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THE LUMINARIES Set for the Small Screen

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THE LUMINARIES Set for the Small Screen

Eleanor Catton 's Man Booker prize-winning novel, THE LUMINARIES, is to adapted by the author for the small screen. Set in 1866, the story follows prospector Walter Moody who travels to New Zealand try to make his fortune in the goldrush....

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08/26/2016 - 13:21
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David Szalay and Ottessa Moshfegh shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize 2016!

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Congratulations to David Szalay (ALL THAT MAN IS, Jonathan Cape) and Ottessa Moshfegh (EILEEN, Jonathan Cape) on being shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2016! The prize rewards literature which challenges perceived notions of genre and makes us think again about just what it is that we are reading....

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08/10/2016 - 11:07
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David Szalay and Ottessa Moshfegh longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016

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Huge congratulations to David Szalay and Ottessa Moshfegh on being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. David Szalay's critically-acclaimed novel ALL THAT MAN IS has been described as a 'beautifully crystallised vision of what it is for a man to be a particular age', and Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel...

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07/27/2016 - 12:33
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Simon Mawer's Tightrope wins the 2016 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

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Congratualtions to Simon Mawer on winning the 2016 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel Tightrope .

Tightrope follows Marian Sutro, who has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary London trying to pick up the pieces of her post-War life. It is Simon’s tenth novel;...

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06/27/2016 - 11:17
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