Thursday, 19th March 2009
Anna Lavelles has won the 2009 Book Video Award for her 'innovative and gripping' book video trailer of My Sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson. A student of the National...
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Wednesday, 18th March 2009
The top prize at the British Sports Book Awards , for Best Autobiography, has been won by Paul Canoville (above) for Black and Blue (Headline). Canoville's book tells,...
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Tuesday, 17th March 2009
The titles long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction have been announced. The authors range from Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison to Gaynor Arnold, a 63-year-old...
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Monday, 16th March 2009
The third annual Muslim Writers Awards are to take place on 27 May at the Hilton Hotel on London's Park Lane. Launched in 2007 by Innovate Arts CIC, which was established...
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Monday, 16th March 2009
Independent publishers have triumphed at the Andre Simon Book Awards for food and drink books. The food book winner was Cooking and Dining in Medieval Britain by Peter...
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Monday, 16th March 2009
Author and journalist Candida Lycett Green is to chair the judging panel for the second annual Desmond Elliott Prize, awarded for the first time last year to Nikita...
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Monday, 16th March 2009
Egypt's Youssef Ziedan has won the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) with his novel Beelzebub , published by Dar al Shorouk, Cairo, in 2008. The...
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Thursday, 12th March 2009
Stieg Larsson, author of the Millennium trilogy, is to be commemorated with an annual prize. Long a campaigning journalist, Larsson (who died in 2004) was in 1995 a...
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Thursday, 12th March 2009
Jumpa Lahiri has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Europe and South Asia region with Unaccustomed Earth (Bloomsbury). The Best First Book Prize for the region...
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