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by Roxana Robinson
'Roxana Robinson brings chillingly to life a family showing us how - like a luminous yet ominous landscape - their tangible visible world can coincide with the invisible, tumultuous world of their emotions.'
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Dara Horn
In two separate interviews Dara Horn discusses her 2009 novel All Other Nights, set during the American Civil War; and her 2006 novel, The World To Come, about the artist Marc Chagall.
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Lisa See
In two separate interviews, Lisa See talks about Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009).
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Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley discusses his first novel, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - the first of six planned books set in England in the 1950s to feature 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce.
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Wendy Moore
Wendy Moore explains how she came to write Wedlock, the
true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, who at age 11 became the richest heiress in 18th Century England only to stumble headlong into an abusive marriage and scandal following her first husband's early death.
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Award-winning books of major literary awards, with links to more complete information at BookBrowse. |
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Each year literary foundations, trusts, and other famous organisations award prizes for the best recent books. Current winners are listed below, as well as links to previous winners.
BookBrowse monitors these major awards:
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Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music
Man Booker Prize
The John Newbery Medal
National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Awards
Costa Book Awards
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Since 2000, BookBrowse has asked its members and subscribers to select the best books published each year. Through a rigorous voting process, this shortlist is then honed down to the find the BookBrowse Awards Winners. |
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| Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music |
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Joseph Pulitzer, a renowned journalist, established this award in 1917. Since 1984 Pulitzer winners have received their prizes from the president of Columbia University at a luncheon in May in the rotunda of the Low Library in the presence of family members, professional associates, board members, and the faculty of the School of Journalism. |
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| Man Booker Prize |
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Awarded in October each year, the Man Booker Prize is the UK's top literary prize and the most watched single-book award in the English-speaking world. |
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| The John Newbery Medal |
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The Newbery Medal is awarded in January each year by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award |
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Each March, the NBCC present awards for the finest books and reviews published in English (in the USA) the previous year in six categories: Fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry. |
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| National Book Awards |
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First awarded in 1950, the National Book Awards recognize the best of American literature. The Awards are announced in April. |
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The Costas are the UK's most prestigious book awards. Established by Whitbread Plc in 1971 and known as the Whitbread Awards, they were rebranded the Costa Awards in 2006. Costa is a UK based coffee shop chain owned by Whitbread Plc. The five category winners (First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book) are announced in early January, honoring books published the previous year. The Costa Book of the Year Award is announced in late January. |
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| Editor's Choice |
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The Bellini Madonna
Elizabeth Lowry |
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Thomas Lynch was once a brilliant young art historian. Now he is a disgraced, middle-aged art historian, overly fond of the bottle and of his fresh young students. But everything will change now that he’s on the trail of a lost masterpiece. |
Censoring an Iranian Love Story
Shahriar Mandanipour |
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From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English—a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today’s Iran. |
Sunnyside
Glen David Gold |
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A novel with Charlie Chaplin at its center, capturing the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity. |
Halfway to Heaven
Mark Obmascik |
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When Mark Obmascik's twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug, he can't resist the opportunity for some father-son bonding. But after their first joint climb, Obmascik decides to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains - and to do them in less than one year. |
Havana Fever
Leonardo Padura |
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Mario Conde, retired from the police force, now makes a living trading antique books. In a book, Conde discovers a newspaper article about a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950’s, who disappeared mysteriously. Conde’s intuition sets him off on an investigation into the murder. |
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The Great Stink by Clare Clark |
| A bit hard to get into, but once in, it was even more difficult to get out and put it down. A very interesting look into the deeper parts of ...
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You Are Here by Christopher Potter |
| As a physicist of old, this book is a revelation as it maneuvers so easily between many technical subjects - in fact it reminds me of Peter Watson's ...
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Museum of Human Beings by Colin Sargent |
| In Museum of Human Beings, author Colin Sargent focuses on the life of a relatively little known character associated with one of the most famous ...
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