Sir Terry Pratchett has been named winner of the 2012 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for his novel Snuff (Doubleday). Praised by The Independent for being 'As funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh', the judges felt it seemed only fitting for him to win a prize that celebrates fiction that captures the comic spirit of P.G. Wodehouse.
The prize includes the naming of a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig after the novel.
This is the first time Pratchett has won the prize, although he has been shortlisted on three previous occasions for his novels Thief of Times (2002),Going Postal (2005) and Thud (2006). As the 13th winne...
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A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng has won Best Football Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards. The prize ceremony took place last night at the Savoy in London.
The winners of each category are now eligible for a 'best overall sports book of the year award' voted for by the public (this was won last year by Yellow Jersey's Anthon...
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Three Random House Group titles have been picked for the Richard and Judy Summer Book Club, exclusive to WHS, which returns this month with an extra two titles.
Random House titles The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Arrow); The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Vintage); and The Secrets Between Us by Louise Douglas (Bantam Press) are on the 10-strong list, which launches with Victoria Hislop’s...
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-First staff fundraising event raises more than £4,000 -
Staff from The Random House Group have voted in their hundreds for children’s hospice service, Shooting Star CHASE to be the focus of their charity support this year. Shooting Star CHASE supports over 600 families in western London, Surrey and West Sussex; in their own homes and at their two children’s hospic...
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Susie Harries' Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus) has won this year's Wolfson History Prize. The prize was awarded jointly with Professor Alexandra Walsham's The Reformation of the Landscape (Oxford University Press) and each author won £25,000.
The winners for 2012 were announced at a reception at the National Gallery; the 2012 judges were Sir Keith Thomas, Professor David Cannadine, Professor Richard Evans and Professor Julia Smith.
The annual prize from the Wolfson Foundation celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
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