Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009

The longlist for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009 has been announced:

Auslander by Paul Dowswell (Bloomsbury)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley (Bloomsbury)
Numbers by Rachel Ward (Chicken House)
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray (Definitions)
Furnace: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith (Faber)
Three Ways to Snog an Alien by Graham Joyce (Faber)
The Ant Colony by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins)
Bloodchild by Tim Bowler (Oxford University Press)
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant (Puffin)
Solitaire by Bernard Ashley (Usborne)
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness (Walker)
Exposure by Mal Peet (Walker)

Find out more at http://tinyurl.com/lbey33

Anthony Horowitz News

The new Alex Rider book, Crocodile Tears, will now be published on 12th November instead of next year, as Anthony Horowitz finished it earlier than he thought he would! Find out more at http://tinyurl.com/nr3frm

Man Booker Prize

The longlist for this year's Man Booker prize has been announced:

The Children's Book by AS Byatt
Summertime by J M Coetzee
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Me Cheeta by James Lever
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Love and Summer by William Trevor
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Find out more at http://tinyurl.com/nwqnch .

The Book That Changed My Life

Scottish Book Trust have launched an appeal to find the books which have changed peoples' lives. You can take part at http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/thebook - just enter the title and author of your book and say why it was so important to you. It doesn’t have to be long: between 50 and 500 words. The most inspirational stories will be published in a book in 2010.

You can also read other people’s choices, add comments or just browse the lists of most popular books!

Book Events in Glasgow

Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

Borders, Buchanan St, 3:00 pm, Sat 11th July 2009

Calling all fans of teen fiction (including all new fans of Stephenie Meyer!), Borders Glasgow is very excited to welcome Cassandra Clare, the much acclaimed author of The Mortal Instruments series, of which the final instalment City of Glass will be published on the 6th July and Sarah Rees Brennan, author of the greatly anticipated series of books of which the first The Demons Lexicon will be published in early June. Both authors will be appearing and signing copies of their books at 3pm on Saturday the 11th July.

A series of exciting talks are taking place in The Mitchell Library in July and August. Tickets are available in person from The Mitchell or by telephoning 0141 287 2999.

Jeffrey Deaver

The Mitchell Theatre, Friday 24 July, 6.30pm, Tickets £3

The bestselling crime author discusses his new Katherine Dance novel, Roadside Crosses.

Christopher Brookmyre

The Mitchell Theatre, Friday 14 August, 6.30pm, Tickets £3

Glaswegian author Christopher Brookmyre launches his new novel, Pandaemonium at The Mitchell Library.

A group of Glasgow teenagers on a rural retreat and a top secret military experiment spiralling out of control - two different worlds on a collision course in Christopher Brookmyre's new novel.

Phillipa Gregory

The Mitchell Theatre, Friday 21 August, 7pm, Tickets £3. (Special rate for book groups. Contact Mary Greenshields at mary.greenshields@csglasgow.org for details)

Famed historian, novelist and author of the bestselling The Other Boleyn Girl discusses her latest historical novel, The White Queen, the tale of one woman's ambitious ascent to royalty during the War of the Roses and the unsolved mystery around her sons -the Princes in the Tower.

Liam McIlvanney

The Mitchell Theatre, Thursday 27 August, 7pm ,Tickets £3. (Special rate for book groups. Contact Mary Greenshields at mary.greenshields@csglasgow.org for details)

Glasgow author Liam McIlvanney comes to The Mitchell to talk about his debut novel, All the Colours of the Town, a compelling thriller set amid the murky politics of Scotland and Northern Ireland.