M2 Best Books articles from January 2009

M2 Best Books archives from January 2009

Coded works by Ernest Hemingway to be published online.
January 2, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Curators at the Finca Vigia museum in Havana, Cuba have announced that previously unseen notes written in code by Ernest Hemingway are to be published online. Hemingway resided in Cuba...

Revised version of Harry Potter Lexicon to be published.
January 5, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It was announced on 5 January that a new version of a Harry Potter guide with the full title The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction and Related Materials, put together by...

Costa Book of the Year shortlist is revealed.
January 6, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It has been announced that five writers have been shortlisted for the GBP50,000 Costa Book Award. The authors are winners of each individual category of the Costa Book Awards. The...

X Factor winner Leona Lewis to write autobiography.
January 7, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It was announced on 7 January that the 2006 X Factor winner, Leona Lewis, has signed a contract with publishers Hodder & Stoughton to write her autobiography. The singer will tell of her...

Business career book for technical people, You.next(), is introduced on Amazon.
January 8, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It was announced on 7 January that a debut book on leadership careers for software developers, titled You.next(), by authors Michael C Finley and Honza Fedak, is now available on Amazon.com....

Herman Rosenblat's Angel at the Fence to be fictionalised.
January 9, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It has been reported that White Plains publisher York House Press is negotiating to release Herman Rosenblat's discredited holocaust memoir Angel at the Fence as a work of fiction with a new...

Pooh Bear returns after 80 years.
January 12, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A sequel to the classic children's book, The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne with illustrations by E. H. Shepard, is to be written by David Benedictus. The new book is titled Return...

TS Eliot prize for poetry is awarded to Jen Hadfield.
January 13, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It was announced on 12 January that the TS Eliot prize for poetry has been won by Jen Hadfield for her collection of poems titled Nigh-No-Place. Hadfield received a cheque for GBP15,000...

All female shortlist for Romantic Novel of the Year prize is announced.
January 14, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Six titles, all written by female novelists, have been shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. A panel of Romantic Novelists' Association members selected the shortlist...

Craig Murray's memoir is made available on the Internet.
January 15, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new book, The Catholic Orangemen of Togo and Other Conflicts I Have Known by Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, is available to download for free on the Internet,...

Official Obama inauguration photography book project to be launched.
January 16, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD An official licensee of the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC), Epicenter Communications, has announced the initiation of a photography book project to commemorate Barack Obama's...

Nominations for 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Awards are revealed.
January 19, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The nominees for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Awards have been announced by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), in recognition of the best of mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film...

New book about broadcaster Howard Stern is published.
January 20, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new book about the radio broadcaster Howard Stern, AMERICAN ICON: The HOWARD STERN Reader by John D Luerssen, is now available. AMERICAN ICON: The HOWARD STERN Reader is published by...

Britney Spears may write autobiography.
January 20, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It has been reported that Britney Spears has been offered a GBP10m publishing deal to write her autobiography. According to the Daily Mirror, the singing star has already been signed up...

Sarah Ardizzone is awarded the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation.
January 21, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Marsh Award has been won by Sarah Ardizzone, who was presented with the award and a cheque for GBP2,000 by author Anthony Horowitz at a prize giving ceremony on 20 January 2009, for the...

Sales of Barack Obama: The Movement for Change exceed expectations.
January 22, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Arcadia Books has announced that the first 10,000 UK editions of Barack Obama: The Movement for Change by Anthony Painter have sold out on the day after the 44th President of the United...

Warwick Prize for Writing shortlist is announced.
January 23, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Warwick Prize for Writing, a new GBP50,000 literature prize to be awarded biennially, has announced its shortlist for 2009. The winner of the international award, for a work of...

Finalists of the National Book Critics Circle Award are announced.
January 26, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The shortlists for the annual National Book Critics Circle awards have been announced at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City, for the best books and reviews published in English...

Neil Gaiman is awarded the John Newbery Medal for children's literature.
January 27, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The American Library Association has announced that the 88th annual Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children has been won by Neil Gaiman, for...

Sebastian Barry wins Costa book of the year award.
January 28, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Author Sebastian Barry has received the GBP25,000 Costa Book of the Year Award for his novel The Secret Scripture at an awards ceremony at The Intercontinental Hotel, in London's Park Lane....

Mills and Boon launches series of rugby themed books.
January 29, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher Mills & Boon has announced that it has teamed up with the British Rugby Football Union to produce a series of eight novels in which Rugby players are featured, as a way to encourage...

Best Book to Talk About This Year shortlist is announced by Spread the Word: Books to Talk About.
January 30, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Spread the Word: Books to Talk About, a website created by the The World Book Day team, has announced the shortlist for the Best Book to Talk About This Year. The shortlist of ten...