Last night the Group celebrated three wins at the National Book Awards which showcase the best of British writing and publishing, whilst celebrating books with wide popular appeal, critical acclaim and commercial success.Popular Fiction Book of the Year - Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James (Arrow) Crime and Thriller of the Year - A Wanted Man by Lee Child (Bantam) New Writer of the Year - The Unlik...
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Square Peg will host a pop-up bookshop on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th December at Broadway Market; Cookbooks & Baking - Stocking Fillers - Games & Pastimes - Art and Humour
It will run from 10-6pm each day at Off Broadway winebar (63-65 Broadway Market, London Fields, E8 4PH).
This quirky festive grotto will be filled with gorgeous giftbooks at one-off discount prices. There'll be cake or mulled wine with every purchase.
Look out for our competitions and giveaways all this week running up to the event: @pegssquare
Please spread the word and see you there!
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Former US Olympic gold medallist and seven-time Tour de France rider, Tyler Hamilton, and acclaimed writer Daniel Coyle have scooped this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for The Secret Race, a groundbreaking exposé about the culture of doping in professional cycling.Claiming the greatest honour in sports-writing, The Secret Race created news headlines earlier this year, and has been widely described as the most damning indictment yet of Tour winners, such as Tyler's former teammate Lance Armstrong. Announced by John Inverdale at a lunchtime ceremony at Waterstones Piccadilly, Europe's largest bookstore, The Secret Race was hailed by judges as "a landmark publication"...
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At the British Travel Press Awards, Shane Spall was awarded the Travel Narrative Book of the Year Award.Shane's book, The Voyages of The Princess Matilda, is the story of Shane and Timothy Spall and their Dutch barge, The Princess Matilda. After a summer on the Thames they head out to sea with only a road atlas and a vast amount of ignorance - and it is absolutely terrifying!On their travels, memories are triggered of childhood trips to the seaside, but also of more recent times. A decade before, Tim had been diagnosed with acute leukaemia and was given only days to live.Shocked at how life can pass you by they decided that when, and if, Tim got better, they would buy a boat.A...
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Sir Terry Pratchett has been honoured with the Best Documentary Emmy at the International Emmy Awards in Los Angeles for his programme 'Choosing to Die' which aired last year.
In a message to fans on twitter he posted; '"I will accept any award that isn't posthumous" Brilliant!'
For more details on the documentary and the other winners head over to the BBC News Website.
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The Costa Book Award category shortlists have been announced and include the following titles from the RHG:Costa Novel of the Year AwardDays of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart - (Jonathan Cape)Costa First Novel AwardThe Innocents by Francesca Segal (Chatto & Windus)Costa Biography AwardServing Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard (Chatto & Windus) Costa Poetry A...
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Simon Mayo has been in the West Country touring for the paperback of his debut children's book, ITCH. The book, a fast paced adventure story about an ordinary school boy whose element-hunting hobby gets him in serious danger, is set in Cornwall.The tour featured school events in Truro (where the school was so keen they opened on Sunday to host their event), Bude and Tregony as well as appearances ...
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The inimitable Quentin Blake, who this year celebrates his 80th birthday, has been awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to the world of children's books.The Eleanor Farjeon Award is given annually to a person or an organisation whose commitment and influence in children's books is deemed to be outstanding. Founded in 1966, it is presented in memory of the celebrate...
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The Specsavers National Book Awards shortlist has been announced, recognising the most popular books of 2012, with titles from across the Random House Group nominated in each of the 10 categories.Winners will be presented by TV host Lorraine Kelly at a star-studded awards ceremony at London's glamorous Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Tuesday 4 December. Highlights from the awards will be shown in Lorra...
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Wade Davis' history of George Mallory's attempt to conquer Everest, Into the Silence, has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.The chair of the judges, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, described the book, which took Davis ten years to write, as 'momentous' and said that 'it will be read for years to come'.Below is the complete shortlist:Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum, by Katherine Boo (Portobello Books)The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, by Robert Macfarlane (Hamish Hamilton)The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity, by Steven Pinker (Allen Lane)The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain, b...
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