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News: Shortlists Announced for Three Book Categories in the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010

Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3, in partnership with the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA), are pleased to announce three key book shortlists for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards on ITV3, celebrating the very best of British and International crime thriller fiction in the UK and beyond.

The content of ITV3’s brand new Crime Thriller Season of accompanying documentaries is also announced today at the Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.

News: Launching on Monday 5th July, the Best Audiobooks of the Year 2010 features the best in audio publishing from April 2009 – March 2010. Comprised of four categories – fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s – the objective is to showcase the very best audiobooks, and the resulting shortlist features a diverse collection of audio ranging from Shakespeare to Charlaine Harris.

News: The 2010 Crime Thriller event takes place on October 8th at Grosvenor House Hotel. Please contact Merric for ticket information:
merric@agile-ideas.com

The newly commissioned season begins on ITV3 on August 29th and runs for 6 weeks up to the event.
The shortlist selection for the 3 key book awards is now a two-stage process: with a ‘shortlist’ of 8 titles announced on July 23rd at Harrogate Crime Festival and ‘Finalists’ of 4 titles in each category announced by ITV on August 9th.

News: Eight books that are set to become this summer’s must-read holiday favourites have been announced as the latest titles in the Summer Read, the seasonal spin off of the hugely popular TV Book Club. The list has previously spawned big name authors including Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton.

Funded by Specsavers, the eight-part series screens weekly on More4 on Sunday evenings from 27 June, with repeats on Channel 4 the following day. Each week, anchor presenters, Jo Brand and Dave Spikey, will join two other celebrity presenters and a celebrity guest to critique each title, with viewers invited to read along.

News: With almost 5,000 votes cast ‘comic fantasy’ novel Skulduggery Pleasant is the nation’s favourite in nationwide competition to find the favourite book of the Noughties

The ‘Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards’ have today announced the winner of their Irish Book of the Decade competition. With almost 5,000 online votes cast over the last month, ‘comic fantasy’ novel Skulduggery Pleasant by Dubliner Derek Landy, has topped the web-poll to decide the nation’s favourite Irish Book of the Decade.

News: The contest for The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Book of the Decade is hotting up with the announcement of the ten frontrunners in the current voting announced on Friday 14th May. The list is emblematic of the diversity which Irish Book Awards’ has consistently tried to foster with four wonderful literary novels sitting alongside two young adult titles, two popular fiction titles and two bestselling bestselling biographies. Voting closes on May 27th but the voting figures are tight so it’s not too late to hoist your favourite book into contention.

News: The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Book of the Decade promotion was launched today (April 14th 2010).

At a time when Irish writers have never enjoyed greater esteem both at home and abroad, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Irish Book of the Decade shortlist was devised in order to chronicle the story of Ireland over the last decade as told through the eyes of Irish authors.

News: From the 19th April the whole first series of The TV Book Club will be aired daily on Channel 4 at 12.05pm.

News: Romantic Novelists’ Association celebrates 50th anniversary at glittering awards ceremony.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOURS FOR MAEVE BINCHY AND JOANNA TROLLOPE
London, 16 March 2010: The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) today marked their 50th Anniversary by honouring two of the world’s best-selling and much-loved authors, Maeve Binchy and Joanna Trollope, with Lifetime Achievement Awards for their contributions to this ever popular, block-busting genre. The winners were announced today at the RNA’s Pure Passion Awards lunch at the Royal Garden Hotel, London, hosted by critic and TV personality Barry Norman.

News: Bord Gáis Energy has signed a three-year headline sponsorship agreement with the Irish Book Awards, the only fully inclusive awards ceremony celebrating the wealth of Irish writing talent across the entire publishing industry. This partnership is part of Bord Gáis Energy’s overall strategy to promote the importance and enjoyment of reading to people of all ages. The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards, which are supported by Irish book retailers, publishers and authors alike, are now accepting submissions on www.irishbookawards.ie.