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Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year 2008 Shortlist
This year's Richard and Judy Book Club is being televised from Wednesday 9th January to Wednesday 12th March 2007.
The featured titles with dates of programme are:

• 9 January: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• 16 January: Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
• 23 January: The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
• 30 January: A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory
• 06 February: Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
• 13 February: Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
• 20 February: The Visible World by Mark Slouka
• 27 February: Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• 5 March: Blood River by Tim Butcher
• 12 March: The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
  
  A brief description of each of the books featured can be found at
  www.britishbookawards.co.uk

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Galaxy British Book Awards
The shortlists have been announced for these prestigious annual awards (the oscars of the book trade) and include Richard & Judy 'Best Read of the Year', WHS Smith Children’s Book of the Year and several other categories.
Extracts from the shortlisted books and full details can be found at www.britishbookawards.co.uk
Readers can vote for their favourite book in each category by using the voting form in the Preview magazines being distributed to libraries now or by going to the Galaxy British Book Awards website and voting online, where you will be entered into a prize draw for £200 worth of book tokens.

The GBBA award ceremony will take place on Wednesday 9 April and televised on Channel 4 at 4.45pm on Sunday 13 April.
The Galaxy British Book Awards categories are:
Author of the Year
Biography of the Year
Crime Thriller of the Year
Newcomer of the Year
Popular Fiction Award
Popular Non-Fiction Award
Book of the Year
Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award

For more details go to the Richard & Judy Book ClubIf you'd like to borrow titles through Somerset libraries, you can reserve them online using your library card number and PIN (and review the titles read) at www.librarieswest.org.uk Alternatively, telephone 0845 3459177.

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Man Booker Prize for Fiction - Best of Booker
To celebrate 40 years of the Booker Prize the public, for the first time, will have the chance to vote for their choice. You will be able to vote for your choice from a shortlist of six titles, drawn up by a panel of judges, Victoria Glendenning, Mariella Frostrup and John Moore. The judges shortlist will be announced in May and voting will take place on the Man Booker Prize website.
The 25th Anniversary of the prize was celebrated in 1983 by the selection of the "Booker of Bookers" and the winner selected by a judging panel was Salman Rushdie for "Midnight's Children".
For details of this year's awards, previous winners and the Best of Booker visit www.themanbookerprize.com/prize
Last years Man Booker winner, announced in October 2007 was Anne Enright for her novel "The Gathering". More about "The Gathering" can be found at www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1004

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Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, has announced the 2008 longlist of books. Now in its thirteenth year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing. Find out more at www.orangeprize.co.uk

Previous winners are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), Zadie Smith for On Beauty (2006), Lionel Shriver for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2005), Andrea Levy for Small Island (2004), Valerie Martin for Property (2003), Ann Patchett for Bel Canto (2002), Kate Grenville for The Idea of Perfection (2001), Linda Grant for When I Lived in Modern Times (2000), Suzanne Berne for A Crime in the Neighbourhood (1999), Carol Shields for Larry's Party (1998), Anne Michaels for Fugitive Pieces (1997), and Helen Dunmore for A Spell of Winter (1996).

The shortlist for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers will be announced on 8th April with the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction shortlist announcement: 15 April. Awards Ceremony in London on 4th June
Longlist for the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction

Find out more about the books and the authors at www.orangeprize.co.uk
Click here for details of other books by the longlist authors [ 232.5k]

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BBC RaW Click here to find out more about BBC RaW. Every month a different celebrity talks about their favourite read as part of the BBC Read & Write campaign. Find out more about books for all ages, games, puzzles and more news about RaW. You may like to check out the related websites box, in particular the Good Reads database with plenty of good reads for new readers.

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Poetry Archive
A new website has been launched providing access to recordings of poetry, information on poets and poetry. The site features guest "guides" (such as Andrew Motion) highlighting parts of the site. It also provides tips on staging literary events and links to publisher and award sites. It poetry featured is not available in your local library a request can be placed either at the library or online at www.librarieswest.org.uk. To enter the poetry archive click here.

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Related websites

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