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Shewrites.com Unites Community For a Day Of Action to Protest Publishers Weeklys Exclusion of Women Writers on its 2009 Ten Best Books List

Shewrites.com Unites Community For a "Day Of Action" to Protest Publishers Weekly's Exclusion of Women Writers on its 2009 Ten Best Books List When Publishers Weekly, the American weekly trade news magazine for publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents, released its top ten books of 2009 and did not include a single book authored by a woman, the shot was heard 'round the world....

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Too much happiness

Widely regarded as one of the greatest living writers in the English language, Alice Munro has drawn comparisons to Joyce and Chekov. At 78, she remains remarkably, thankfully, prolific — this year, she was awarded the Man Booker Prize for her lifeti...

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Andrew Motion chair of judges for 2010 Man Booker

As widely reported, they've announced that poet Andrew Motion will chair the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010. The other judges will be revealed in early 2010.

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Former UK Poet Laureate to chair 2010 Man Booker jury

Sir Andrew Motion, former UK Poet Laureate, will serve as Chair of the judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, according to an annoncement November 18.

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Motion to chair 2010 Booker Prize

Sir Andrew Motion is to chair the judges for the prestigious Man Booker Prize next year, it is announced.

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Andrew Motion to chair Booker prize judges

Newly free from his duties as poet laureate, the poet will lead deliberations to find 2010's best novel Former poet laureate Andrew Motion will chair the judging panel for next year's Man Booker prize, following an eclectic roster of former chairs including Michael Portillo, PD James and Douglas Hurd. Philip Larkin, the subject of a prize-winning authorised biography by Motion, held the position in...

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Unsung premiere

Simon Mawer's reflective novel The Glass Room, shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and one of my reads of the year, digresses midway into a sub-story about a shortlived composer. Vitezlava Kapralova, born in 1915 in Janacek's town, Brno, was...

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David Mitchell hosts the 2009 Colman Getty...

David Mitchell hosts the 2009 Colman Getty PEN Quiz Monday 23 November 2009, 6pm-12pm At RIBA, Portland Place, London Tension will be high as London’s press and publishing giants rival for the ultimate trophy of the media year. The going will be tough but the night will be tinged with the comic genius of this year’s Quizmaster. David Mitchell joins a distinguished list of former Quizmasters...

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Sarah Waters in Haworth

A press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum : SARAH WATERS IN HAWORTH Novelist Sarah Waters will be making a visit to Haworth this month, to speak about her work as part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme. The talk takes place on Saturday 28 November at 6pm at the West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth , and is part of a special day of creative writing events...

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Chinese writer Su Tong wins Asia's top...

Chinese writer Su Tong wins Asia's top literary prize Tue Nov 17, 2009 By James Pomfret writing in Reuters HONG KONG, Nov 17 (Reuters Life!) - Chinese writer Su Tong has won Asia's top literary prize with a bleak novel about a disgraced Communist Party official's attempts to rebuild his life, trumping a clutch of Indian writers on the shortlist. Su's novel, " The Boat to Redemption " is about...

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100 books that defined the noughties Zadie...

100 books that defined the noughties Zadie, Nigella, Steig and, of course, the boy wizard. The decade has seen publishing phenomenons like no other, but which books, for better or worse, have summed up the noughties? by Brian MacArthur Published: The Telegraph, 13 Nov 2009 Never in the history of bookselling has there been such a phenomenon as Harry Potter; JK Rowling’s series sold in tens of...

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Writing Workshop with James Scudamore: Character and Setting

Writers Centre Norwich Saturday 5th December 2009 │10:00am – 16:00pm│£50 / £40 “The writing is exemplary: you feel the hand of a natural at work....” Praise for James Scudamore’s Heliopolis – The Guardian, 2009 Keen to avoid the Christmas madness and get some writing done? A creative writing workshop from Booker longlisted author James Scudamore,...

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Save ££s on the best book releases of 2009 with Amazon.co.uk

Daniel Shelton, we have recommendations for you . Get Unlimited Free One-Day Delivery Now! › Amazon Prime MP3 Deals of the Week See all departments Daniel Shelton, As you've bought or browsed in our Books Store recently, you might like to know that you can save ££s on the best book releases of 2009 . Discover the top 100 bestselling new releases of the year, plus our top 10 picks...

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Possession

A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession plays a part in the story-line of The Serpent Pool . It was a pleasure to give a nod to a book that I greatly admired when I first read it, not long after it won the Booker Prize (now the Man Booker Prize.) The novel is splendidly written, for sure, but it also tells a really good story – and there are some very well written books which don’t really do...

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New Yann Martel novel to drop in April

Yann Martel’s highly anticipated follow-up to the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi will drop in April, well ahead of the original release date in June. According to a press release from Martel’s Canadian publisher, Knopf Canada, Beatrice and Virgil will hit bookstores on April 6, a week before it goes on sale in the [...]