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The McIlvanney Prize 2022 Finalists Announced

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The finalists for The McIlvanney Prize 2022 have been announced, with Liam McIlvanney's THE HERETIC and Ambrose Parry's A CORRUPTION OF BLOOD among them. Congratulations to both! The winner will be announced on September 15th.

THE HERETIC

"An outstanding example of Tartan Noir [..] McIlvanney is a...

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09/07/2022 - 12:41
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WB Yeats’s to be celebrated in London at last

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W B Yeats , Nobel Laureate winning Irish poet who was raised in England, will have a statue unveiled to him today in Bedford Square, London. Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Atkinson, will unveil the tribute, which is the work of British sculptor Conrad Shallcross. As reported in the...

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09/06/2022 - 15:04
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MIRIAM MARGOLYES AND JOELLE TAYLOR NAMED ON POLARI PRIZE SHORTLISTS

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Congratulations to Joelle Taylor and Miriam Margolyes on this year's shortlisting!

Memoir, fiction, and vibrant poetry collections from a mixture of small presses and larger publishers are all recognised in the shortlists for this year’s Polari Prize and Polari First Book Prize, the UK’s only dedicated awards for LGBTQ+...

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09/06/2022 - 14:47
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TRUST by Hernan Diaz is longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

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"There is a dazzling intelligence behind this novel, which challenges us to rethink everything we know both about the institutions on which nations are built and the narratives by which stories are told. Sly, sophisticated, insistently questioning, Diaz writes with assurance, determined to rob us of every certainty." — The 2022 judges on TRUST

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07/27/2022 - 09:59
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