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| + | |title=Bring up the Bodies | ||
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| + | Thomas Cromwell is now very far from his humble beginnings. He is Henry VIII's chief minister. Katherine of Aragorn is no longer Queen. The Princess Mary has been disinherited. Anne Boleyn wears the crown and has produced a daughter, Elizabeth. But there is no sign of a son and Henry is beginning to regret his secession from Rome. We pick up from [[Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel|Wolf Hall]] during the royal progress of 1535 and from there, we chart the destruction of the new Queen. | ||
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|title=Days of the Bagnold Summer | |title=Days of the Bagnold Summer | ||
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|genre=Graphic Novel | |genre=Graphic Novel | ||
| − | |summary= | + | |summary= Meet Daniel Bagnold. He is a surly, sullen, modern teenager, permanently in a black hoodie, with long, lanky hair and almost a monobrow, who one would call very quiet were it not for the metal music that forms almost his only interest. He has been forced to spend the summer, not in Florida with his absent father's new family, but with his librarian mother Sue, his best friend and his shyness. He doesn't want much, and neither it would appear does his mother – although she knows she has to get him some posh shoes for her cousin's wedding. This book is about their relationship – the two of them and the dog that completes the household – in telling, devastating and humorous manner. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090844</amazonuk> | ||
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'''First Novel Award''' | '''First Novel Award''' | ||
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| − | |title=The | + | |title=The Innocents |
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| − | |summary= | + | |summary=Francesca Segal's debut novel, ''The Innocents'' is set in upper class, Jewish, North London. Adam is about to marry his childhood sweetheart, Rachel, and is working as a lawyer in her father's business. Into this romantic idyl though comes Ellie, Rachel's wayward cousin who has been forced to flee the US following an appearance in an 'art house' movie of dubious repute and, it turns out, further scandal. Ellie is everything that Rachel is not; a model, worldly, sexy and tempting. As Adam gets drawn into wanting to 'rescue' her and look after her, his whole future with Rachel is thrown into doubt and the story becomes a will they, won't they get together narrative. |
| − | |amazonuk=<amazonuk> | + | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186992</amazonuk> |
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| + | ''The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder'' by J W Ironmonger | ||
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| − | + | ''The Bellwether Revivals'' by Benjamin Wood | |
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| − | |author= | + | |author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot |
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| − | |summary= | + | |summary= If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joyce's daughter, it should be Mary M Talbot. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with the same names too - James and Nora, both took to the stage when younger after going to dance school, but it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]]. |
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|author=Artemis Cooper | |author=Artemis Cooper | ||
| − | |title=Patrick Leigh | + | |title=Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure |
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| − | |summary= | + | |summary=The sub-title of this biography is highly appropriate, for the ninety-six years of Patrick Leigh Fermor were packed with adventure. Born in 1915, he was something of a maverick at school, intellectually gifted but perpetually naughty, and his punishments for various refractions included suspensions and even expulsions. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719554497</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719554497</amazonuk> | ||
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| − | |summary= | + | |summary=Selina Guinness lived at Tibradden as a child and in 2002 she and her husband-to-be, Colin Graham, moved back to the house when her elderly uncle Charles became frail. The surname might lead you to suspect that there were brewery millions in the background but this wasn't the case. The couple were young academics and doing what needed to be done at Tibradden would need to be done in addition to full-time jobs. The house was on the outskirts of Dublin - 'derelict fields' if you were a property developer or the last defence against the encroaching city if you were not. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844881571</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844881571</amazonuk> | ||
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|title=Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household | |title=Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household | ||
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| + | Biographies old and new of Queen Victoria, her husband and her children are plentiful enough. The vast majority of them are based to some extent on the diaries, memoirs and biographies of some of the most important figures who served her, and Kate Hubbard has put these as well as supplementary archive papers to good use in presenting a thoroughly engrossing account of the royal household throughout the Queen’s lengthy reign. I might almost say ‘lively’, though that could be an exaggeration. The court of Victoria may have been homely after a fashion, but for the most part it was hardly lively. | ||
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183683</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183683</amazonuk> | ||
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'''Children's Book Award''' | '''Children's Book Award''' | ||
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471400042</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471400042</amazonuk> | ||
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|genre=Teens | |genre=Teens | ||
| − | |summary= ( | + | |summary=Jody and Jolene are very alike. They have brown hair and dimples, they're both left-handed and they have feet which makes them look, according to Jody, like long-toed mutants. But in lots of ways they are very, very distinct. In fact, despite the fact that they're twins, they were born on different days and are different ages (because of the leap year thing. Read the book if you don't believe it). And as for their taste in music, school subjects and pretty well everything else . . . poles apart. Useful, though, as they divvy up their homework according to preference! |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330523023</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330523023</amazonuk> | ||
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| + | [[category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Prize 2012]] | ||
Revision as of 14:20, 10 May 2018
Overall Winner
Novel Award
Category Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
First Novel Award
Category Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by J W Ironmonger
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
Biography Award
Category Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
Poetry Award
We don't review poetry, but here's a list of the runners and riders:
Category Winner
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
Other Books on the Shortlist
Bee Journal by Sean Borrowdale
The World’s Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill
Children's Book Award
Category Winner
Other Books on the Shortlist
