Women’s Prize For Fiction 2013: Longlist announced
Formerly known as the Orange Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction returns this year with a longlist of familiar names and rising talent.
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Formerly known as the Orange Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction returns this year with a longlist of familiar names and rising talent.
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Beyond Bagels and Nazis – Sam Leith on the Jewish Quartely-Wingate Prize 2013
This week is Jewish Book Week, and sees the announcement of the Jewish Quartely-Wingate Prize 2013. Journalist and author of The Coincidence Engine, Sam Leith, looks at the rich breadth of the Prize's scope, and why this makes for such an interesting and diverse shortlist...
Read more Costa Book of the Year 2012 – Hilary Mantel does the double
Hilary Mantel has set another record by becoming the first writer to win both the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book of the Year in the same year. Read more What the Papers Said – the weekend’s most reviewed books
Welcome to the Waterstones blog's weekly round-up of the weekend's reviewed books. Each week we'll be looking at what's been covered in the broadsheet review pages, from the wilfully obscure to the latest bestsellers, and highlighting any gems that you may have missed, as well as picking out the weekend's most high-profile book.
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Mantel favourite as women writers sweep the board at the Costa Awards
Hilary Mantel is the firm favourite to become the overall winner of the 2012 Costa Book Award, after Bring up the Bodies won the Novel category last night.
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“Pure, visceral joy” Francesca Segal
Costa First Novel Award nominee Francesca Segal tells us about the very moment she learned she had been shortlisted for her novel The Innocents...
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Hilary Mantel is nominated yet again as Bring up the Bodies heads the list for the Costa Novel Award. Meanwhile, Waterstones Book of the Year nominee Artemis Cooper's Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure is listed for the Biography Award.
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