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*** 4th August *** - Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at the age of 89. His novels were beautifully crafted damning indictments of the repressive Soviet regime, and played a significant role in ending communism. In 1970, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His mast famous novels being The First Circle, Cancer Ward and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
'Meet the Author' - see video clips of authors introducing one of their books:
Fall under a 'Wicked' spell with Gregory Maguire! An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. An Oz for grown-ups with religion, politics, racial tensions and humour... as moving and tragic as it is refreshing and scurrilous, an outstanding novel.
July - The Winner of Best of the Booker. Readers around the world have voted Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, winner of Best of the Booker, a one-off award to celebrate 40 years of the prestigious literary award The Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
As part of the 2008 National Year of Reading we're branching out and launching a new website! theGreenStory.co.uk is a creative writing competition designed to encourage reading and writing while at the same time raise awareness of the environment. Each month you can logon and read the story so far, and then write what you think the next chapter should be, or you can read the submitted entries for that month and vote for your favourite to become the next chapter! The competition will run for 10 months to create a book with 10 chapters and will then be published as 'The Green Story' at the end of the year and sold in time for Christmas, with all proceeds going to the Woodland Trust.
Our books of the day
