My best read for 2009: Up West by Pip Granger

My best read for 2009 is Up West by Pip Granger:

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Foyles to stock e-readers, launches e-book store (UK)

"London independent Foyles is to stock e-readers for the first time as it launches its own e-book store. The Foyles London stores will stock the Sony Touch Edition and Pocket Edition, as well as the BeBook Mini, which has a five-inch screen, in-store and online. The Mini comes with 100 free classic titles. Foyles has also launched an e-book store on its website, stocking 57,000 titles in e-pub and pdf formats. The e-books will be supplied by Gardners which will set the prices, with percentage discounts offered on chosen titles by Foyles" The Bookseller
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2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award winner

"Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed has won the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The 'beautifully written' history of how central bankers' mistakes led to the Great Depression bowled over the judges and swept away a strong field of finalists to take the GBP30,000 prize. The prize was awarded on October 29 at a special dinner at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum"
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Katie Price launches her new book 'Standing Out'

Katie Price launches her new style guide 'Standing Out' at Selfridges in London, arriving with a male enoutourage dressed in drag


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John le Carre moves to Penguin

John le Carre moves from Hodder to Viking and Penguin with his next novel, due in 2010

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The CWA Dagger Awards 2009 (UK)

The Crime Writers' Association has announce the winners of these CWA Daggers:

William Brodrick wins the CWA Gold Dagger for A Whispered Name
John Hart wins the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for The Last Child
Johan Theorin wins the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Echoes from The Dead
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Video: Hilary Mantel on winning the 2009 Man Booker Prize

2009 Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel talks about her novel Wolf Hall and what the accolade means to her personally

Mal Peet wins 2009 Guardian children's fiction prize

A modern retelling of Othello, in which the Moor of Venice and his wife Desdemona are transformed into the South American equivalent of Posh and Becks, has won this year's Guardian children's fiction prize. Mal Peet's Exposure beat authors including Terry Pratchett to win the GBP1,500 prize. "It feels absolutely great – I've always had my eye on the Guardian prize but it's always evaded me," said Peet. "My books have never even made the shortlist before, and I'd always sit at home gnashing my teeth and tearing my hair."

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Booker prize goes to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall

"She was the bookies' favourite, the people's favourite and tonight Hilary Mantel became the judges' favourite as Wolf Hall, her vividly told tale of Tudor intrigue, emerged triumphant at the Man Booker prize" - Guardian


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Northern Children's Book Festival 2009 (UK)

The Northern Children's Book Festival is planned, organised and hosted by the library services of the participating Local Authorities in the north east of England - November 9-21, 2009. RSS Feed

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JK Rowling denied top US honour

"Harry Potter author JK Rowling missed out on a top honour because some US politicians believed she "encouraged witchcraft", it has been claimed. Matt Latimer, former speech writer for President George W Bush, said that some members of his administration believed her books promoted sorcery. As a result, she was never presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom" - BBC

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Philippa Gregory on her novel The White Queen

Philippa Gregory talks about her latest novel The White Queen
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