Awards, Awards, Awards

Galaxy Book Awards - Shortlist:
Barack Obama has both is books on the shortlist, The Audacity of Hope for Best Author and Dreams from My Father for Biography of the year. Other titles on the various shortlists includes White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry and Diana Athill's Towards the End. Awards night is April 3rd so keep an eye out for the winners.

Talking of winners Alastair Sawday walked off with three prizes at the Independent Publishers Guild Awards. The Special Places series publisher was recognised at Trade Publisher of the Year, Overall Publisher of the Year and the IPG Environment Award.

Also this week the winners of the Europe and South Asian region Commonweatlth Writers Prize included Jhumpa Lahiri for Unaccustomed Earth and Mohammed Hanif with A Case of Exploding Mangoes.

This weekend saw the major reviews of Julie Myerson's hugely contentious The Lost Child. The book is now in stock in the bookshop so get a copy for yourself and decide!