Tuesday April 23, 2024 at 7:15pm
View all news on World Book Day courtesy of The Guardian including how book fans got into fantasy dress of book characters to celebrate.View News
Thursday March 14, 2024 at 9:49pm
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prizeIrish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically astonishing’ fourth novel praised for its ‘great wit and humanity’ by judge Bernadine EvaristoAuthor Paul Murray, whose fourth novel The Bee Sting won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold book of the year prize. Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prizeIrish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically....
Thursday March 7, 2024 at 9:53pm
Anne Enright triumphs in fiction category for The Wren, Three women have triumphed in this year’s Writers’ prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio prize, with poet Liz Berry winning the overall book of the year award, worth £30,000.Berry won the £2,000 poetry prize as well as the overall award for her collection The Home Child, a novel-in-verse inspired by the poet’s great-aunt, who at 12 years old was forced to move from the Black Country to Canada as part of ....
Friday February 16, 2024 at 4:41pm
BlackfriarsBy Paul Delaney View More and ExtractDismayed at the sudden news that his dad's missing in action, Harry Smith arrives at 'Blackfriars', a top secret training school for young secret agents. Struggling to make an initial impression, Harry finally wins his coveted 'Blackfriars' badge and parachutes into enemy-occupied Prague with his unit, Ventriloquist. What awaits - death or glory?ISBN: 9781835970393Type: PaperbackPages: 328Published: 13 February 2024Pric....
Monday January 22, 2024 at 4:35pm
Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has joined fellow celebrated British writers Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson this weekend in calling on government to legislate immediately to ensure all schools in Britain have libraries.“The school library is absolutely essential at every level of education, and it needs legal protection and status,” said Pullman. “It is too easy to think that books and reading for pleasure are not essential, whereas nothing i....
Thursday January 18, 2024 at 4:37pm
An independent review of libraries in England has found a “lack of recognition” across government and a “lack of awareness” among the general public of what libraries have to offer.The review proposes the creation of a libraries minister, the establishment of a libraries laureate and a branding campaign to raise awareness of the role of libraries, among other recommendations.The review was commissioned last September for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) minister Stephen Pa....
Thursday January 4, 2024 at 4:39pm
a mirrorworldBy major roxbroughMirrorworld A dangerous backward place since the Poison Wars. There men are armed with ancient pistols and the natives are getting restless. In that world one man carves out justice - Law Officer Ridger. Tragedy has been his beginnings, he has lost his family, his wife. Yet he hopes one day to go beyond the great barrier, to find a better place to live out his life.ISBN: 9781835970195Type: Hardback + Dust JacketPages: 122Published: 11 January 2024Price: €....
Wednesday December 27, 2023 at 3:40pm
Street Fighting ManBy John Knight View Book Extract'Street Fighting Man’ is the 7th novel in the 1960s Jimmy Mack series and the second novel in the 1968 trilogy. The 1968 trilogy follows the 1967 trilogy. ‘Alice’, a parallel story, is also part of the series. The series follows the rise of James ‘Mack’ MacKinnon, a young Mod, to top London fashion photographer. Mack shares his love with three young women who live with ....
Friday December 1, 2023 at 3:38pm
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Monday November 13, 2023 at 7:52pm
View Book and ExtractStreet Fighting Man’ is the 7th novel in the 1960s Jimmy Mack series and the second novel in the 1968 trilogy. The 1968 trilogy follows the 1967 trilogy. ‘Alice’, a parallel story, is also part of the series. The series follows the rise of James ‘Mack’ MacKinnon, a young Mod, to top London fashion photographer. Mack shares his love with three young women who live with him in Chelsea. Effy is his fiancée, and she has succeeded as a fashion....