April 4, 2019 A Spotlight on the Wellcome Book Prize By Rebecca Foster Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, the Wellcome Book Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, a global…
July 9, 2018 The Golden Booker Celebration Who will win in 2018? Do share your longlist predictions… Report by Annabel When I booked my ticket for this event a couple of…
July 7, 2018 The Man Booker Prize at 50: ‘The ones that got away’ It’s not always the case (or often?) that judges and readers are all in agreement on longlists, let alone the shortlists or eventual winners…
July 6, 2018 The Man Booker Prize at 50: 2009-2017 And finally, this fifth decade brings us up to date with previous winners of the Man Booker Prize. In 2010, the organisation decided to…
July 5, 2018 The Man Booker Prize at 50: 1999-2008 The prize’s fourth decade marked the first time, in 2001, that the longlist was revealed to the world at large. It decade also marked…
July 4, 2018 The Man Booker Prize at 50: 1989-1998 During the prize’s third decade, for the second time in its history, two books tied for top spot in 1992. Then, in 1993, the…
July 3, 2018 The Man Booker Prize at 50: 1979-1988 The second decade of the prize, apart from producing the “Booker of Bookers” in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, was enlivened by some tight judging decisions….
July 2, 2018 The Man Booker Prize at 50: 1969-1978 When the Booker Prize was inaugurated, prizes for literature were rather looked down upon, they just didn’t make much impact. Tom Maschler looked at…
July 1, 2018 Introducing Shiny’s Booker Week Dear Readers, The Booker Prize will be 50 years old this year. The longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize will be announced on…
June 22, 2017 The Stella Prize and its 2017 Winner By Isobel Blackthorn Could there ever be enough literary prizes to satisfy the ambition of authors? For a very small literary market, Australia has…
April 19, 2016 The Eds Discuss: Literary Festivals As some of the big literary festivals kick off this year’s lit fest season, Annabel, Harriet, Simon and Victoria discuss them: The literary festival…
January 28, 2016 Make Room For Me: Organising a Literary Conference Written by Noreen Masud ‘The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won’t they, and for everybody else.’ (Stevie…
October 27, 2015 Bloody Scotland Crime-writing Festival, Stirling, 11-13 September 2015 Report by Linda Boa After arriving somewhat later than planned in Stirling, all I wanted to do was find the lovely guesthouse I was…
October 7, 2015 Interview with David Bradley, winner of the NHE Essay Prize 2015 Ingrid Wassenaar met up with David Bradley, winner of the second Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize for his essay ‘A Eulogy for Nigger’ for a conversation….
October 7, 2015 An extract from the NHE Essay Prize winner From ‘A Eulogy for Nigger’ by David Bradley DETROIT. Hundreds of onlookers cheered . . . as the National Association for the Advancement of…
July 23, 2015 The IFFP Ceremony: A Report from the Shadow Jury Text by David Hebblethwaite The Florence Hall at the London headquarters of RIBA (the Royal Institute of British Architects) is a suitably grand space…
July 23, 2014 The Eds discuss… the Man Booker longlist and literary prizes in general By the Shiny New Books Editors The four SNB Editors had a round robin e-mail discussion about our reactions to the announcement of the…
July 4, 2014 Philipp Meyer and Linda Spalding talk to Kirsty Wark at Hay By Linda Spalding The Hay Festival is mythic to Canadians. What I mean is that we all covet an invitation. Mine came by email…
