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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 ....
Monday August 1, 2022 at 5:48pm
August 1st 2022 Top Ten - Publish your own Book for free on on FeedARead.com. Includes a free cover creator where you can upload your own images or choose a template cover.1  Escape to AuschwitzBy Sonia Ann WaterfallIt was 2004, and a cache of letters was found when our parents house was cleared in preparation for sale. Ilse, our mother, had kept them safe for 50 years, never mentioning them nor telling their story. Hulda, her mother Gisela and daughter Ilse, all born into a Viennese J....
Friday May 6, 2022 at 1:54pm
CompetitionFor the opportunity to win Penguin Random House Editor feedback or a read of 15 pages of your writing publish your book with feedaread.com before the end of September 2022.  How to Enter and the Prizes To enter, simply publish with FeedARead.com for free in the simple self-publish and cover creator steps for paperbacks before the end of September 2022. During October, the feedaread site will then select 5 members to each win a prize. Three of the five selected will each rece....
Wednesday December 1, 2021 at 7:46pm
After two years of careful reading, moving backwards through time, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books. Take a quick look at five centuries of great writing ..Might your present or future book be a contender? Books published by our authors on the FeedARead.com site have made bestseller lists, including No Ordinary Life by Peter Stokes - an Amazon top ten book: the story of a founding member of the SAS who only told his children he'd been a Second World ....
Wednesday September 15, 2021 at 6:15pm
Novels set in Sri Lanka and South Africa, Cardiff Bay and the outer cosmos are among those to have been nominated for this year's Booker Prize.The chair of the judges said choosing the six "immersive" books had felt "transporting in a year when so many of us have been confined to home".The list includes three American writers and, for the second year in a row, only one British author.View Full Story
Thursday December 10, 2020 at 12:01am
Tara June Winch has become the first Indigenous Australian to win both of Australia’s major writing prizes in a year, taking out the $80,000 fiction category for the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary award on Thursday after winning the $60,000 Miles Franklin in July.This year’s awards, announced on Thursday, included a record showing for Indigenous writers and writers of colour, with the Gay’wu Group of Women winning the non-fiction category for Songspirals; the Darug duo of....
Tuesday July 30, 2019 at 3:23pm
The winning entrant of the following competition from the correct entries was Liz Hill. Many congratulations to Liz on her competition win!Free to Enter Competition - Win a Bloomsbury Editor critique of your novel's opening chapters How To Enter: Simply read a brief extract from the books below by clicking on the View Extract links of the book titles below and then click the button you will see to view the extracts. Then, enter your favourite 2 book extracts from all the books as outlined below.....
Tuesday April 23, 2019 at 8:43pm
Good news! Optician David Baker's latest feedaread published book Window of the Soul has been nominated for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize for making science accessible to a mass audience.
Monday September 3, 2018 at 3:22pm
Chris Evans has announced he will be leaving the Radio 2 breakfast show after eight years at the helm, and 13 years at the station.The popular children's writing competition 500 Words will remain part of the breakfast show after his departure, Evans said.Evans confirmed he was leaving Radio 2 to host Virgin Radio's breakfast show.View full article
Thursday August 2, 2018 at 9:37pm
Finalists include monster story set in Baghdad and meditation on the colour whiteView More
Wednesday June 13, 2018 at 6:01pm
Congratulations to Judi Moore author of Little Mouse ** Winner of the Georgina Hawtrey-Woore Award for adult fiction, 2018 ** View Book and Extract: https://www.feedaread.com/books/Little-Mouse-9781785100994.aspxAfter Kristallnacht in 1938 Doktor Theodore Goldstein, his wife Lisl, and their small son Theo, flee from Berlin, across the North Sea to Edinburgh. There, for more than ten years, they build a new life – a good life. But then a friend from the old days arrives, and they find themselves ....
Thursday October 5, 2017 at 9:49pm
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature 2017 The British author Kazuo Ishiguro said he was both honoured and “taken completely by surprise” after he was named this year’s winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, even initially wondering if the announcement was a case of “fake news”.Ishiguro, author of novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, was praised by the Swedish Academy for novels which “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with th....
Tuesday May 3, 2016 at 8:15pm
The winner of the following competition is David Ryan. Many congratulations to David. We will let members know when we launch our next competition.The following free-to-enter competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open until 31st July 2016. There is also another separate competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique which you can enter by clicking here How to Enter: Simply read a brief extract from each of the 6 books below and enter your favourite 3 extracts as detailed below. All....
Saturday April 2, 2016 at 2:15am
The winner of the following competition is Paula Hoskins. Many congratulations to Paula.The following free-to-enter competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique closing date was 30th June 2016. How to Enter: Simply read a brief extract from each of the 6 books below and enter your favourite 3 extracts as detailed below. All nationalities are welcome to enter. You are also welcome to publish your own book through FeedARead too. It is free to set up and sell your book as a bookstore quality pap....
Monday February 22, 2016 at 11:51pm
Many congratulations to FeedARead author John C Bird.John C Bird's novel, Alby and Me, has been selected as a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards.
Monday November 2, 2015 at 3:20am
On 3rd November 2015 click Competition at the top of the FeedARead homepage for your opportunity to win a Bloomsbury Editor Critique!
Tuesday July 28, 2015 at 1:24am
Free to Enter Competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique of your novel's opening chapters Competition 3How To Enter: Simply read a brief extract from the two books by clicking on the book titles below and then click the button you will see to view the extracts. Then, email your  favourite book extract from the two books as outlined below. Closing date 30th September 2015 You can also publish your own paperback for free on feedaread.com with high royalties and free publishing options. V....
Tuesday July 14, 2015 at 9:53pm
The winner of the following competition was David Collins. Many congratulations to David and we will be adding further competitions soon.Free to Enter Competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique of your novel's opening chapters How To Enter: Simply read a brief extract from each of the 7 books below by clicking on the View Book links below and then click the button you will see to view the extract. Then, email your three favourite book extracts from the books as outlined below. Closing date ....
Monday July 13, 2015 at 9:49pm
How To Enter: Simply read a brief extract from each book below by clicking on the book title and then click the button you will see to view the extract. Then, email your three favourite book extracts from the books as outlined below.  Closing date 31st August 2015   You can also publish your own paperback for free on feedaread.com with high royalties and free publishing options. View testimonials from our authors about publishing with FeedARead.comCompetition aim Your aim is to ra....
Friday February 27, 2015 at 7:07pm
We look forward to alerting members when we run our next competitions.The winner of the following competition was Meriel Brooke.  March Competition. Competition advertised in Writers' Forum magazine to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique.The winner of the following competition was Colin Knight. April Competition. Competition advertised in Writing Magazine to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique.
Wednesday February 25, 2015 at 2:20pm
The following free-to-enter competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open until 31st March 2015. The results of our previous competition will be announced by the end of March. How to Enter: Read a 6 page extract from any FOUR of the books below and answer a question about each of your chosen extracts as detailed below. All nationalities are welcome to enter.   You are also welcome to publish your own book through FeedARead too. It is free to set up and sell your book as a boo....
Thursday February 5, 2015 at 7:25am
The winner of the following competition was Meriel Brooke. Many Congratulations to Meriel.The following free-to-enter competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open until 7th March 2015. How to Enter: Join the site for free and read a 6 page extract from any FOUR of the books below and answer a question about each of your four chosen extracts as detailed below. All nationalities are welcome to enter. Click here to join  You are also welcome to publish your own book once joined. It ....
Friday November 14, 2014 at 9:11pm
Many congratulations to author John Bird who reports "My Feedaread novel, Alby and Me, has been named runner-up for the Quagga gold medal, a national award for independently published literary fiction."
Wednesday October 1, 2014 at 11:16am
Competition To Win A Bloomsbury Editor Critique of your opening chaptersNormal0MicrosoftInternetExplorer4The winner of the following competition is Joan Spence. Many congratulations to Joan, who wins a Bloomsbury Editor critique. We will inform members when we list our next competition.The following free-to-enter competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open until 31st October 2014.   Last month's competition winner was Dave Fisher, many congratulations to Dave.How to Enter t....
Saturday August 30, 2014 at 11:52am
We are pleased to announce we will be running a new competition in September 2014 for the opportunity to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique of your opening chapters by reading 3 book extracts. Click on Competitions at the top of the FeedARead.com homepage in September to view and enter the competition.
Wednesday August 27, 2014 at 7:08pm
The following free-to-enter competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open until 30th September 2014.  How to Enter:  Join the site for free and read a 6 page extract from any THREE of the books below and answer a question about each of your three chosen extracts as detailed below. All nationalities are welcome to enter.Click here to joinTo read the extracts, click on the links below and then the button to view the extract, the question for each extract will be at the end of e....
Friday May 30, 2014 at 8:44pm
The winner of the competition below is George Craig, many congratulations to George and thank you to everyone for entering. We will notify members when we list our next competition. best wishes, feedareadThe following free-to-enter competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open until 30th June 2014. All entrants are also welcome to publish through FeedARead, click Author Feedback on the top menu to view author feedback on paperback publishing with FeedARead. Free to join and publish a p....
Thursday February 27, 2014 at 10:12pm
The winner of the competition below is Fiona Crofts, many congratulations to Fiona and thank you to everyone for entering. We will notify members when we list our next competition. best wishes, feedaread teamPrevious Competition Results View The following free-to-enter competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open until 31st March 2014. All entrants are also welcome to publish through FeedARead, click Author Feedback on the top menu to view author feedback on paperback publishing with ....
Wednesday October 30, 2013 at 10:31pm
The winner of the following competition was Andy Bolton. Many congratulations to Andy! Competitions are regular so please check in on our competition page via the top menu above where any new competitions will be listed.COMPETITION November 2013 - The following competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open up to and including 30th November 2013. All entrants are also welcome to publish through FeedARead, click Author Feedback on the top menu to view author feedback on paperback publish....
Thursday August 1, 2013 at 12:11pm
More competitions coming soon!The winner of the AUGUST competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is Jacqui Penn. Many congratulations Jacqui ! The winner of the JULY competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique was Graeme Maughan. Many congratulations Graeme! COMPETITION AUGUST 2013 - The following competition to win a Bloomsbury Editor critique is open until 31st August 2013. Free to enter. Competition for the opportunity to win a prize of a critique for your opening cha....
Saturday April 28, 2012 at 10:35am
View the Competition details below – and click here to view the results of previous competitions. May Competition Results We are very pleased to announce the winner of the competition below to win an editor critique is displayed below. Thank you to everyone for entering and we will add further competitions in the coming months.May Competition Result: Winner: Lucy FoxFree to enter for all site and non-site members. Win a prize of a critique for your opening chapters from an editor....
Friday March 30, 2012 at 1:37pm
Competition ResultsWe are very pleased to announce the winner of the competition to win an editor critique is displayed below. Thank you to everyone for entering and there is a further competition during May to win a critique from an editor from Random House, who publish authors such as Dan Brown, by reading and answering questions about some more 6 page extracts. Click on Competition at the top of this page to enter. Closing date for the new competition is 31st May 2012, and we hope in the extr....