Wellcome Trust Book Prize

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize is open to outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine. The GBP25,000 annual award, created by the Wellcome Trust, is the first of its kind to bring together the traditionally diverse fields of medicine and literature
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Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 winner

Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 winner is Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger

An Evening with Colin Dexter

Colin Dexter, the man behind the phenomenally successful series of Inspector Morse novels, presents From Books to Box, an entertaining one-man show in which he explains the trials and tribulations involved in transforming full-length novels into 90-minute screen dramas, many of which starred the much-loved Manchester actor John Thaw. Sunday, 16th November at 7.30pm in Manchester, UK
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Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Academic is a radically new scholarly imprint launched in September 2008. Bloomsbury Academic will begin publishing monographs in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences. While respecting the traditional disciplines we will seek to build innovative lists on a thematic basis, on issues of particular relevance to the world today. Publications will be available on the Web free of charge and will carry Creative Commons licences. Simultaneously physical books will be produced and sold around the world
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2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist announced

The judges for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for this year's prize. The longlist of 13 books, often referred to as the 'Man Booker Dozen', was chosen from 112 entries; 103 were submitted for the prize and nine were called in by the judges.

The titles are:

Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
Gaynor Arnold: Girl in a Blue Dress
Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture
John Berger: From A to X
Michelle de Kretser: The Lost Dog
Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant: The Clothes on Their Backs
Mohammed Hanif: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Philip Hensher: The Northern Clemency
Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence
Tom Rob Smith: Child 44
Steve Toltz: A Fraction of the Whole

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The Costa Book Club

"The Costa Book Club features a monthly book review from a range of top literary personalities including former Costa Book Awards judges and shortlisted and winning authors, of their favourite book or a book they have recently read and enjoyed"
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Luke Bitmead Writer's Bursary 2008 winner announced

Unpublished author Andrew Blackman, from North London, has been announced as the winner of the 2008 Luke Bitmead Writer's Bursary and was awarded GBP2,500 as well as a publishing contract with Legend Press for his novel On the Holloway Road
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