News Archive
2007
Orwell winner is Having it So Good
Novel joins non-fiction on Mind books shortlist
'Big and serious' books contend for Orange New Writers award
Road takes McCarthy to Pulitzer
Shopping carts beat green Nazis to title prize
Impac awards announce all-male shortlist
Doctor Who battles tortoise for book prize
Crappest town seeks poetic champions
Spoils split at Nibbie awards
Readers get first glimpse of final Potter
Pullman grants film rights to Dutch independent
Bush's daughter bags book deal
High bids expected for rare Chaucer edition
Pamuk believed to be in exile in US
Arundhati Roy returns to fiction
Man in contention for romantic novel prize
Surprise win for Canadian epic at inaugural Costa award
Penguin plans 'wiki-novel'
New Sara Coleridge poems uncovered
2006
Llewellyn Rhys award for tale of African child soldier
Bookstart founder honoured
Time-travel and rough and tumble on Carnegie longlist
Gordon Brown plans children's book party
US supreme court throws out Da Vinci suit
World's richest books prize announces longlist
Public to vote for Carnegie of Carnegies
Zadie Smith to judge 2007 Willesden Herald competition
Deal takes Microsoft futher into Google territory
Foyle Young Poets take on politics
Dunmore in contention for Nestle prize
Authors beg Rowling: don't kill Harry
Murakami and Tremain on Frank O'Connor shortlist
Mary Watson wins 'African Booker'
Meek scoops another award
McEwan wins oldest literary prize
A tale of two tongues
Guardian writer wins Ondaatje prize for Russian civil war novel
Fringe offers and eclectic alternative to Hay
Borrowed life of Barnardo's child wins prize
Anxious Man wins world's richest short story prize
'African Booker' shortlist crosses continent
Monica Ali and Zadie Smith are in the minority, finds survey
Fuentes leads Latino line-up at Hay
Veterans dominate Carnegie medal shortlist
Per Petterson wins Independent Foreign Fiction prize
Alderman makes second bid for Orange prize
Ali Smith hits the shortlists again
Eastern Europe dominates foreign fiction shortlist
Harper Lee tops librarians' must-read list
Prince Maurice shortlist announced
Nibbies could spell tears for Piers
'Richard and Judy effect strikes again'
Decibel award shortlist announced
Joyce tops poll of most valuable books
Zadie Smith wins Commonwealth regional prize
Unknown Byron manuscript discovered
'Love story' prize unveils longlist
Man shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year award
Children's party at the palace
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2005
Fringe benefits for Hay
Hay visitors asked to donate books to African readers
Bryson wins Descartes prize
Books of the year 2005
Stiff competition for Bad Sex award
Vatican appoints official Da Vinci Debunker
Betting patterns point to Potter leak
Praise for 'forest-friendly' Harry Potter
Biography of homeless man wins Guardian First Book award
Short story scores with new prize and Amazon project
First-timers triumph on Samuel Johnson shortlist
Samuel Johnson longlist celebrates variety
Authors auction chance to name characters
Foreign language poems to enter waiting rooms
Cross-continental shortlist for 'African Booker'
Poem about being human chosen for alien contact
Pamuk picks up French prize
Final 10 braced for Impac
Susanna Clarke scoops sci-fi award
New Venture for new writing
Canterbury angles for its own poets' corner
Relativity rhymes
Nigerian debut makes John Llewellyn Rhys shortlist
Children's laureateship goes to Jacqueline Wilson
Levy scoops third award for Small island
Waterstone's celebrates fiction's villains
Longlist for literature's richest prize announced
Blue Peter award for Morpurgo's first world war children's novel
Book deal for spare time writer
Gothic novel takes teen prize
13-year-olds win award for 'fabulous fiction' website
All Booker up: World Book Day news roundup
New Writing Ventures announces inaugural award-winners
Would-be writers wow each other
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2004
Greenpeace steps up 'forest friendly' campaign
Caine prize winner announced
Kingston university buys Murdoch library
Moroccan novelist wins €100,000 Impac prize
Shortlist announced for 'African Booker'
Wolfe scoops Bad Sex award
Guardian first book award goes to biology lecturer
Fictional diaries make dent on Impac
Caine prize winner announced
Pratchett stars on comic fiction shortlist
Magic triumphs at Smarties prize
BaskinHughes collection arrives at the British Library
Kudos for northern rock
Yann Martel to open Orange Word festival
Armitage to judge Griffin prize
Bristol plants a reading seed
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Pre-2004
River homage wins TS Eliot prize
Second Hugo for Gaiman
Black comedy debut takes Wodehouse
Michael Morpurgo is third children's laureate
New literary prize goes for gold
East-west story takes rich Impac
June date for Harry Potter 5
Middlesex bags Pulitzer prize for fiction
Strong shortlist for African Booker
Richard and Judy introduce their summer reading list
Kenya celebrates Caine prize double
Orange prize turns outsider into hot property
No £64,000 chance for Atonement
Flight of fancy up for travel award
Quirky tomes in richest non-fiction prize race
US author captures zeitgeist of England
Bestsellers make impact on eclectic longlist
Coben takes the Thumper
Booker's day of the giant-killers
Fingersmith is book-buyer's Booker choice
Rohinton Mistry wins Kiriyama award
Holocaust writer wins Nobel Prize
Ancient murder tale takes top Dagger award
David Baddiel joins the official Booker panel
Pin-striped tumble wins Bad Sex award
Veteran novelist tipped for Booker prize
Spirit of revolt lives on in Prague
Mailer takes on Hemingway
Miller gives lukewarm backing to Gore