Celebrated journalist Ronald Reng has been announced the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2011, for A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke. One of the greatest honours in sportswriting, Reng's biography of Robert Enke, the German national goalkeeper who suffered from depression and took his own life two years ago, was praised by the judging panel for its powerful and ...
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The Random House Group celebrated two wins at last night's Irish Book Awards in Dublin. How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (Ebury) won RTÉ Radio 1's The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award and Inside the Peloton by Nicolas Roche (Transworld Ireland) won Irish Sports Book of the Year.Congratulations also to our friends at Andersen Press who won Specsavers Irish Children's Book of the Year (Junior) category for The Lonely Beast.The winners in full:The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year:Mistaken by Neil Jordan (John Murray)RTÉ Radio 1's The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award:How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (Ebury)The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fi...
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The Random House Group has received five nominations in the 2011 Costa Awards - including four for Jonathan Cape.Man Booker winner Julian Barnes could be up for an unprecedented double after receiving a nomination for the best novel for The Sense of an Ending. He is up against fellow Jonathan Cape author John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning.If Barnes was to win and to take home the overall Costa Book of the Year prize, he would be the first author to win both it and the Man Booker for the same book.Julia Blackburn is shortlisted in the 2011 Costa Biography Award for Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village (Jonathan Cape), Kevin Barry is shortlisted for the&n...
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The Random House Group has three shortlisted nominations in The FutureBook Innovation Awards:
Best Reference/non-trade app shortlist - The Magic of Reality (Transworld)
Best website - Vintage-books.co.uk
Best integrated digital marketing campaign - The Night Circus, Harvill Secker (Vintage Publishing)
The winners will be announced on the evening of The FutureBook Conference on Monday, December 5th.
See the full shortlist here
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Random House Struik (Pty) Ltd (RHS) has announced the forthcoming retirement of its founding managing director Stephen Johnson.Johnson, who reaches retirement age in 2012, will step down as MD at the end of March. He will become Chairman of the RHS Board in April, the start of the company's new financial year.Steve Connolly, the current MD of New Holland Publishers in London, and a former MD of Struik Publishers, will return to South Africa to take over as RHS MD with effect from April 1st. Johnson and Connolly plan to work together during March 2012 to ensure that the management transition at RHS is as seamless as possible.Random House Struik was formed in August 2008 by the merg...
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The £25,000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize is open to outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health and medicine. It brings together the worlds of medicine and literature, appealing to literature lovers and science enthusiasts alike.Turn of Mind (Harvill Secker) is written from the perspective of Dr Jennifer White, an eminent former surgeon in the final stages of Alzheimer's who comes under suspicion after the murder of her best friend. As the novel progresses, our narrator's mind collapses as she enters the last stages of dementia.While her world falls apart, the investigation into the murder of her friend, Amanda, uncovers her family's darkest secrets. The mounting i...
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Books from Ebury and Transworld triumphed at The 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards on Friday:
More4 Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year: How To Be A Woman, Caitlin Moran (Ebury)
Food & Drink Book of the Year: The Good Cook, Simon Hopkinson (BBC Books)
Crime & Thriller of the Year: Before I Go To Sleep, S J Watson (Doubleday)
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Sign up now to be one of 20,000 volunteer givers for World Book Night 2012 on 23rd April. To apply please click here.Each giver will get 24 copies each of their chosen book to distribute on World Book Night to non or light readers. In 2012 The Random House Group has 8 titles on the list:Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Vintage)Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (Transworld)The Secre...
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