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Category Archives: Book Prizes
Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction – Longlist (and shortlist) 2016
Everything But The Girl takes on The Apprentice! It’s a pretty stellar judging panel over at the Baileys awards this year, with Margaret Mountford, Elif Shafak and Tracey Thorn taking to centre stage. Every year this prize just keeps on getting … Continue reading
Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction Best of the Decade OR “What a blinkin’ performance!”
It took an imminently expiring passport (you know that sinking “how did you let this happen” feeling?) and a belligerent bloke at the British Consulate here in Paree – “Désolé, Madame, mais le système a changé…” – to force a welcome … Continue reading
The Costa Book Awards 2015 Shortlist
Nothing like a good cup of strong, hot coffee and a new set of books jostling for a British award, eh. The Costa Book Awards have been going since the early 1970s and will announce this new year’s Category Winners … Continue reading
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Tagged A God in Ruins, A Place Called Winter, Costa Book of the Year, Costa Prize, Kate Atkinson, Patrick Gale
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The Man Booker Prize 2015 Longlist has been announced!
The race is on: the international Prize’s Baker’s Dozen of contenders has been whittled down from its original list of 156 to just 13 titles. The shortlist will be mid September, with the grand finale winner divulged a month later. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Enright, Anne Tyler, The Man Booker Prize
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The Man Booker Prize and 2015 winner of the Man Booker International Prize
The Booker Prize, traditionally awarded for the best original novel written in English and published in the UK, is undisputedly one the most important fictional literary gongs going. As Wikipedia informs us, it is “greeted with great anticipation and fanfare… … Continue reading
Wellcome Trust Book Prize – winner announced 28th April 2015, and “The Iceberg: A Memoir” by Marion Coutts (2014) – book review
The 2015 winner of the perhaps not so well known “Wellcome Book Prize” has just been announced from its shortlist. Established all the way back in 1936, the Trust is the UK’s largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Gillies, Bill Bryson, book review, books, Do No Harm, Henry Marsh, Keeper: Living with Nancy, Marion Coutts, Mark Haddon, Rebecca Skloot, The Guardian, The Iceberg: A Memoir, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Observer, Tom Lubbock, Wellcome Book Prize
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Pulitzer Prize 2015 – announced today 20th April
Last year the goose with the genuinely golden egg was “The Goldfinch”; just today the American prize has gone to Anthony Doerr for the greatly acclaimed “All The Light We Cannot See”, set in World War II and moving from … Continue reading
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Tagged All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, books, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the goldfinch
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