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South Bank Show to feature David Peace

11 May 2008

News Item Image Text Serpent's Tail author David Peace is to be the subject of a South Bank Show special this coming weekend. read more

Download a BOY A guide for reading groups here today

24 April 2008

News Item Image Text It's a book that refuses to leave you once you've started it, and one of the few that deserves that much bandied about term - unputdownable. read more

The Times names 50 best crime writers - 4 are Serpent's Tail authors

21 April 2008

News Item Image Text The respected crime critic Marcel Berlins has compiled a list of the top 50 crime writers for the Times of London. read more

Andrew Garfield wins best actor Bafta for BOY A

21 April 2008

News Item Image Text Rising star Andrew Garfield beat strong competition at last night's Bafta awards to walk away with the Best Actor Prize. read more

SWANSEA TERMINAL is longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year prize

17 March 2008

News Item Image Text The second book from Robert Lewis, SWANSEA TERMINAL follows his debut THE LAST LLANELLI TRAIN, both of which feature hard-drinking, tough-living private detective Robert Llewellyn, or Magnum to his friends. read more

BOY A is the World Book Day - Book To Talk About

7 March 2008

News Item Image Text BOY A by Jonathan Trigell has been voted best "book to talk about" in a public poll organised as part of World Book Day. read more

Old Devil Moon shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards

18 February 2008

News Item Image Text The Horror Writers' Association of America has announced the shortlists for the 2007 Bram Stoker Awards. read more

CASTORP is shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

25 January 2008

News Item Image Text After his earlier novel, MERCEDES-BENZ making the IFF shortlist in 2006, we are delighted to announce that Pawel Huelle's CASTORP has been included on the longlist. read more

CRUEL POETRY is shortlisted for an Edgar

21 January 2008

News Item Image Text The prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Awards are the annual prizes nominated by the Mystery Writers of America organisation. Vicki Hendricks' erotic noir thriller, CRUEL POETRY has been nominated in the 'Best Paperback Original Category'. read more

And the winner is... Books of the Year mentions

20 December 2007

News Item Image Text It's annual round-up time, when newspapers and magazines ask reviewers, writers and all-round mavens to nominate their books of the year. We've had an embarassment of riches this year - mentions include... read more

David Peace is GQ Writer of the Year

21 September 2007

News Item Image Text Included among GQ's recipients of Men of the Year Awards 2007 were Kanye West (International Man of the Year), Michael Caine (Lifetime Achievement) - and none other than David Peace. read more


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Lionel Shriver at the Guardian Newsroom

12 May 2008

News Item Image Text We Need to Talk about Kevin is this month's Guardian Review Book Club choice, and Lionel Shriver will be at the Newsroom on Farringdon Rd to talk about the book. read more

Joe Boyd recalls May 1968

9 May 2008

News Item Image Text As part of the events to mark the 40th anniversary of May 1968, Joe Boyd will be taking part in a special panel event at the South Bank (Purcell Room). read more

The Prophet Murders Event - a Polari Evening

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News Item Image Text The charmingly entertaining Mehmet Murat Somer is in London shortly to launch The Prophet Murders. read more

Alex Wheatle appears at the African Caribbean Library in Battersea

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News Item Image Text The Dirty South is set in Brixton, south London, so it seems fitting to mark publication with an event close by. read more


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