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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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Literary = Death?

I’m a few days late to this little story, which was flagged to me by BookBrunch, but at the weekend Michael Holroyd wrote a short piece in The Guardian about whether or not bookshops are killing off the literary biography.
… towards the end of last year there was a meeting of writers and Waterstone’s staff [...]

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March 24, 2009 by Kirsty in auto/biography, news & media
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