Sunday, May 11, 2008

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CrimeFest 2008

"Following the success of the one-off visit to Bristol in 2006 of the American Left Coast Crime convention, the organisers are putting on a new biennial international event called CrimeFest. CrimeFest will follow the format of US conventions, featuring interviews, panels, a Gala Dinner, and possibly one or two surprises. Our 2008 Featured Guest Authors are Karin Fossum and Ian Rankin" - 5-8 June 2008 - Bristol, UK
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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announced

This year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the UK's leading award for contemporary literature in translation, has been won by the Belgian-born scientist and novelist Paul Verhaeghen for his novel Omega Minor. The author, a cognitive psychologist who has worked in the US since 1997 and now teaches in Georgia, translated his epic of Nazi-era Berlin, atomic research and the long aftermath of the Third Reich into English from the Dutch original. So he stood to collect the entire prize money of GBP10,000, which is usually divided between author and translator
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2008 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize winner announced

The 2008 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize has been awarded to Clare Alexander. The prize commemorates the life and career of Kim Scott Walwyn, who was a Publishing Director at Oxford University Press
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Foyle bids for Charing Cross Road neighbour

Foyles could tighten its grip on London's Charing Cross Road after the independent bookseller's chairman Christopher Foyle bought the building next door. Foyle's investment company Noved acquired the site of 111 Charing Cross Road for an undisclosed sum. 107–111 Charing Cross Road, approximately 115,000 sq ft, is currently the home of Central St Martins School of Art. The school will move to a new site in 2011, and Foyle said Noved was also bidding for 107 and 109. - From The Bookseller
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Children's 'Booker' mooted

Children's publishers are investigating the creation of a "children's Booker" award to replace the Nestlé Children's Book Prize, which ceased in January when Nestlé's sponsorship ended. A working party has been set up by the Publishers Association's Children's Book Group to investigate how best to establish "a really wonderful, high-profile children's book award", according to Puffin m.d. Francesca Dow - From The Bookseller
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Tesco sets GBP200m book sale target

Tesco has unveiled ambitious plans to almost double its book sales in three years to GBP200m, and is also moving to challenge Amazon online. "We are looking to match or better Amazon.co.uk on our key 5,000 lines by summer 2008," said buying manager for books Gaynor Allen. "If we had the same market share on Tesco.com as we did instore, we would have sold GBP26m worth of books last year instead of GBP3.5m. The current model doesn't deliver to its full potential." - From The Bookseller
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Thursday, May 1, 2008

Sebastian Faulks and the Writer's Table

"The Writer's Table is a major promotion at the forefront of The Writer's Year, Waterstone's calendar of monthly initiatives and activities designed to highlight the role of the author. Sebastian Faulks, whose highly anticipated James Bond novel Devil May Care is published at the end of May, has been given an entirely free rein in choosing every single title in the promotion - any book, any author, any subject, so long as the titles were in print in the UK. Faulks has also written about why he chose each book in his selection"
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