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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 '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.

theGreenStory.co.ukAs 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

Candlemoth by R.J. Ellory
R.J. Ellory is the author of six novels including the bestselling A Quiet Belief In Angels, in Candlemoth his debut novel, a man who is on death row after being condemned for killing his best friend tells his story to a priest. Daniel Ford has thirty-six days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan twelve years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long walk to the electric chair. All he can do is make peace with his God.
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Addition by Toni Jordan
It's the penultimate week of Richard and Judy's Summer Reads, and this week they're featuring Addition a unique and witty debut novel by Toni Jordan. Grace is obsessed with numbers. She counts everything from the amount of steps she takes to the café, to the number of poppy seeds on her slice of orange cake. When Grace has a chance encounter with a charming and attractive stranger, her life is turned upside down. With such an ordered life how will she possibly cope with something as chaotic as love?
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Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Written in diary mode and brilliantly funny, the self-obsessed observations of teenager Georgia Nicolson are very funny and not a little outrageous. The 'Angus' of the title is her mad wild ginger cat who terrorises the neighbour's poodle; the 'thongs' are what the girlfriend of the sex-god she is in love with wears; and 'full-frontal snogging' is what she dreams of experiencing. Not surprisingly this caused controversy when it was shortlisted for 9-11 category of the Smarties Award. (Suitable for 12+yrs)
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