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Xiaolu Guo on the Not the Booker Long List
The Guardian has released a list of books selected for the Not the Booker Prize, and amongst this long list is I a…
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Richard Kerridge’s COLD BLOOD is Radio 4’s Book Of The Week
Cold Blood, Nature writer Richard Kerridge’s autobiographical tale of a lifelong obsession with reptiles and amphib…
Alex Bellos at the Port Eliot Festival
Join Alex, bestselling author of Alex’s Adventures In Numberland, at the Port Eliot Festival this coming weekend 24…
Free Word
Join Xiaolu Guo, Free Word’s Writer in Residence, as she introduces her new novel I am China with a live…
Meet the Author
Former political correspondent Terry Stiastny talks to the BBC’s Nick Higham about he…
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BBC Proms Plus Literary
Saturday 19 July, 5.45pm – 6.30pm, Rana Mitter talks to Chinese novelist and film-maker Xiaolu Guo and contemporary…
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Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
The 2014 Festival will take place on 17-20 July 2014 at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate.
100,000 Chinese Coolies
Tomorrow, on Radio 3 at 10.45 pm, Chinese-born author, Xiaolu Guo, will read her essay “Coolies” for …
Eeny Meeny Richard and Judy Featured Book
For the next two weeks M.J. Arlidge’s debut will be the focus of the Richard
Tim Butcher busy for the centenary of Franz Ferdinand’s assassination
Tim Butcher’s The Trigger tells the story Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of Archduke Ferdinand started…
Griffiths on 2014 Theakstons shortlist
Elly Griffiths, author of Dying Fall, joins Belinda Bauer, Malcolm Mackay, Peter May, Denise Mina and Stav She…
Weston wins McKitterick Prize
Gabriel Weston has won the 2014 McKitterick Prize for her novel Dirty Work.
A Piece of Cake!
Alex Bellos on how to cut a cake, the mathematical way!
The Life Scientific
Astronomer and Sky at Night TV presenter Chris Lintott tells Jim Al Khalili about his ̶…
Cameron McAllister: Top 10 Amazing Machines in Books for Children
Follow this link for a delightful piece by…
Wolf wins Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
Jack Wolf has won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award for The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones (Chatto…
EENY MEENY goes in at number 5 in the Bestseller Chart
M.J. Arligde’s debut Eeny Meeny hit the number five spot on the Sunday Times Pape…
Bellos Short-listed for Royal Society Radio Prize
Alex Bellos has been short-listed for the Association of British Science Writers Royal Society Radio Prize for his Ra…
Xiaolu Guo on Start the Week
Listen in to Xiaolu Guo, Chinese writer and filmmaker, talk about the contrasts between East and West in her latest t…
DYING FALL longlisted for the T.O.P. Crime Novel of the Year Award
Elly Griffiths’ Dying Fall (Quercus 2013) has been longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of…
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