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The Wellcome Book Prize longlist 2018
The longlist for this year’s Wellcome book prize has been announced.
This prize is awarded annually to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction that ‘celebrates the topics of health and medicine in literature’. Featuring popular science, memoir, lyrical meditation and medical history, the 2018 longlist is:
Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
In Pursuit of Memory by Joseph Jebelli
Plot 29 by Allan Jenkins
The White Book by Han Kang (translated by…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
Our bestselling book of last week is Lost Connections. Author Johann Hari makes…
25% off selected Bloomsbury Modern Classics
The Bloomsbury Modern Classics are a beautifully designed set of 10 limited edition paperbacks. Throughout February, we’re offering our online customers 25% off all the titles featured in the set.
The 10 books includes The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, Restless by William Boyd, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Eat, Pray, Love by…
What we're reading: Louise Erdrich, Garth Nix & Jennifer Mathieu
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Ellen Cregan is reading Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
I’ve just finished reading Jennifer Mathieu’s young adult novel. This is the story of Vivian, a teenager living in small-town Texas. As far back as anyone can remember, Vivian’s school has worshipped their football team. The boys on the team are untouchable – they can say what…
The Stella Prize longlist 2018
The longlist for this year’s Stella Prize has been announced. This $50,000 prize is awarded for the best work of literature, fiction or non-fiction, published in 2017 by an Australian woman.
Chair of the Stella Prize judging panel, Fiona Stager, says: ‘Our longlist challenges the reader to experience the pleasures of reading different forms of writing: speculative fiction, novella, memoir, biography, non-narrative nonfiction, history, short stories and work in translation. Included on the longlist are authors who have inverted genres…
Six kids books we love this month
This month’s round of children’s books is abundant with ghosts, islands, animals and brave socially-aware youngsters.
Room On Our Rock by Kate Temple and Terri Rose Baynton
Three seals (and an occasional crab) occupy a large rock in this unconventional and high-impact picture book that can be read both forwards and backwards. When two more seals show up – in great peril from a wild ocean – the resident seals seem very certain that they can accept no newcomers on…
Six teen books we love this month
Fantasy, futurism, gritty realism and dark fantasy sit side-by-side in our YA recommendations for this month.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Two teenagers find themselves inducted into the ways and mysteries of a secretive order in the new novel from beloved sci-fi author Neal Shusterman. Scythe takes place on a future AI-governed Earth where immortality has become the norm, and overpopulation is combated by random ‘gleanings’ undertaken by Scythes.
After witnessing and acquitting themselves well during a gleaning, sixteen-year-olds Rowan Damisch…
Gifts to cement your status as the cool aunt/uncle
Last week, a Gen-X friend of mine asked me for advice on books to gift his voraciously well-read, book-loving niece for her fourteenth birthday. She’d given him an impressively eclectic list of authors she liked, ranging from Jennifer Niven to Christopher Pike; Georgia Blain to David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas!). This was one seriously adventurous reader.
So, I advised my friend (who is the kind of person who likes to induct people into bands they never knew they would…
Best new crime reads of the month
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
If I Die Before I Wake by Emily Koch
Sometimes, when reading a gripping crime novel, you feel almost paralysed with helplessness as things go terribly wrong for your protagonist and all you can do is read in a panic as the author leads them to certain doom.
This feeling is crystallised in If I Die Before I Wake, when, from the very first page, we are in the mind of Alex Jackson, a…
The International Dylan Thomas Prize longlist 2018
The longlist for this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced,.
This Prize is run in partnership with Swansea University and is awarded to the best literary work in the English language written by an author under aged 39 and under. The winning author will receive £30,000.
This year’s longlist of 12 books comprises eight novels, two short story collections and two volumes of poetry.
The 12 longlisted titles are…
Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Kumukanda by Kayo…
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