The Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories – First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book – with one of the five winners chosen as Book of the Year, announced at an awards ceremony in London every January.
2016 winners are Continue reading
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Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2017 Indie Book Awards.
The longlisted titles in each category are:
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The winners of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced. They provide Australians a diverse range of reading genres.
Fiction (joint winners)
The Man Booker has announced its 2016 winner today. Selected from 6 shortlisted authors, Paul Beatty‘s The sellout has won this year’s The Man Booker Prize, the first American writer to win the Man Booker prize, for a caustic satire on US racial politics that judges said put him up there with Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift.
From the judging panel:
“The Sellout is one of those very rare books: which is able to take satire, which is a very difficult subject and not always done well, and plunges it into the heart of contemporary American society with a savage wit of the kind I haven’t seen since Swift or Twain.” Continue reading