M2 Best Books articles from May 2009

M2 Best Books archives from May 2009

Carol Ann Duffy is Britain's new Poet Laureate.
May 1, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Carol Ann Duffy has been declared as the UK's new Poet Laureate and is the first female in the post's 341 year history to be honoured with the position. Duffy succeeds Andrew Motion as...

Shortlist for Branford Boase award announced.
May 4, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The seven books shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award have been announced. The winner of the award, which was set up to recognise new writers as well as excellence in publishing, will...

Winners of 2009 Northern Writers' Awards announced.(Awards list)
May 5, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD New Writing North has announced that seven writers from the North of England are to receive awards of between GBP2,500 and GBP5,000 from the annual Northern Writers' Awards, which is...

Ruth Rendell denies reports of Wexford's demise.
May 6, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Ruth Rendell's editor, Paul Sidey at Hutchinson, has confirmed that the writer will continue to write Inspector Wexford crime novels, after recent reports suggested that the last one had been...

Sebastian Barry receives two Irish Book Awards.
May 7, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The 2009 Irish Book Awards have honoured author Sebastian Barry with two awards at a gala dinner held in the Mansion House, Dublin, on the evening of 6 May. Barry's novel, The Secret...

Love story by Napoleon Bonaparte to be published in English.
May 8, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A romantic novel by the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, Clisson and Eugenie, has been translated into English and is due to be released in autumn this year After Napoleon died in exile, the...

Jerry Hall backs out of contract for kiss and tell autobiography.
May 11, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Mick Jagger's ex partner, Texan model Jerry Hall, has decided not to go ahead with her GBP1m contract with Harper Collins to write her autobiography, after the publisher had asked her to...

First Fred Perry biography is released.
May 12, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Observer's tennis correspondent, Jon Henderson, has written the first biography of tennis star Fred Perry, titled The Last Champion. Perry, who was born 100 years ago this week and...

Exhibition of Macmillan Prize winners work.
May 13, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The work of the winners of the 2009 Macmillan Prize for Children's Book Illustrations is being displayed in The Gallery of Foyles on Charing Cross Road, London, until Friday 15 May. ...

Former Chinese Communist party leader's memoirs to be released.
May 14, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The secretly recorded memoirs of Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese communist leader, are to be published in English and Chinese this month, just before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen...

Mind Book of the Year award is won by Sathnam Sanghera.
May 15, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Sathnam Sanghera, a Times columnist, has been presented with the Mind Book of the Year award for his memoir The Boy with the Topknot. The award is in its 28th year and is given for a...

2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize winners are revealed.
May 18, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The winners of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and Best First Book were presented with their prizes by the Governor-General of New Zealand, Hon Sir Anand Satyan, at the...

Twitter book club launched by Jonathan Ross.
May 19, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Television presenter Jonathan Ross has launched a book club on Twitter, #wossybookclub. The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson is the first book to be featured on #wossybookclub, which has...

Ondaatje prize goes to Adam Nicolson.
May 20, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje prize has been presented to Adam Nicolson for his title Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History, a historical study of his family home. The GBP10,000...

Bisto Children's Book of the Year is awarded posthumously to Siobhan Dowd.
May 21, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The nineteenth Bisto Children's Book of the Year has been awarded to Siobhan Dowd, who died in 2007, for her title Bog Child. The author's sister Oona Emerson received the EUR10,000 prize...

HP technology offers the Print-on-Demand Obama Time Capsule book.
May 22, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Technology solutions provider HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Rick Smolan, co-creator of best-selling books, announced on Thursday (21 May) the availability of 'The OBAMA Time Capsule', a reportedly a...

The BBC Samuel Johnson prize shortlist is announced.
May 22, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The shortlist of six titles for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize shortlist has been revealed, with science featuring strongly this year. The non-fiction prize shortlist is comprised of: Lords of...