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Waterstone's and Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival today announced the longlist for the fourth Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Now a firm date in the literary awards calendar, the longlist once again covers an exceptional mix of new and also more established writers covering styles from across the crime genre.
Female authors of historical fiction
dominate the long list of nominees for the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize
– a selection that will likely silence the grumbling that followed the
release of last year's long list, when only three of the 15 nominees
were women.
Sathnam Sanghera has won the Mind Awards Book of
the Year for
The Boy with the Topknot
A memoir of coming of age in
1980s Britain, it tells how, while balancing his life with the
expectations of his traditionalist Punjabi parents, his world changed
after a discovery about his family's mental health.
Translated fiction has enjoyed a huge boom in recent years, with the successes of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (trans. Lucia Graves) and Irène Némirovsky’s astonishing Suite Française (trans. Sandra Smith) which have both sold over a million copies worldwide.
A little while ago a group of newbooksactivists were involved in a project with Penguin. This was to improve the Reading Group Guide that appears at the back of some books. Well our clever activists gave their suggestions and Penguin took note, with the result that the paperback edition of Company of Liars by Karen Maitland has an excellent Reading Group Guide.
