This was reported in The Guardian today:
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan have confirmed they are moving to digital channel UKTV and look likely to sever all ties with former employer Channel 4.
After seven years on Channel 4, the pair are leaving and taking their chatshow with them, lock stock and barrel.
When Channel 4 announced last [...]

This today from the Times:
Those who questioned whether reading was high on the list of the singer Lily Allen’s recreations appeared to be vindicated yesterday when the organisers of the £30,000 Orange Prize for fiction admitted that they had dropped her from their panel of judges after she failed to turn up to meetings. [...]

New anthology edited by Kim Harrison, due for publication in paperback on June 24th 2008 (US)

Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Harper (June 24, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061161292
ISBN-13: 978-0061161292

Includes short stories by: Keri Arthur, LA Banks, Susan Krinard, Marjorie M Liu

May 2008
Publication: FROM DEAD TO WORSE, Ace. The eighth Sookie Stackhouse.
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the shortlist
Nancy Huston Fault Lines

Sol is a highly gifted but also scarily un-childlike six-year-old whose adoring mother believes is destined for greatness. He bears the same birthmark as his father, grandmother and great-grandfather before him. When Sol and his family make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets start to emerge.
Narrated by children from four [...]

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I was reading an interview this morning with Richard and Judy, no doubt because they were presenting the Galaxy British Book Awards on Channel 4 this afternoon, and it certainly made for interesting reading! I’ll get on to the Book Awards later but meanwhile get a load of this.
The Richard and Judy Book Club [...]

We have some great and very different books coming up for you in May.  Here they are:
From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris
The latest instalment in the Sookie Stackhouse series.  Join us and get all caught up before the TV Show starts this September!
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
One of the best mystery [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) Reports that literature is dead may be premature. While Americans may be reading less, more than one third of Americans still read more than 10 books in a typical year, according to a new survey.
But One in ten Americans do not read any books in a typical year, according to an [...]

2007 Bram Stoker Award Winners
[presented March 30, 2008]

Novel:
The Missing by Sarah Langan

First Novel:
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Long Fiction:
Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway by Gary Braunbeck

Short Fiction:
“The Gentle Brush of Wings ” by David Niall Wilson

Fiction Collection:
(Tie)
Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen
5 Stories by Peter Straub

Anthology:
Five Strokes to Midnight edited by [...]