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The Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2009
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This is a new award open to outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine. The Trust created the £25,000 annual award to bring together the traditionally diverse fields of medicine and literature. The Wellcome Trust has announced its first ever shortlist. All titles are now available in the library.
2009 Winner
Keeper by Andrea Gillies.
Good extended reading for A level girls who would like to pursue Sciences / Medicine / Psychology
Shortlist
Illness by Havi Carel
Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon
Keeper by Andrea Gillies
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
Three Letter Plague by Jonny Steinberg
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
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Blue Peter Book Award 2010
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2010 Winner
Frozen in time / Ali Sparkes
A thrilling adventure of two cryogenically frozen children from the 1950s, brought back to life in 2009 has been crowned the Blue Peter Book of the Year at this year’s Blue Peter Book Awards.
The author Ali Sparkes, who previously worked as a Bluecoat in Pontins, a sequined assistant to a juggling unicyclist and a comedy columnist for Radio 4’s Home Truths, was announced as the winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award 2010 with her book Frozen in Time.
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Booktrust Teenage Book Prize 2009
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The graveyard book / Neil Gaiman
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THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2010
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Neil Gaiman / The graveyard book.
The Graveyard Book, for readers of nine years and over, is the spooky reworking of Kipling's The Jungle Book. The story opens with the violent murder of a toddler's parents and sister that manages to be horrifying without mentioning a drop of blood. The two year old, having escaped their fate, finds himself in a graveyard. There he is adopted by its resident ghosts who bring him up and call him Bod, short for Nobody Owens.
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Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009
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Best Book
Rana Dasgupta / Solo
Best First Book
Glenda Guest / Siddon Rock
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Costa Book Awards 2009
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Costa Book of the Year - Christopher Reid / A Scattering
• Costa Novel Award Winner - Colm Toibin / Brooklyn
• Costa First Novel Award Winner - Raphael Selbourne / Beauty
• Costa Biography Award Winner - Graham Farmelo / The Strangest Man
• Costa Poetry Award Winner - Christopher Reid / A Scattering
• Costa Children's Book Award Winner - Patrick Ness / The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, Book Two)
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Forward Prize for Poetry 2009
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Don Paterson Rain
Emma Jones The Striped World
Robin Robertson At Roane Head
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The Guardian First Book Award 2009 winner
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2009 Winner
An Elegy for Easterly, by Petina Gappah, Faber (short story) - Describes the lives of people in Zimbabwe caught up in a situation over which they have no control, as they deal with spiralling inflation, power cuts and financial hardship, and cope with issues common to all people everywhere; failed promises, disappointments and unfulfilled dreams. more
2009 Other Shortlisted
• The Wilderness, by Samantha Harvey, Cape (novel)-It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. More
• The Selected Works of TS Spivet, by Reif Larsen, Harvill (novel)-T S Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a tight-lipped cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone... More
• The Rehearsal, by Eleanor Catton, Granta (novel)-A novel about the unsimple mess of human desire, at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd expose of emotional compromise. A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency... More •
• A Swamp Full of Dollars, by Michael Peel, IB Tauris (non-fiction)- Through a host of characters, from the prostitutes of Port Harcourt to the Area Boys of Lagos, from the militants in their swamp forest hide-outs to the oil company executives in London, this title tells the story of Nigeria, which grows ever more... More
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ManBooker Prize for Fiction 2009
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Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel
Synopsis
Set in England in the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey’s clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.
The longlist for the 2010 prize will be announced on 27 July 2010
The shortlist will be announced on 7 September 2010
The winner will be announced on 12 October 2010
Keep visiting the Man Booker Prize website for the latest news and sign up to receive regular email updates.
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Nobel Prize for Literature 2009
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Herta Muller
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Orange Prize for Fiction 2010
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Barbara Kingsolver / The Lacuna
Synopsis
Born in the US and reared in a series of provincial households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing mother, Salomé; his fortunes remaining insecure as Salomé finds her rich men-friends always on the losing side of the Mexican Revolution.
Harrison aims for invisibility, observing his world and recording everything in his notebooks with a peculiar selfless irony. Life is what he learns from servants putting him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs on the streets. Then, one day, he ends up mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist, Diego Riviera – which leads to a job in Riviera’s house, where Harrison makes himself useful to the muralist, his wife Frida Kahlo and the exiled Bolshevik leader, Lev Trotsky.
A violent upheaval sends him to the US. In Carolina, he remakes himself in America’s hopeful image and finds an extraordinary use for his talents of observation. But political winds continue to volley him between north and south, in a story that turns many times on the unspeakable breach – the lacuna – between truth and public presumption.
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Red House Children’s Book Award 2009
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Blood ties / Sophie McKenzie
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Royal Society Prize for best science writing 2009
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2009 Winner
The age of wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science by Richard Holmes, published by Harperpress ISBN: 9780007149520
The longlist for this year’s Royal Society Prize for Science Books – the world’s most prestigious award for science writing – has been announced. The judges selected a longlist of twelve books:
We Need To Talk About Kelvin by Marcus Chown (Faber and Faber)
The judges said: “We found ourselves applying ideas from this book to the world around us, turning suppositions on their heads and understanding complicated scientific concepts far more easily than we expected.
Why Does E=mc2? By Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Da Capo Press, Perseus Books Group)
The judges said: “It’s the most famous equation that exists but few people actually know what it means. This book could change that – it’s beautifully written and not afraid to tackle really challenging physics.”
Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne (Oxford University Press)
The judges said: “There are lots of books on Darwin and evolution, but this is a marvellous entry point - really engaging with wonderful historical anecdotes.”
In Search of the Multiverse by John Gribbin (Allen Lane, Penguin Press)
The judges said: “This is a book that aims to tackle difficult, complex questions in physics and succeeds, managing to both explain things and leave us pondering the subject for days afterwards.”
Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic by Frederick Grinnell (Oxford University Press)
The judges said: “Don’t be put off by the cover, this is the most accessible and comprehensible book on how science is done that we’ve ever come across – indispensible to anyone who wants to understand the science behind the headlines.”
God’s Philosophers: How the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science by James Hannam (Icon Books)
The judges said: “This book is a revelation, contradicting the popular idea of the Middle Ages as the “dark” ages, mapping key progressions during an era none of us associate with scientific advances and celebrating the lesser known mathematicians, “philosophers” and anatomists on whose shoulders modern science stands.
Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen (Bloomsbury)
The judges said: “This book, from a key figure in climate science offers first hand insight into the politics and vested interest that surrounds the debate. An excellent, authoritative and important history of climate change research, written in an engaging way.”
Darwin’s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England by Steve Jones (Little, Brown)
The judges said: “Many books on Darwin focus on the Galapagos as if Darwin came home and that was it. This book redresses the balance, delving into ideas Darwin developed from his studies of the English countryside that surrounded him.”
Life Ascending by Nick Lane (Profile Books)
The judges said: “This book is a well thought out exploration of the building blocks of biological science – straightforward and convincing.”
The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist (Yale University Press)
The judges said: “McGilchrist welcomes you straight into his world, without making too many presumptions about what you already know, presenting beautiful ideas in an eminently readable and engrossing manner.”
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell (Oxford University Press)
The judges said: “This book does a great job of connecting different fields to provide an accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to the complicated subject of complexity.”
A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack (Avery Books, Penguin Group)
The judges said: “This book gives a clear historical picture of the relationship between ice and climate . A very accessible and powerful perspective on climate change.
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