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Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on being shortlisted for the second annual Staunch Book Prize! The £1,000 award was set up in 2018 by author Bridget Lawless and aims to find the best thrillers in which no woman gets beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered in response to violence of women depicted in books, TV and film.

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Congratulations to David Szalay on his latest book, TURBULENCE (Jonathan Cape, 2019) being awarded both the main £10,000 prize and the £1,000 Reader's Choice Award at the Edge Hill Short Story Prize this year! Originally commissioned by BBC Radio 4, the collection of stories has received critical acclaim since the publication of the print edition:

'More tales of mortality from a master of the genre ... [ Turbulence ] is a chilling achievement .’ Evening Standard

'Szalay’s mixture of directness and withholding looks increasingly masterly .’ Financial Times

‘An ingenious literary chain letter .' iNews

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Philip Pullman’s THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH is published today by David Fickling Books in association with Penguin Random House in the UK and Random House Children’s in the US, and will subsequently be available in thirty foreign territories worldwide. THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH is the second book in the Book of Dust...

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The shortlist for the coveted East Anglian Book Awards 2019 has been revealed, celebrating the very best of publishing, writing and reading in the region. Now in their 12th year, the awards celebrate writing talent within the East of England. 
The East Anglian Book Awards are a partnership between Jarrold, EDP, and the National Centre for Writing, supported by UEA Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the PACCAR Foundation.

George Szirtes ' THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN (Maclehose Press, 2019) has been shortlisted in the 'Biography and Memoir' category.

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