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This is British Books Today, a website containing the latest British book news; links to new releases; awards; reviews; and anything related to British publishing. It is created by Peter Scott, who maintains the Publishers' Catalogues website.
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| Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage Embraces the Digital Age |
| June 29th, 2008 |
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| Crime writer inspires Britain's first sponsored police car |
| June 29th, 2008 |
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"Brighton & Hove (UK) police receive a five-door saloon as a 'thank you' from bestselling local writer Peter James" - The Guardian Technorati Tag: Books
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| 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner |
| June 29th, 2008 |
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The winner of the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been awarded to Rawi Hage for De Niro's Game Technorati Tag: Books
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| The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2008 winners |
| June 29th, 2008 |
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The winners of the 2008 Guild of Food Writers Awards have been announced Technorati Tag: Books
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| Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2008 longlist |
| June 29th, 2008 |
 The longlist for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2008 has been announcedTechnorati Tag: Books
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| 2008 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards winners |
| June 29th, 2008 |
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The winners of the 2008 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards have been announced Technorati Tag: Books
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| Desmond Elliott Prize winner |
| June 29th, 2008 |
 Nikita Lalwani has won the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize for her novel Gifted, a story about a maths prodigy growing up in 1980s Cardiff, WalesTechnorati Tag: Books
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| Faber Finds |
| June 29th, 2008 |
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"Faber Finds is an ever-growing list that aims to make available once more a wealth of forgotten or overlooked classics. Fiction, poetry, memoir, history, criticism and children's books - quality writing by authors of distinction, printed only on demand" Technorati Tag: Books
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| Five Dials from Hamish Hamilton |
| June 29th, 2008 |
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"Hamish Hamilton is a London publisher specialising in contemporary writing from both sides of the Atlantic. You can learn what's new, meet our authors, browse our titles, and download our new magazine, Five Dials" Technorati Tag: Books
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| Emerald Bookstore |
| June 29th, 2008 |
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"Emerald Group Publishing Limited has launched Emerald Bookstore, which allows visitors to browse through over 2,000 books by subject area and to order securely online" Technorati Tag: Books
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| Reed Elsevier completes sale of defence exhibitions |
| June 2nd, 2008 |
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"Reed Elsevier has announced the sale of the DSEi, ITEC and LAAD defence exhibitions to Clarion Events Limited. The sale is effective immediately. The sale of these three exhibitions to Clarion Events completes Reed Exhibitions' withdrawal from the defence exhibitions sector announced in 2007" Technorati Tag: Books
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| The Digitalist from Pan Macmillan |
| June 2nd, 2008 |
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"The Digitalist was originally conceived as an internal sounding board, discussion forum and blog for the publisher Pan Macmillan to start thinking about a range of digital issues it faced. It still is. Only now it's open for everyone to join the debate about books, publishing, the web, and the future" Technorati Tag: Books
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| London Lit Plus 2008 |
| June 2nd, 2008 |
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"London Lit Plus (LL+) is an open festival, which means anyone can participate, and anyone can hold an event. All you have to do to be included is to submit your event, and we’ll add it to the list on this website. We want to showcase all the wonderful literary goings-on in London that we can in a two-week period. The only conditions for entry are that it must be literary, it must be within the M25, and it must be taking place between 5 and 19 July 2008. We'd particularly like independent publishers and booksellers and schools to get involved, but everyone is invited" Technorati Tag: Books
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| 2008 Red House Children's Book Award winners |
| June 2nd, 2008 |
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The winners of the 2008 Red House Children's Book Award have been announced Technorati Tag: Books
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| Borders UK launches beta site |
| June 2nd, 2008 |
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Borders UK & Ireland has launched the beta version of its new transactional website. The retailer announced last year that it would launch its own website, ending its ties with Amazon, and users are now able to register to browse the new site Technorati Tag: Books
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| authonomy |
| May 11th, 2008 |
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authonomy is a new community for writers, readers and publishers from HarperCollins Technorati Tag: Books
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| May 11th, 2008 |
 "Following the success of the one-off visit to Bristol in 2006 of the American Left Coast Crime convention, the organisers are putting on a new biennial international event called CrimeFest. CrimeFest will follow the format of US conventions, featuring interviews, panels, a Gala Dinner, and possibly one or two surprises. Our 2008 Featured Guest Authors are Karin Fossum and Ian Rankin" - 5-8 June 2008 - Bristol, UKTechnorati Tag: Books
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| Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announced |
| May 11th, 2008 |
 This year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the UK's leading award for contemporary literature in translation, has been won by the Belgian-born scientist and novelist Paul Verhaeghen for his novel Omega Minor. The author, a cognitive psychologist who has worked in the US since 1997 and now teaches in Georgia, translated his epic of Nazi-era Berlin, atomic research and the long aftermath of the Third Reich into English from the Dutch original. So he stood to collect the entire prize money of GBP10,000, which is usually divided between author and translatorTechnorati Tag: Books
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| 2008 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize winner announced |
| May 11th, 2008 |
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The 2008 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize has been awarded to Clare Alexander. The prize commemorates the life and career of Kim Scott Walwyn, who was a Publishing Director at Oxford University Press Technorati Tag: Books
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| Foyle bids for Charing Cross Road neighbour |
| May 11th, 2008 |
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Foyles could tighten its grip on London's Charing Cross Road after the independent bookseller's chairman Christopher Foyle bought the building next door. Foyle's investment company Noved acquired the site of 111 Charing Cross Road for an undisclosed sum. 107–111 Charing Cross Road, approximately 115,000 sq ft, is currently the home of Central St Martins School of Art. The school will move to a new site in 2011, and Foyle said Noved was also bidding for 107 and 109. - From The Bookseller Technorati Tag: Books
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| Children's 'Booker' mooted |
| May 11th, 2008 |
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Children's publishers are investigating the creation of a "children's Booker" award to replace the Nestlé Children's Book Prize, which ceased in January when Nestlé's sponsorship ended. A working party has been set up by the Publishers Association's Children's Book Group to investigate how best to establish "a really wonderful, high-profile children's book award", according to Puffin m.d. Francesca Dow - From The Bookseller Technorati Tag: Books
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| Tesco sets GBP200m book sale target |
| May 11th, 2008 |
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Tesco has unveiled ambitious plans to almost double its book sales in three years to GBP200m, and is also moving to challenge Amazon online. "We are looking to match or better Amazon.co.uk on our key 5,000 lines by summer 2008," said buying manager for books Gaynor Allen. "If we had the same market share on Tesco.com as we did instore, we would have sold GBP26m worth of books last year instead of GBP3.5m. The current model doesn't deliver to its full potential." - From The Bookseller Technorati Tag: Books
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| Sebastian Faulks and the Writer's Table |
| May 1st, 2008 |
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"The Writer's Table is a major promotion at the forefront of The Writer's Year, Waterstone's calendar of monthly initiatives and activities designed to highlight the role of the author. Sebastian Faulks, whose highly anticipated James Bond novel Devil May Care is published at the end of May, has been given an entirely free rein in choosing every single title in the promotion - any book, any author, any subject, so long as the titles were in print in the UK. Faulks has also written about why he chose each book in his selection" Technorati Tag: Books
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| The Orwell Prize 2008 winners announced |
| April 30th, 2008 |
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The winners of the 2008 Orwell Prize have been announced Technorati Tag: Books
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| 2008 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize wiiner announced |
| April 30th, 2008 |
 The Royal Society of Literature has announced that the winner of the 2008 Ondaatje Prize is Graham Robb for his book The Discovery of France (Picador)Technorati Tag: Books
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