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Jan 04 2012: The category award winners for the 2011 Costa Book Awards (formerly Whitbread Awards), which honor books by writers in the U.K. and Ireland, include:
Novel: Pure by Andrew Miller
First novel: Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson
Biography: Now All Roads Leads ...
Jan 03 2012: Walter Dean Myers named today as the USA's national ambassador for young people’s literature. The third person to hold the post since it was created in 2008. Mr Myers' books chronicle the lives of many urban teenagers, especially young, poor African-Americans. He ...
Jan 03 2012: Apple is going to be holding an exclusive event in New York city later this month. Some believe this will be to launch a new program for their iBooks and Publishing platform with some sources reporting that the event will announce the launch of a new digital self-...
Dec 23 2011: Journalist Caitlin Moran's take on modern feminism How to Be A Woman has won the UK's Galaxy Book of the Year. Moran's book beat 10 other contenders chosen by industry experts to be crowned the overall winner by a public vote. It will be published in the USA in May ...
Dec 16 2011: The writer and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62 after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in June 2010.
According to the Guardian, the reactions to his illness from his intellectual opponents testified to his stature as one of the ...
Dec 14 2011: Anger among retailers over Amazon's price check promotion continues to rise. The app incentivizes consumers to use their local retailers as showrooms and then buy the same product at Amazon at a discounted rate.
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R.-Maine) called for Amazon to ...
Dec 14 2011: The Kindle Fire, Amazon’s heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users. Complaints include that there is no external volume control and the off switch is easy to hit by accident. Also there is no external volume control. The off ...
Dec 14 2011: The list of 30 books that will be offered on World Book Night USA has just been released. If you are a USA resident aged 16 or over and would like to give away books, go to www.us.worldbooknight.org and complete the form which asks, simply, which book you want to ...
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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