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Christopher Reid wins Costa Book Prize

Well that was a bit of a shocker – Colm Toibin was the odds on favourite to take home the overall Costa Book Prize last night, but it went instead to Christopher Reid for his poetry collection A Scattering. Very many congratulations to him!

Although I haven’t read the collection – and indeed, I don’t read [...]

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January 27, 2010 by Kirsty in book news, poetry, prizes
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Costa Book of the Year Shortlist 2009

The winners for each individual cateogory of the Costa Prize have been announced. All of these books now become the shortlist for the overal Costa Book of the Year prize, which will be announced on 26 January.
Novel of the Year Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
First Novel of the Year Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
Poetry Book of the [...]

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January 5, 2010 by Kirsty in prizes
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The 2009 Costa Shortlists

The 2009 Costa Prize shortlists are now out, and what everyone’s asking is will Hilary Mantel make it a Booker/Costa double? I can already see that my loyalties will be torn as my new favourite novelist Penelope Lively is up against Ms. Mantel.
Costa Novel Award

Family Album by Penelope Lively
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Elephant Keeper [...]

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November 25, 2009 by Kirsty in auto/biography, fiction, prizes
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Giveaway: The Little Stranger and Summertime

After a small falling-out with DHL I’ve finally taken delivery of my bargainous Booker Shortlist parcel from The Book People. The joy of having snagged all six hardbacks for £35 is enough to soothe the after effects of trying to find out whether the box was in the depot or on the van or arriving [...]

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October 15, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, prizes
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Book News Round-up

Reaction to Hilary Mantel winning the Booker:

Video of Mantel talking about Wolf Hall
Did the right woman win?
Rescusing the Tudor court from cliche
“I have no inclination to read a book set in Tudor England.”

Today is National Poetry Day:

TS Eliot is the Nation’s Favourite Poet, apparently. I can assure you he isn’t mine.
The blog of a Forward [...]

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October 8, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, news & media, poetry, prizes
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And the Booker Prize goes to…

Congratulations to Hilary Mantel and her novel Wolf Hall, which scooped the Booker gong last night. Despite not having read this yet, I really am delighted that she won. I’m really looking forward to reading this: historical fiction is very much up my street, and I’ve only been encouraged by all the reviews I’ve read.
Also, [...]

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October 7, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, prizes
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The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters (2009)

This book was always going to have a mountain of expectation heaped upon it. Quite aside from her status in the literary world, I adored her first four novels. I first discovered her when she was shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize for Fingersmith, and since I worked in a bookshop at the time, I [...]

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October 5, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, prizes, review
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The Quickening Maze on OUPblog

As you may or may not know, as part of my day job I contribute posts to OUPblog, and if you haven’t already got that on your RSS readers, then I demand to know why not.
ANYWAY, today’s post is a bit of a favourite of mine, so I thought I would mention it here as [...]

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October 1, 2009 by Kirsty in blogs, fiction, prizes
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The Booker Prize Shortlist 2009

Drumroll please… here’s the official shortlist for the Booker Prize 2009.

The Children’s Book – AS Byatt
Summertime – JM Coetzee
The Quickening Maze – Adam Foulds
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters

Chair James Naughtie, comments:
“We’re thrilled to be able to announce such a strong shortlist, so enticing that it [...]

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September 8, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, news & media, prizes
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Recent Acquisitions

I’ve given up apologising for the lack of content. You all know the score. Full time work. Dissertation. Due end of September. Blah blah. But I did want to tell you about the latest literary arrivals in Other Stories Mansions.
I spent most of last week at the Edinburgh Book Festival, which is always a treat, [...]

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August 24, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, places, prizes
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