With the glorious arrival of Spring this week, and the clocks now set to official British Summer Time, it's the perfect time of year to get outside and explore the countryside.
Square Peg's very own Adele Nozedar, author of the beautiful Hedgerow Handbook, is writing a fabulous monthly blog describing what we can find in our local hedgerows. Encouraging us all to meander and explore, the blog will document what we're likely to find outside, and how best to use our foraged findings with intriguing recipe suggestions (nettle ice lollies, anyone?).
Read the blog here. Adele Nozedar's The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals is published by Square Peg, £12.99
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Trash by Andy Mulligan and Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans have both been shortlisted for the UK's most prestigious children's book award: the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2012. The Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children. This year sees the youngest Carnegie shortlist for years featuring no less than four debut novels on the eight-strong shortlist. The eight books on this year's shortlist are variously suitable for readers of 12 years, or younger, bucking the trend of recent shortlists which have majored on teenage and young adult fiction.The Carnegie Medal was established in 1936, in memory of the great Scottish-born philanthrop...
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The Random House Group and Ian Fleming Publications Ltd today announce that Vintage Publishing, a division of Random House, has acquired through Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown the ten-year licence for Ian Fleming’s entire James Bond backlist in print and ebook format, along with Fleming’s two non-fiction titles.Vintage Books is the sister imprint of Jonathan Cape, who were the original p...
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The three titles in the series – Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed – will be available in ebook from 14th March and the first book in the trilogy will be available in printed edition on 12th April 2012.Selina Walker, Publisher of Century and Arrow said, “These truly are the books everyone is talking about - pretty much around the world. They are romantic, liberating, and utterly page-turning, and have sparked more round-the-table conversation than any books I can remember. We are delighted to be publishing the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy in Arrow, and to be welcoming EL James to our publishing list.”First published in May 201...
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Vintage are delighted to have 6 titles featured on the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction longlist:1Q84: BOOKS 1 AND 2, Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin (Harvill Secker)PARRALLEL STORIES, Peter Nadas, translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein (Cape) THE PRAGUE CEMETERY, Umberto Eco, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon (Harvill Secker) PROFESSOR ANDE...
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Between them Vintage and Cornerstone have five books on the Orange Prize 2012 longlist:The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) The Blue Book by A.L. Kennedy (Jonathan Cape) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker) Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (Chatto & Windus) The Submission by Amy Waldman (William Heinemann) The Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK's only annual b...
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Jonathan Cape novelist Kevin Barry has been shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. His story, Beer Trip to Llandudno, follows a tight-knit group of ale-obsessed men travelling from Liverpool to Llandudno for their latest bittersweet tasting trip. Among the contenders for the £30,000 prize is former Booker nominee Emma Donoghue. She is joined by the Chinese-American Jean Kwok, whose debut novel was a bestseller; the children's and teens' author Linda Oatman High; the Welsh poet and environmentalist Robert Minhinnick; and Tom Lee, whose fiction is being adapted for film.The winner of the award will be announced at a gala dinner at the Sunday ...
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Bestselling Century and Arrow author, Katie Fforde, won the Contemporary Romantic Novel Award at the RNA's annual awards, the RoNA's, earlier this week for Summer of Love. Katie beat off stiff competition from the likes of Freya North and Jill Mansell among others at the ceremony in London.
Summer of Love was published in Century hardback in March 2011
The paperback, published by Arrow, is currently No 2 in the Sunday Times for a second week.
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Random House chairman and chief executive Gail Rebuck presented Freedom From Torture, the company’s staff-nominated charity of the year, with a cheque for £24,500 this week.Development manager Christine Harris and volunteer therapist Anne Elton from Freedom From Torture joined Gail and Random House staff at Vauxhall Bridge Road to celebrate the fundraising total, which was achieved thr...
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