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Man Booker Prize – the longlist

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 30th, 2006  
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The following books have all made it to the longlist for the Booker Prize this year.
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel by Kiran Desai
Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
Get a Life: A Novel by Nadine Gordimer
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland
Seven Lies: A [...]

The Whitbread Prize

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 29th, 2006  
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The award is chosen by the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, with funds provided by Whitbread Breweries. Authors must be resident of Great Britain or Ireland.
Best Novel Awards
2005
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
The Accidental by Ali Smith (winner)
2004
Case Histories by [...]

Quill Awards 2006

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 20th, 2006  
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Voting for the 2006 Quill Awards begins August 22.
For those who don’t know what the Quill Awards are:
The Quills, an initiative launched with the support of Reed Business Information, is designed to be an industry qualified “consumers choice” awards program for books, honoring the current titles readers deem most entertaining and enlightening.
The Quills celebrates the [...]

Book Group – September 2006

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 15th, 2006  
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Coming up in September:
Definitely dead – Charlaine Harris
Fistful of Charms – Kim Harrison
Proven Guilty – Jim Butcher
Our September hosts are Jerseygirl, Dalayna, and Draven
All three books are fantasy / urban fantasy and they are all part of series by some of our favourite authors. So please come along and join in the discussions!

Book Group of the Month Award

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 7th, 2006  
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Monday, 07 August 2006
Our Online Book Group just got selected to be Book Group of the Month on a Book Group Directory site in the UK. We got selected back in June but they don’t update the site again until August. I was really hoping we could be bgotm for July and then [...]