, where he spent much of the lockdown working on his first non-fiction book, Every Breath You Take:... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-08 15:25:16 UTC ]
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