Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It’s been a terrific year for Stuart Neville. Superb reviews of his debut novel, THE TWELVE (aka THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST); interviewing James Ellroy at the Belfast Waterfront; and last weekend – in case you missed it – a lovely write up from Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times , in which TGOB was the lead review. All of which is very nice indeed, but then Stuart is a very nice bloke...
The Complete Booker (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Hello Everyone, I am Veens and I blog at Giving... Reading A - Chance!!! I came to know about this site through S. Krishna's post on her Booker Reading Challenge post. And I thank her for that post. I immediately joined her and decided that this would be an interesting challenge. After failing in almost all the short-time challenges, I think the long term challenges [ with no time frame ] will work...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Mantel becomes first ever odds-on Booker favourite 06.10.09 Catherine Neilan The Bookseller Hilary Mantel is the "hottest favourite ever" to win the Man Booker Prize for her historical novel Wolf Hall , even though Simon Mawer has made a late burst. Mantel has led the pack since the shortlist was announced a month ago, but is now the first-ever odds-on favourite, with Labrokes taking bets...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The race for the Booker prize is opening up in the final furlongs with outsider Simon Mawer now second favourite to win A late run of support for Simon Mawer has sent the author shooting from outsider to second favourite in the race for the Booker prize, as judges prepare to decide on a winner this afternoon. The Glass Room author, who was given long odds of 14/1 to take the award by bookie William...
Home (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Nicolas Cheetham has paid a good five-figure sum for a two novels by award-winning UK writer Chris Beckett, for the Corvus imprint of Grove Atlantic. The deal was concluded with agent John Jarrold. The first book in this deal, THE HOLY MACHINE, will be published in 2010 – Corvus acquired World rights excluding the USA, where it has been published by Prime. The second novel is being discussed...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2009 Jonathan Ruppin from Foyles bookshop comments on the Man Booker shortlist announcement. “ Like last year’s panel, the judges this year seem to have identified strong storytelling as the primary criterion for selecting their list. Come the announcement of the winner on 6th October, it seems likely that bookshops will be promoting something very commercial...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 288 pages; 2009. The 2009 Booker shortlist gets announced this coming Tuesday, so I thought it was about time I reviewed one of the long-listed titles -- Ed O'Loughlin's Not Untrue & Not Unkind. I read it more than a month ago now but haven't been able to muster up enough will power to review it because, to be perfectly honest, I found this an incredibly disappointing...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Authors (from left) Sarah Webb, Claire Kilroy, Paul Howard and Anne Enright on Dún Laoghaire pier, Co Dublin, to announce details of the Mountains to Sea DLR Book Festival, which takes place from September 10th to 13th.
Emerging Writer (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
A new initiative from what has to be my favourite library group, dlr. When: 9th to 13th September What: Loads of talks and readings for adults and children. See the programme here . Including Barry McGovern reads Samuel Beckett One of the greatest Beckett actors, Barry McGovern, will read from a selection of the master's works. Pavilion Theatre 10/8 Euro 11th September @ 8pm First Fictions with Kevin...
Emerging Writer (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Faber are running an intensive course. For the money, would you be better to get a mentor or even do an MA or Open University? Join course directors, novelists James Ryan and Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, and special guest tutors including Joseph O’Connor, Claire Kilroy and Anne Enright, on a practical course for aspiring writers, designed to develop a wide range of novel writing skills. Course...
eglantine's cake (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
This is a meme. It came from Mark Lawrence , and Kirsty (what started it), and Genevieve . Encountering truth in fiction, the kind of truth that gives me a shiver, is one of the greatest pleasures of my existence. There are so few people given to us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at...
Alchemy Writers (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Chris Beckett's collection, The Turing Test, from Elastic Press, has won the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize, earning Chris a remarkable £5,000 cash prize. The judges said: "I suspect Chris Beckett winning the Edge Hill Prize will be seen as a surprise in the world of books. In fact, though, it was also a bit of surprise to the judges, none of whom knew they were science fiction...
Home (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Chris Beckett's collection, The Turing Test, from Elastic Press, has won the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize, earning Chris a remarkable £5,000 cash prize. The judges said: "I suspect Chris Beckett winning the Edge Hill Prize will be seen as a surprise in the world of books. In fact, though, it was also a bit of surprise to the judges, none of whom knew they were science fiction...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
c i Science-fiction writer Chris Beckett has won The Edge Hill Prize , awarded annually for a single author short story collection by Edge Hill University. Others on the shortlist included Booker winner Anne Enright and Whitbread winner Ali Smith. You can read an extract from Beckett's collection, The Turing Test here . Beckett says he was still pinching himself at the win, and added : I ... thought...
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
I’ve really got to get back into the habit of doing these things more regularly. Still: Chris Beckett has won the Edge Hill short story prize, beating collections by Anne Enright, Shena Mackay, Ali Smith and Gerard Donovan. Quoth the judges: “I suspect Chris Beckett winning the Edge Hill Prize will be seen as a surprise [...]
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