Category Archives: Book awards

The Costa Book Awards shortlists for 2010 were announced last night. The awards are split into five categories: Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry, and Children’s Book: 2010 Costa Novel Award shortlist Whatever you love by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber) The … Continue reading →

A slightly unexpected win for Howard Jacobson’s ‘comic novel’ The Finkler Question was announced at last night’s Man Booker awards dinner at London’s Guildhall. Up to now it had been an unwritten law that a humourous book would never win the Booker. Apparently, Jacobson … Continue reading →

The six shortlisted books for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 are: Parrot and Oliver in America by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber) [review][extract] Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador) [review][extract] In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic) [review][extract] … Continue reading →

The now traditional ‘Booker dozen’ (ie thirteen books) have been selected for this year’s longlist for one of the world’s most presitgious literary fiction awards, The Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Publishers submitted a total of 124 books for consideration and … Continue reading →

The winner of this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction is Barbara Kingsolver for her novel The Lacuna. Also announced, but largely ignored in the press, was the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers: Irene Sabatini for The Boy Next Door. … Continue reading →

 The Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 longlist was released recently. Out of a total of 129 books entered the following 20 books were chosen: Rosie Alison The Very Thought of You (Alma Books) Eleanor Catton The Rehearsal (Granta) Clare Clark Savage Lands (Harvill … Continue reading →

Christopher Reid has won the overall Costa Book of the Year Award for his collection of poems, A scattering. The poems were written during his wife’s death from brain tumour; they are said to be ‘unbearably emotional’. Josephine Hart, a novelist and one of the judges, … Continue reading →

The following books were yesterday shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Book Awards: Novel Penelope Lively - Family Album (Fig Tree) Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate) Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper (Fourth Estate) Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn (Viking) First Novel Rachel Heath … Continue reading →

The winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 was announced yesterday evening: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. The judges were not unanimous and, according to The Times, Mantel won in a secret ballot by three votes to two. But … Continue reading →

The now traditional ‘Booker dozen’ longlist (that’s 13 titles) for 2009 was announced on 28 July. One of these titles will be chosen to win this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The 13 books picked for the longlist are: The children’s … Continue reading →

The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009 shortlist was announced a couple of weeks ago. There were 166 entries in total. Nineteen titles were longlisted including two books by leading Cambridge academics: Pompeii by Mary Beard (Profile Books) and Science: … Continue reading →

The winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, a women only literature award, was announced last week:  Home by American writer Marilynne Robinson (a unanimous choice of the judges). Home is Robinson’s third novel, her previous novels being award-winning Housekeeping (1980) and … Continue reading →

The following six books have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 award, open to women writing in English: Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman, 67, American, 3rd novel, about a journalist’s fight to save nine black youths from the electric chair in … Continue reading →