Whitbread Book Awards

Hi All,

As it's getting for awards season I thought I'd post you all the Whitbread category winners.

The first novel award was won by Susan Fletcher who was up against the fiercesome competition of "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell". I'm pointing this out as we used to work together on the York Uni arts mag a long time ago and I'm very happy for her success.

I always used to be a bit sniffy about award-winning books, they often didn't live up tot hype, but I must say that "Eve Green" is an wonderfully poetic work and thoroughly deserves the attention it's getting.

Has anyone read any of the other category winners? Any speculations as to a winner?

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Read this. Any bookseller should rally to support this person, and curse Waterstones.

Well, obviously...

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Dammit.

I thought I'd do something interesting with my evenings so was looking at the courses at Birkbeck. One of the lit courses isn't running and the other is a certificate which runs according to the academic year so I've missed the first semester.

I was hoping to to get myself occupied with something which isn't me (introspection is something I often slip in to). Hey ho, looks like it may be back to watching Buffy and looking at blank pages.