The Guardian Unlimited writes - "Happy new years - financially speaking, at least - are in the offing for the 10 authors who found out today that they have been chosen by daytime TV supremos Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for the couple's 2008 Book Club". The list:
Blood River by Tim Butcher
A Quiet Belief In Angels by RJ Ellory
Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
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- My best read for 2009: Up West by Pip Granger
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- 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Bo...
- Katie Price launches her new book 'Standing Out'
- John le Carre moves to Penguin
- The CWA Dagger Awards 2009 (UK)
- Video: Hilary Mantel on winning the 2009 Man Booke...
- Mal Peet wins 2009 Guardian children's fiction pri...
- Booker prize goes to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall
- Northern Children's Book Festival 2009 (UK)
- JK Rowling denied top US honour
- Philippa Gregory on her novel The White Queen
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- Ian Rankin opens Edinburgh University library upgr...
- Tony Harrison wins inaugural PEN/Pinter prize
- 2009 Booktrust Early Years Awards winners
- Frank O'Connor Award winner is Simon Van Booy
- New book: The UFO Files - from UK National Archive...
- The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book...
- The Bookseller Retail Awards 2009 winners
- The Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2009 shortlists announc...
- Man Booker Prize 2009 Shortlist announced
- Liverpool Reads (UK)
- New HSE Books website (UK)
- Pan Macmillan celebrates 30 years of The Hitchhike...
- UK publisher Marion Boyars driven out of business
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- Alice Munro wins 2009 Man Booker International Pri...
- Royal Society Prize for Science Books shortlist
- Oxfam Bookfest 2009
- John Berger to donate archive to British Library
- The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 winner
- Vintage to publish new Man Booker Prize editions
- 2009 Scottish Book of the Year winner
- British Book Industry Awards 2009 winners
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About Me
- Peter Scott
- Born February 14, 1947, in Walthamstow and moved to Canada in 1976. Creator of HYTELNET (1991), the first electronic browser for Internet resources. Blues singer and harmonica player. Won a Juno Award for having my song "TV Preacher" on "Saturday Night Blues" which won "Best Roots and Traditional Music Album" in 1992. Listen to the song, as recorded by Big Dave McLean (in RealAudio). This song was also recorded by Vaan Shaw, for his album "Morning Rain" (Wolf 1992). Written articles, book reviews, and chapters for Internet-related books and magazines. Publisher of Peter Scott's Library Blog; allrecordlabels.com; Weblogs Compendium