Orange Prize

The longlist for this year's Orange Prize book award has just been announced:

Debra Adelaide - The Household Guide to Dying

Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress
Lissa Evans - Their Finest Hour and a Half
Bernardine Evaristo - Blonde Roots
Ellen Feldman - Scottsboro
Laura Fish - Strange Music

V.V. Ganeshananthan - Love Marriage

Allegra Goodman - Intuition
Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness
Samantha Hunt - The Invention of Everything Else

Michelle de Kretser - The Lost Dog
Deirdre Madden - Molly Fox’s Birthday
Toni Morrison - A Mercy
Gina Ochsner - The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
Marilynne Robinson - Home
Preeta Samarasan - Evening is the Whole Day
Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Miriam Toews - The Flying Troutmans
Ann Weisgarber - The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Find out more about the books and authors at http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/show/feature/home/orange-prize-2009-longlist

Glasgow Book Festival

Just a reminder that the Glasgow Aye Write Book Festival has now started and will be taking place at the Mitchell Library until Saturday 14th March. Authors such as Ian Rankin, Alan Bennett, Janice Galloway and Victoria Hislop will be taking part.

Find out more at http://www.ayewrite.com/

Blue Peter Book Award Winner

Shadow Forest by Matt Haig has been announced as the Winner of the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year 2009 and category winner of ‘the book I couldn’t put down’.

The book is a dramatic adventure story set in an enchanted magical world. Samuel Blink’s life changes forever when a giant log crashes out of the sky and kills his parents. As a result, he and his sister Martha are forced to move to Norway where Martha disappears into the Shadow Forest, a mysterious world ruled over by the evil Changemaker. It’s a world full of deadly truth pixies, one-eyed trolls and a witch who steals shadows. People who enter, never return. How will Samuel get Martha back?

Find out what happens by borrowing it from the Library!