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Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>88</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/holtjackson" /><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" uri="holtjackson" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-6701277112838641187</id><published>2011-12-06T12:10:00.004Z</published><updated>2011-12-06T12:16:01.411Z</updated><title type="text">TV Book Club 2012</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xc0imKcTSoY/Tt4GrPerStI/AAAAAAAAAlc/KbtI07tZ8XQ/s1600/2011%2BTV%2BBook%2BClub%2Blogo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 154px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 155px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682987119747484370" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xc0imKcTSoY/Tt4GrPerStI/AAAAAAAAAlc/KbtI07tZ8XQ/s200/2011%2BTV%2BBook%2BClub%2Blogo.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Askews and Holts Library Services are now accepting pre-orders for the forthcoming “TV Book Club” which is coming to More4 and Channel 4 in January 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new series starts on January 29th and runs until 1st April every Sunday night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The titles are subject to a strict embargo, however, you can order the 10 books now by filling in &lt;a href="http://www.holtjackson.co.uk/promotions/bookpromotions/TV_Book_Club_2012.doc" target="_blank"&gt;this order form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-6701277112838641187?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/6701277112838641187/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=6701277112838641187" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/6701277112838641187" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/6701277112838641187" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2011/12/askews-and-holts-library-services-are.html" title="TV 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/&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Approvals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Approval collections will be delivered as normal up until Friday 16th December 2011 and will resume w/c 3rd January 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deliveries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normal deliveries will continue until Thursday 22nd December and will resume on Tuesday 3rd January 2012, except for Scotland which will resume on Wednesday 4th January 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are expecting a delivery on these days but will not be open for business please contact us as soon as possible – &lt;a href="mailto:allcustserv@askewsandholts.com"&gt;allcustserv@askewsandholts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-9049701522327299261?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" 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/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-1002627568865250806</id><published>2011-01-18T15:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-02-01T15:10:33.933Z</updated><title type="text">The Bookseller launches site to oppose library closures</title><content type="html">&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568738605569867410" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TUgiQd_-_pI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/vcKx-9KhgdQ/s400/164751_135045579893684_134767896588119_241378_2884365_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Article from The Bookseller...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The Bookseller has launched a campaign to oppose the "wantonly destructive cuts to the national library service".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Called 'Fight for Libraries', the campaign will be centred around a Facebook site where news about library cuts and opposition to them will be reported, and which will also function as a hub for all news, sites and information on the struggle against library cuts. The site will operate from http://bit.ly/fight4libraries and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fight4libraries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The next few weeks are critical to the future of libraries in this country, and to the literary culture they help support. Up to 800 libraries are faxed with the axe in the coming days. The Government backed-down over Booktrust over Christmas, and its watering down of tuition fees, shows that it is not immune to pressure, whilst history has shown that local councils will back down on library closures once they realise the depth of local opposition. I don't think David Cameron wants to be remembered as the Prime Minister who closed down all the libraries," says editor-in-chief of The Bookseller Neill Denny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Facebook site hosts a manifesto and a set of demands, with The Bookseller supporting the calls for a national public enquiry into the library service, demanding a halt to the unfair and disproportionate targeting of libraries for cuts, and calling for the 1964 Libraries Act to be observed in letter and spirit. It also has a poll asking people to commit to supporting libraries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Libraries are under threat right now. A library lost today will not be re-opened tomorrow - the book trade has to take a stand," added Denny. "Please use the site to see what is going on and update it with developments in your own area. We'd like you to engage with our Facebook page, let us know who you are, give us your views and post useful links. Our campaign can offer a focal point for all interested parties and thereby form a stronger voice together."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-1002627568865250806?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/1002627568865250806/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=1002627568865250806" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/1002627568865250806" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/1002627568865250806" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2011/01/bookseller-launches-site-to-oppose.html" title="The Bookseller launches site to oppose library closures" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TUgiQd_-_pI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/vcKx-9KhgdQ/s72-c/164751_135045579893684_134767896588119_241378_2884365_n.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-2506658647736160779</id><published>2011-01-05T09:19:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-01-12T09:56:17.556Z</updated><title type="text">Costa Awards 2010</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TS1y9wxDZkI/AAAAAAAAAj4/NxN8kjLN3eE/s1600/costa_book_awards.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 66px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561227520260662850" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TS1y9wxDZkI/AAAAAAAAAj4/NxN8kjLN3eE/s400/costa_book_awards.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Costa has announced the Costa Book Awards 2010 winners in the Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book categories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are..... &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;•Novelist and former journalist, Maggie O'Farrell, who wins her first major literary prize with her fifth novel, The Hand That First Held Mine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•Kishwar Desai who takes the First Novel Award for Witness the Night, which explores India's hidden female infanticide and the first book of a series featuring the unconventional female protagonist, Simran Singh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•Potter and ceramic artist, Edmund de Waal, who collects the Biography Award for his highly-acclaimed memoir, The Hare With Amber Eyes, which the judges called ‘a truly special book'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•Jo Shapcott who wins the Poetry Award for Of Mutability, her first new work in over a decade in part influenced by her experience of cancer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•Debut writer and web designer, Jason Wallace, who beats best-selling author Jonathan Stroud to claim the Children's Book Award for Out of Shadows&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The overall winner will be announced on 25th January.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-2506658647736160779?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/2506658647736160779/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=2506658647736160779" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/2506658647736160779" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/2506658647736160779" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2011/01/costa-has-announced-costa-book-awards.html" title="Costa Awards 2010" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TS1y9wxDZkI/AAAAAAAAAj4/NxN8kjLN3eE/s72-c/costa_book_awards.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-4603132302266904809</id><published>2010-12-14T09:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-01-19T09:41:44.850Z</updated><title type="text">Oneworld Classics</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TTaxbyVOD4I/AAAAAAAAAkI/ZBS6MG_nSYU/s1600/oneworld.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 91px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563829480588185474" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TTaxbyVOD4I/AAAAAAAAAkI/ZBS6MG_nSYU/s320/oneworld.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Oneworld Classics series includes the greatest recognized masterpieces of all time, from every literature and genre, but also tries to redefine and enrich the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. Most of the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus and extra reading material. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Oneworld Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have the order forms for the &lt;a href="http://www.holtjackson.co.uk/promotions/bookpromotions/OWC1.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Evergreens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.holtjackson.co.uk/promotions/bookpromotions/OWC2.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Unjustly Neglected&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; collections. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For more details visit &lt;a href="http://www.oneworldclassics.com/"&gt;http://www.oneworldclassics.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-4603132302266904809?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/4603132302266904809/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=4603132302266904809" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/4603132302266904809" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/4603132302266904809" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/12/oneworld-classics.html" title="Oneworld Classics" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TTaxbyVOD4I/AAAAAAAAAkI/ZBS6MG_nSYU/s72-c/oneworld.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-539444237842571820</id><published>2010-12-01T16:32:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-12-01T16:37:56.757Z</updated><title type="text">The TV Book Club 2011</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TPZ5XQPHzdI/AAAAAAAAAjc/61eYarhVhMc/s1600/TV_Book_Club.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 135px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 135px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545753431555689938" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TPZ5XQPHzdI/AAAAAAAAAjc/61eYarhVhMc/s320/TV_Book_Club.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;There will be a new ten-part series of the TV Book Club starting in January 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The titles, which include two Man Booker shortlistees, two debuts and two non-fiction are - &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Room&lt;/em&gt; by Emma Donoghue&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Long Song&lt;/em&gt; by Andrea Levy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The News Where You Are&lt;/em&gt; by Catherine O'Flynn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Even the Dogs&lt;/em&gt; by Jon McGregor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bleed for Me&lt;/em&gt; by Michael Robotham&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spies of the Balkans&lt;/em&gt; by Alan Furst&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Junior Officer's Reading Club&lt;/em&gt; by Patrick Hennessey&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks&lt;/em&gt; by Rebecca Skloot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tiger Hills&lt;/em&gt; by Sarita Mandanna&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Last Duchess&lt;/em&gt; by Daisy Goodwin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="/center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email Gemma Fiorello on &lt;a href="mailto:Gemma.Fiorello@holtjackson.co.uk"&gt;Gemma.Fiorello@holtjackson.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; with how many sets you would like to order and we’ll do the rest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Promotional material is available from the Reading Agency website using this &lt;a href="http://shop.readingagency.org.uk/productslist.aspx?typecode=ADULTS&amp;amp;typecode1=TVB"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-539444237842571820?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/539444237842571820/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=539444237842571820" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/539444237842571820" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/539444237842571820" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/12/tv-book-club-2011.html" title="The TV Book Club 2011" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TPZ5XQPHzdI/AAAAAAAAAjc/61eYarhVhMc/s72-c/TV_Book_Club.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-1641914602886290159</id><published>2010-12-01T11:38:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-12-01T12:05:14.640Z</updated><title type="text">Christmas Opening Hours 2010</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TPY0S-m2q8I/AAAAAAAAAjU/VTeSe2p30zw/s1600/HJ.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 72px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545677491801598914" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TPY0S-m2q8I/AAAAAAAAAjU/VTeSe2p30zw/s320/HJ.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Holt Jackson will close for business at 5.00 pm on Wednesday 22nd December 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our office will re-open on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th December before closing again until Tuesday 4th January 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Approvals&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Approval collections will be delivered as normal up until Friday 17th December 2010 and will resume w/c 4th January 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Deliveries&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normal deliveries will continue until Wednesday 22nd December and will resume on Wednesday 5th January 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are expecting a delivery on these days but will not be open for business please contact us as soon as possible – customerservices@holtjackson.co.uk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01 December 2010. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-1641914602886290159?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/1641914602886290159/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=1641914602886290159" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/1641914602886290159" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/1641914602886290159" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-opening-hours-2010.html" title="Christmas Opening Hours 2010" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TPY0S-m2q8I/AAAAAAAAAjU/VTeSe2p30zw/s72-c/HJ.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-7659562995114265280</id><published>2010-11-17T10:23:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-11-17T12:10:25.939Z</updated><title type="text">Costa Book Awards Announced</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TOPGKAfa_QI/AAAAAAAAAjM/cN-MEu8Vvts/s1600/Costa.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 192px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 181px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540489841828625666" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TOPGKAfa_QI/AAAAAAAAAjM/cN-MEu8Vvts/s400/Costa.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indie publishers have scored highly on the shortlists for this year's Costa Book Awards, with three titles from Faber, plus Beautiful Books, Quartet and Welsh publisher Gomer in the running.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The First Novel Award category for the prize, which is for the “most enjoyable” books published between between 1st November 2009 and 31st October 2010, is dominated by indies with Kishwar Desai's Witness the Night (Beautiful Books), Nikesh Shukla's Coconut Unlimited (Quartet Books), Simon Thirsk's Not Quite White (Gomer Press) and Aatish Taseer's The Temple-Goers (Viking) in the running.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul Murray's Man Booker-longlisted Skippy Dies (Hamish Hamilton) is in the running for the 2010 Costa Novel of the Year Award, alongside Louise Doughty for Whatever You Love (Faber), Nigel Farndale's The Blasphemer (Doubleday) and The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell (Headline Review).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The First Novel Award category is dominated by indies with Kishwar Desai's Witness the Night (Beautiful Books), Nikesh Shukla for Coconut Unlimited (Quartet Books), Aatish Taseer for The Temple-Goers (Viking) and Simon Thirsk's Not Quite White (Gomer Press) in the shortlist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Costa Biography Award shortlist comprises Sarah Bakewell for How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer (Chatto), Michael Frayn for My Father’s Fortune (Faber) and Edmund de Waal for The Hare with Amber Eyes (also Chatto)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jo Shapcott's collection Of Mutability (Faber) has made the poetry category, alongside Roy Fisher's Standard Midland (Bloodaxe), Robin Robertson's The Wrecking Light (Picador), and Sam Willetts' New Light for the Old Dark (Cape Poetry).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in the children's category, two titles from Andersen Press, Sharon Dogar's Annexed and Jason Wallace's Out of Shadows are in the shortlist, alongside Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud (Doubleday) and Lucy Christopher's Flyaway (the Chicken House).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-7659562995114265280?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/7659562995114265280/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=7659562995114265280" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/7659562995114265280" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/7659562995114265280" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/11/costa-book-awards-announced.html" title="Costa Book Awards Announced" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TOPGKAfa_QI/AAAAAAAAAjM/cN-MEu8Vvts/s72-c/Costa.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-5981921086003682277</id><published>2010-11-12T13:34:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-11-12T13:37:33.919Z</updated><title type="text">Galaxy National Book Awards Winners 2010</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TN1DEIHS8OI/AAAAAAAAAjE/xpL-izafd0A/s1600/Galaxy.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 192px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 181px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538656854912200930" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TN1DEIHS8OI/AAAAAAAAAjE/xpL-izafd0A/s400/Galaxy.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The winners of the Galaxy National Book Awards 2010, a celebration of the best of British publishing, have now been revealed at a star-studded awards ceremony at London's prestigious BBC Studios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winners are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TESCO BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry (Penguin Group)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TESCO FOOD &amp;amp; DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (Random House)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NATIONAL BOOK TOKENS NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (Random House)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE4 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Making Of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr (Pan Macmillan)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SAINSBURY'S POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One Day by David Nicholls (Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WATERSTONE'S UK AUTHOR OF THE YEAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Harper Collins)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GALAXY INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Harper Collins)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WH SMITH CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zog by Julia Donaldson &amp;amp; Axel Scheffler (Scholastic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terry Pratchett&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martin Amis &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-5981921086003682277?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/5981921086003682277/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=5981921086003682277" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/5981921086003682277" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/5981921086003682277" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/11/galaxy-national-book-awards-winners.html" title="Galaxy National Book Awards Winners 2010" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TN1DEIHS8OI/AAAAAAAAAjE/xpL-izafd0A/s72-c/Galaxy.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-5480738347490873175</id><published>2010-11-09T13:00:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-11-09T14:19:27.397Z</updated><title type="text">Customer Announcement November 2010</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TNkvYDe8MfI/AAAAAAAAAi8/8uQQKY0W7eQ/s1600/HJ.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 90px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537509307127181810" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TNkvYDe8MfI/AAAAAAAAAi8/8uQQKY0W7eQ/s400/HJ.GIF" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;The Holt Jackson Book Company Ltd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Customer Announcement November 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;As our business continues to expand, our holding company The Little Group, has taken the decision to further strengthen our standing in the library supply market with the merger of The Holt Jackson Book Company Ltd and Askews Library Services Ltd. From March 1st 2011 the combined company, will be &lt;strong&gt;Askews and Holts Library Services Ltd&lt;/strong&gt;, continuing to operate from Preston with staff from both companies coming together as one team. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a time of budget constraints and spending reviews, this merger will have a positive effect for both Holt Jackson and Askews customers, with the enhanced combination of services, efficiencies and security that this merger offers. Our decision will bring together two specialist library supply companies that enjoy first class reputation for innovation and for exceeding customer expectations. The Directors and Senior Management of both companies are keen to start working closely together and to continue moving the business forward and drive the agenda in library supply. David Fisher and Andy Holland, supported by fellow directors Kathryn Pattinson, Jaqui Holborn and Tim Cotterall, will shortly be visiting all customers and taking the opportunity over the next few weeks and months to outline details of merging the two companies. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The merged company will be formally announced in Spring 2011 with a series of country wide road shows, which will highlight our combined services portfolio on offer, including the rollout of our eBook service. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;If you have any questions or concerns in the meantime with regard to your current business, please contact your Sales Manager directly who will be happy to discuss them with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kathryn Pattinson&lt;br /&gt;Managing Director&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 2010 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-5480738347490873175?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/5480738347490873175/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=5480738347490873175" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/5480738347490873175" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/5480738347490873175" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/11/holt-jackson-book-company-ltd-customer.html" title="Customer Announcement November 2010" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TNkvYDe8MfI/AAAAAAAAAi8/8uQQKY0W7eQ/s72-c/HJ.GIF" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-6097649504418605998</id><published>2010-11-09T10:06:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-12-07T14:04:44.043Z</updated><title type="text">Quick Reads 2011</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TNkduUxntMI/AAAAAAAAAik/60swDU2BHUQ/s1600/wbd_logo_2011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 159px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 260px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537489898516755650" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TNkduUxntMI/AAAAAAAAAik/60swDU2BHUQ/s320/wbd_logo_2011.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A brand new set of Quick Reads has been announced for World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adults' Quick Reads, 10 TITLES (nil discount plus normal servicing charges)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children's WBD Titles, 11 TITLES (6 BOOKS) (nil discount plus normal servicing charges or a jacket only at a cost of 25p per book).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To guarantee prompt arrival of titles in time for World Book Day, orders placed using the form below will be prioritised at all stages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To place your order, please complete &lt;a href="http://www.holtjackson.co.uk/promotions/bookpromotions/Quick_Reads_2011_Order_Form.xls" target="_blank"&gt;this form&lt;/a&gt; and return to Gemma Fiorello by &lt;b&gt;Friday 17th December 2010&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANY ORDERS RECEIVED AFTER THIS DATE WILL BE TREATED AS STANDARD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information on Quick Reads and other World Book Day initiatives, please &lt;a href="http://www.worldbookday.com/index.asp"&gt;&lt;b&gt;click here &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note - we will not be supplying promotional material. You can obtain free promotional packs from the Quick Reads website.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-6097649504418605998?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/6097649504418605998/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=6097649504418605998" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/6097649504418605998" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/6097649504418605998" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/11/quick-reads-2011.html" title="Quick Reads 2011" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TNkduUxntMI/AAAAAAAAAik/60swDU2BHUQ/s72-c/wbd_logo_2011.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-7545112699800705925</id><published>2010-10-29T09:08:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-29T09:17:28.330+01:00</updated><title type="text">Guardian First Book Award Shortlist</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMqCfbKxd5I/AAAAAAAAAic/4NYmZkulJfM/s1600/Book.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 117px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMqCfbKxd5I/AAAAAAAAAic/4NYmZkulJfM/s200/Book.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533378568558573458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Books that challenge orthodoxy and readers' expectations dominate the shortlist for this year's Guardian first book award, which includes a novel influenced by the African tradition of sung history, and a study of error that argues we should celebrate our ability to get things wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three novels and two non-fiction works are vying for the £10,000 prize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortlist is as follows&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, by Maile Chapman (Jonathan Cape);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black Mamba Boy, by Nadifa Mohamed (HarperCollins);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz (Portobello Books);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris (Thames &amp;amp; Hudson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winner of the prize will be announced on 1 December. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-7545112699800705925?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/7545112699800705925/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=7545112699800705925" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/7545112699800705925" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/7545112699800705925" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/10/guardian-first-book-award-shortlist.html" title="Guardian First Book Award Shortlist" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMqCfbKxd5I/AAAAAAAAAic/4NYmZkulJfM/s72-c/Book.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-2151045912390346587</id><published>2010-10-28T13:33:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-28T13:44:34.951+01:00</updated><title type="text">National Book Awards Announced</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMlv9Gkh0_I/AAAAAAAAAiU/tEDRj0awPAE/s1600/Galaxy.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 192px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 181px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533076712727892978" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMlv9Gkh0_I/AAAAAAAAAiU/tEDRj0awPAE/s200/Galaxy.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;National Book Awards Announced&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Former prime minister Tony Blair is among the contenders for the inaugural Galaxy National Book Awards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blair will compete alongside the Duchess of Devonshire and Lord Alan Sugar for the Tesco Biography of the year. Jamie Oliver's Jamie's 30 Minute Meals will be up against Nigel Slater and Nigella Lawson for the Tesco Food &amp;amp; Drink Book of the Year, while Jilly Cooper is in the running for Sainbury's Popular Fiction Book of the Year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2010 Man Booker shortlistees including Tom McCarthy, David Mitchell and last year's winner, Hilary Mantel, are also up for a gong as part of what Amanda Ross, m.d. of Cactus, which is behind the event, described as the “cream of British publishing”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winners of the eight categories will be awarded on 10th November. The ceremony will be broadcast on More4 on 13th November, followed by five further tie-in shows in the run-up to Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortlists in full:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Book of the Year &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dead Like You Peter James (Macmillan)&lt;br /&gt;The Ice Cream Girls Dorothy Koomson (Sphere)&lt;br /&gt;Jump! Jilly Cooper (Bantam Press)&lt;br /&gt;One Day David Nicholls (Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton)&lt;br /&gt;The Red Queen Philippa Gregory (Simon &amp;amp; Schuster)&lt;br /&gt;Worth Dying For Lee Child (Bantam Press)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non-Fiction Book of the Year &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex's Adventures in Numberland Alex Bellos (Bloomsbury)&lt;br /&gt;At Home Bill Bryson (Doubleday)&lt;br /&gt;D-Day Antony Beevor (Viking)&lt;br /&gt;The Making Of Modern Britain Andrew Marr (Pan)&lt;br /&gt;Must You Go? Antonia Fraser (Weidenfeld &amp;amp; Nicolson)&lt;br /&gt;Operation Mincemeat Ben MacIntyre (Bloomsbury)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National Book Tokens New Writer of the Year &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patrick Barkham The Butterfly Isles (Granta Books)&lt;br /&gt;Edmund de Waal The Hare with Amber Eyes (Chatto &amp;amp; Windus)&lt;br /&gt;Katherine Webb The Legacy (Orion)&lt;br /&gt;Rebecca Hunt Mr Chartwell (Fig Tree)&lt;br /&gt;Natasha Solomons Mr Rosenblum's List (Sceptre)&lt;br /&gt;Simon Lelic Rupture (Picador)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WH Smith Children's Book of the Year &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Great Hamster Massacre Katie Davies, illus Hannah Shaw (Simon and Schuster)&lt;br /&gt;Monsters of Men Patrick Ness (Walker Books)&lt;br /&gt;Mr Stink David Walliams (HarperCollins Childrens Books)&lt;br /&gt;Shadow Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins Childrens Books)&lt;br /&gt;TimeRiders Alex Scarrow (Puffin)&lt;br /&gt;Zog Julia Donaldson &amp;amp; Axel Scheffler (Alison Green Books)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tesco Food &amp;amp; Drink Book of the Year &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Flavour Thesaurus Niki Segnit (Bloomsbury)&lt;br /&gt;Jamie's 30 Minute Meals Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph)&lt;br /&gt;Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home Nigella Lawson (Chatto &amp;amp; Windus)&lt;br /&gt;Kitchenella Rose Prince (Fourth Estate)&lt;br /&gt;Plenty Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press)&lt;br /&gt;Tender II Nigel Slater (Fourth Estate)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tesco Biography of the Year &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coco Chanel, The Legend And The Life Justine Picardie (Harper NonFiction)&lt;br /&gt;Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010 Chris Mullin (Profile Books)&lt;br /&gt;The Fry Chronicles Stephen Fry (Michael Joseph)&lt;br /&gt;A Journey Tony Blair (Hutchinson)&lt;br /&gt;Wait For Me Duchess of Devonshire (John Murray)&lt;br /&gt;What You See Is What You Get Alan Sugar (Macmillan)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;International Author of the Year &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colm Toibin Brooklyn (Penguin)&lt;br /&gt;Jonathan Franzen Freedom (Fourth Estate)&lt;br /&gt;Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Quercus/MacLehose Press)&lt;br /&gt;Kathryn Stockett The Help (Fig Tree)&lt;br /&gt;Emma Donoghue Room (Picador)&lt;br /&gt;Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Tuskar Rock Press)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waterstone's UK Author of the Year &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom McCarthy C (Jonathan Cape)&lt;br /&gt;Maggie O'Farrell The Hand That First Held Mine (Headline Review)&lt;br /&gt;Kate Atkinson Started Early, Took My Dog (Doubleday)&lt;br /&gt;David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre)&lt;br /&gt;Rose Tremain Trespass (Chatto &amp;amp; Windus)&lt;br /&gt;Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-2151045912390346587?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/2151045912390346587/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=2151045912390346587" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/2151045912390346587" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/2151045912390346587" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/10/national-book-awards-announced.html" title="National Book Awards Announced" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMlv9Gkh0_I/AAAAAAAAAiU/tEDRj0awPAE/s72-c/Galaxy.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-6210644658650471596</id><published>2010-10-26T14:45:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-27T10:14:34.412+01:00</updated><title type="text">William Hill Winner Announced!</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMbdzmyCc6I/AAAAAAAAAiI/WK-e853zkEg/s1600/William-Hill-Logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532353070924723106" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMbdzmyCc6I/AAAAAAAAAiI/WK-e853zkEg/s200/William-Hill-Logo.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The shortlist for the 22nd William Hill Sports Book of the Year, worth a record £22,000, a £2000 free bet and a day at the races to the winner, has been unveiled -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Open &lt;/em&gt;by Andre Agassi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Trautmann's Journey&lt;/em&gt; by Catrine Clay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Last English Summer&lt;/em&gt; by Duncan Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blood Knots&lt;/em&gt; by Luke Jennings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beware of the Dog&lt;/em&gt; by Brain Moore&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bounce&lt;/em&gt; by Matthew Syed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The winner will be announced on 30th November. Who's your winner?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;For more details on the titles visit the COTW subject lists.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-6210644658650471596?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/6210644658650471596/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=6210644658650471596" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/6210644658650471596" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/6210644658650471596" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/10/shortlist-for-22nd-william-hill-sports.html" title="William Hill Winner Announced!" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TMbdzmyCc6I/AAAAAAAAAiI/WK-e853zkEg/s72-c/William-Hill-Logo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-3246582301052202737</id><published>2010-10-13T09:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-13T09:46:43.826+01:00</updated><title type="text">Howard Jacobson wins the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TLVx3luh9XI/AAAAAAAAAiA/aT3CJi_bG1s/s1600/christianity-a-history-howard-jacobson-biography_412x232.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 112px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527449317501171058" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TLVx3luh9XI/AAAAAAAAAiA/aT3CJi_bG1s/s200/christianity-a-history-howard-jacobson-biography_412x232.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Howard Jacobson is named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Finkler Question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;London author and columnist Howard Jacobson has been longlisted twice for the prize, in 2006 for Kalooki Nights and in 2002 for Who's Sorry Now, but has never before been shortlisted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sir Andrew Motion, Chair of the judges comments ‘The Finkler Question is a marvellous book: very funny, of course, but also very clever, very sad and very subtle. It is all that it seems to be and much more than it seems to be. A completely worthy winner of this great prize.'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-3246582301052202737?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/3246582301052202737/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=3246582301052202737" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3246582301052202737" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3246582301052202737" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/10/howard-jacobson-wins-man-booker-prize.html" title="Howard Jacobson wins the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TLVx3luh9XI/AAAAAAAAAiA/aT3CJi_bG1s/s72-c/christianity-a-history-howard-jacobson-biography_412x232.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-478586535615979930</id><published>2010-10-07T09:18:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-10-13T09:41:30.793+01:00</updated><title type="text">Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TLVwjt4MQxI/AAAAAAAAAh4/aQM9THGspjc/s1600/foto-de-mario-vargas-llosa-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527447876580164370" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TLVwjt4MQxI/AAAAAAAAAh4/aQM9THGspjc/s200/foto-de-mario-vargas-llosa-7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mario Vargas Llosa's publisher at Faber has hailed the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature as "a writer of enormous range, passion and insight".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Nobel foundation awarded the prize to Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-478586535615979930?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/478586535615979930/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=478586535615979930" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/478586535615979930" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/478586535615979930" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/10/mario-vargas-llosa-wins-nobel.html" title="Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TLVwjt4MQxI/AAAAAAAAAh4/aQM9THGspjc/s72-c/foto-de-mario-vargas-llosa-7.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-7387200094099634037</id><published>2010-09-01T10:50:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-15T16:33:44.007+01:00</updated><title type="text">New 'on-line' Richard and Judy Book Club Launched</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4j8CMLCEI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/tCBEFfHv2e4/s1600/richardjudy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 162px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511882508235114562" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4j8CMLCEI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/tCBEFfHv2e4/s200/richardjudy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The eight titles selected for the book club are -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sister&lt;/em&gt; by Rosamund Lupton &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Place of Secrets&lt;/em&gt; by Rachel Hore&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; by Jo Nesbo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wilding&lt;/em&gt; by Maria McCann&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;No and Me&lt;/em&gt; by Delphine de Vigan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Waiting for Columbus&lt;/em&gt; by Thomas Trofimuk &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Crying Tree&lt;/em&gt; by Naseem Rakha &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Operation Mincemeat&lt;/em&gt; by Ben MacIntyre&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Richard and Judy Book Club will launch across W H Smith stores from tomorrow (2nd September).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pair will review one book every fortnight and post their reviews online at www.whsmith.co.uk/richardandjudy. On the website there will also be live interviews with authors and reviews from other readers. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-7387200094099634037?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/7387200094099634037/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=7387200094099634037" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/7387200094099634037" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/7387200094099634037" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-on-line-richard-and-judy-book-club.html" title="New 'on-line' Richard and Judy Book Club Launched" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4j8CMLCEI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/tCBEFfHv2e4/s72-c/richardjudy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-3177714889304092129</id><published>2010-08-25T14:02:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-01T11:07:49.679+01:00</updated><title type="text">Libraries must not be a 'soft touch' for cuts - The Bookseller Article</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4lxHH3QaI/AAAAAAAAAgo/kz-ij3vHTGc/s1600/The_Reading_Agency_logo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 137px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 74px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511884519603913122" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4lxHH3QaI/AAAAAAAAAgo/kz-ij3vHTGc/s320/The_Reading_Agency_logo.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A&lt;em&gt;rticle from The Bookseller...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Reading Agency has said libraries should "not be a soft target for cuts" after statistics released last week showed a continued decline in library visitors. The stats have led to a media blitz on the issue of libraries, with some campaigners suggesting that up to 1,000 libraries could be under threat from local government cuts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week, the Department for Culture, Media and Sports' (DCMS) Taking Part: The National Survey of Culture, Leisure and Sport report showed a 1.7% decrease in the number of library goers last year. But the agency said that digging deeper into the statistics showed that there was not just a "straightforward picture of a decline in public interest and take up". It said instead that children and young people's use was steady, with children's book borrowing rising for five years in a row.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Reading Agency also said the best libraries offered a range of groups, activities and services to deliver added value. It said "the social consequences of this more active approach are profound".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The agency singled out the Summer Reading Challenge for children, and the Six Book Challenge for emergent adult readers as two initiatives which have had a positive response from the public. The Summer Reading Challenge saw 725,000 children take part in 2009, an increase of 5% on the 2008 total. This year it is estimated more than 750,000 children will take part. For the Six Book Challenge 13,500 adults registered this year - up 50% on 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a statement the agency said: "In tough financial times, we cannot afford to undercut libraries' ability to create a nation of readers, our literacy skills deficit is already too large. The scale of cuts means the library network is unlikely to survive in its current shape, so prioritizing and innovating will be key."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It added: "We must not lose sight of libraries' radical social purpose ... They should not be a soft target for cuts." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-3177714889304092129?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/3177714889304092129/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=3177714889304092129" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3177714889304092129" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3177714889304092129" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/08/libraries-must-not-be-soft-touch-for.html" title="Libraries must not be a 'soft touch' for cuts - The Bookseller Article" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4lxHH3QaI/AAAAAAAAAgo/kz-ij3vHTGc/s72-c/The_Reading_Agency_logo.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-3085895775241444423</id><published>2010-08-23T15:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-01T11:22:11.845+01:00</updated><title type="text">James Tait Black Memorial Prizes - Winners Announced</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4ocXb_cOI/AAAAAAAAAgw/0D_zJcV7rPQ/s1600/James+Tait+Black.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511887461740933346" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4ocXb_cOI/AAAAAAAAAgw/0D_zJcV7rPQ/s320/James+Tait+Black.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Novelist A S Byatt and literary critic John Carey have been crowned winners of Britain’s oldest literary awards, the £10,000 James Tait Black Memorial Prizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Byatt was awarded the fiction prize for her Man Booker-shortlisted The Children’s Book at the ceremony on Friday (20th August), while Carey took home the biography prize for his book William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. Golding himself took home the prize in 1979.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prizes, founded in 1919, are for the best work of fiction and the best biography published during the previous 12 months. They are the only major British book awards judged by scholars and students.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-3085895775241444423?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/3085895775241444423/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=3085895775241444423" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3085895775241444423" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3085895775241444423" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/08/james-tait-black-memorial-prizes.html" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prizes - Winners Announced" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4ocXb_cOI/AAAAAAAAAgw/0D_zJcV7rPQ/s72-c/James+Tait+Black.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-8992332162903334341</id><published>2010-08-10T09:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-01T11:28:56.125+01:00</updated><title type="text">Finalists revealed for Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010.</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4qrISLcpI/AAAAAAAAAg4/Xa7Y0v8V5PQ/s1600/image7.png"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 143px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 113px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511889914394538642" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4qrISLcpI/AAAAAAAAAg4/Xa7Y0v8V5PQ/s320/image7.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The Dagger finalists are -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CWA GOLD DAGGER 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blacklands - Belinda Bauer&lt;br /&gt;Blood Harvest - S J Bolton&lt;br /&gt;Shadowplay - Karen Campbell&lt;br /&gt;The Way Home - George Pelecanos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2010&lt;/strong&gt;, SPONSORED BY IAN FLEMING PUBLICATIONS LTD&lt;br /&gt;A Loyal Spy - Simon Conway&lt;br /&gt;Innocent - Scott Turow&lt;br /&gt;The Dying Light - Henry Porter&lt;br /&gt;The Gentlemen's Hour - Don Winslow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acts of Violence - Ryan David Jahn &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Rupture - Simon Lelic&lt;br /&gt;The Holy Thief - William Ryan&lt;br /&gt;The Pull of the Moon - Diane Janes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winners will be announced on the 8th October at a ceremony broadcast on ITV3 on 12th October.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-8992332162903334341?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/8992332162903334341/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=8992332162903334341" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/8992332162903334341" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/8992332162903334341" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/08/finalists-revealed-for-specsavers-crime.html" title="Finalists revealed for Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010." /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TH4qrISLcpI/AAAAAAAAAg4/Xa7Y0v8V5PQ/s72-c/image7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-5566490604310384391</id><published>2010-06-21T09:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T09:34:34.241+01:00</updated><title type="text">Heinemann Library &amp; Raintree join forces</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TCHHCGTVm7I/AAAAAAAAAfo/Su2iquN607o/s1600/Raintree.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 281px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 107px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485884659979361202" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TCHHCGTVm7I/AAAAAAAAAfo/Su2iquN607o/s320/Raintree.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In 2008, Heinemann Library &amp;amp; Raintree was purchased by Capstone Publishers, a market leading company of school and library materials in the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In January 2010, the company rebranded as Raintree - incorporating Heinemann Library and Raintree under one banner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'By combing all our publishing under one respected imprint we hope to reduce confusion and build a strong identity with resources that captivate all readers. Raintree will continue to publish for struggling or reluctant readers, recognising that every library and classroom includes readers at a range of levels.' - &lt;em&gt;Raintree&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-5566490604310384391?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/5566490604310384391/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=5566490604310384391" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/5566490604310384391" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/5566490604310384391" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/06/heinemann-library-raintree-join-forces.html" title="Heinemann Library &amp; Raintree join forces" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/TCHHCGTVm7I/AAAAAAAAAfo/Su2iquN607o/s72-c/Raintree.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-8027938988898083718</id><published>2010-05-25T10:58:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T13:05:47.687+01:00</updated><title type="text">The TV Book Club 'Summer Reads'</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S_ugh2JE3YI/AAAAAAAAAfY/JQ_rALIQgZQ/s1600/TVbookclubLogo.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 306px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 96px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475146275328679298" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S_ugh2JE3YI/AAAAAAAAAfY/JQ_rALIQgZQ/s320/TVbookclubLogo.GIF" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Following on from the success of the first series earlier in the year, the TV Book Club returns for a new series, which will be broadcast from 27 June to 15 August. The series will run for 8 weeks, and each episode will be 30-minutes long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The promotion will run in libraries from the end of June until August 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The full list of selected titles will be announced next week so watch this space!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email Jim Bickerstaffe on james.bickerstaffe@holtjackson.co.uk with how many sets you would like to order and we’ll do the rest!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-8027938988898083718?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/8027938988898083718/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=8027938988898083718" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/8027938988898083718" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/8027938988898083718" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/05/tv-book-club-summer-reads.html" title="The TV Book Club 'Summer Reads'" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S_ugh2JE3YI/AAAAAAAAAfY/JQ_rALIQgZQ/s72-c/TVbookclubLogo.GIF" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-9011837421781648027</id><published>2010-04-14T09:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-19T09:57:09.656+01:00</updated><title type="text">Orange Award for New Writers 2010 - Shortlist</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S8wauS214KI/AAAAAAAAAe4/ATA6NMxkY54/s1600/image7790.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461769830731735202" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S8wauS214KI/AAAAAAAAAe4/ATA6NMxkY54/s320/image7790.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Launched in 2005 in partnership with Arts Council England, the Orange Award for New Writers celebrates emerging female literary talent. and potential.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortlisted titles are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale (9780007305735)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini (9780340918814)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld (9780224088879)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winner will receive a £10,000 bursary.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-9011837421781648027?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/9011837421781648027/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=9011837421781648027" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/9011837421781648027" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/9011837421781648027" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/04/orange-award-for-new-writers-2010.html" title="Orange Award for New Writers 2010 - Shortlist" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S8wauS214KI/AAAAAAAAAe4/ATA6NMxkY54/s72-c/image7790.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-3785562016717448887</id><published>2010-04-07T14:10:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T14:18:15.247+01:00</updated><title type="text">The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S7yF4vprNjI/AAAAAAAAAeg/R1_y0iV3Thw/s1600/short_second_life_bree_tanner.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 227px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457384058376631858" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S7yF4vprNjI/AAAAAAAAAeg/R1_y0iV3Thw/s320/short_second_life_bree_tanner.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Atom has announced that it will release the first new title from Stephenie Meyer in nearly 2 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a novella told from the point of view of Bree, a character originally featured in Eclipse. The novella will be released on&lt;b&gt;Saturday 5th June 2010&lt;/b&gt; and is priced at £11.99 in hardback.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is the riveting story of Bree Tanner, a newborn vampire first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the world she inhabits. The novella chronicles the newborn vampire army’s journey as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a title not to be missed –&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/" target="_top"&gt;&lt;img title="Image by FlamingText.com" border="0" alt="Image by FlamingText.com" src="http://blog.flamingtext.com/blog/2010/04/06/flamingtext_com_1270546403_2373.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-3785562016717448887?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/3785562016717448887/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=3785562016717448887" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3785562016717448887" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3785562016717448887" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/04/short-second-life-of-bree-tanner.html" title="The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S7yF4vprNjI/AAAAAAAAAeg/R1_y0iV3Thw/s72-c/short_second_life_bree_tanner.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313088486616030301.post-3919727036192634828</id><published>2010-03-19T13:44:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-04-07T14:03:49.880+01:00</updated><title type="text">Orange Prize for Fiction - Longlist</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S7yCXsuiHaI/AAAAAAAAAeY/laI2FJ2ogxM/s1600/Orange.png"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 215px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457380192121134498" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S7yCXsuiHaI/AAAAAAAAAeY/laI2FJ2ogxM/s320/Orange.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now in its 15th year, the Orange Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This years Longlist is as follows -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rosie Alison - The Very Thought of You&lt;br /&gt;Eleanor Catton - The Rehearsal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Clare Clark - Savage Lands &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Amanda Craig - Hearts and Minds &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Roopa Farooki - The Way Things Look to Me &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Rebecca Gowers - The Twisted Heart&lt;br /&gt;M.J. Hyland - This is How &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Sadie Jones - Small Wars&lt;br /&gt;Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna&lt;br /&gt;Laila Lalami - Secret Son &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Andrea Levy - The Long Song&lt;br /&gt;Attica Locke - Black Water Rising &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Maria McCann - The Wilding&lt;br /&gt;Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Nadifa Mohamed - Black Mamba Boy&lt;br /&gt;Lorrie Moore - A Gate at the Stairs&lt;br /&gt;Monique Roffey - The White Woman on the Green Bicycle &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Amy Sackville - The Still Point&lt;br /&gt;Kathryn Stockett - The Help &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortlist will be revealed on 20 April, with the winner announced at a ceremony on 9 June, where the prize of £30,000 will be presented. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2313088486616030301-3919727036192634828?l=holtjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/feeds/3919727036192634828/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2313088486616030301&amp;postID=3919727036192634828" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3919727036192634828" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2313088486616030301/posts/default/3919727036192634828" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://holtjackson.blogspot.com/2010/04/orange-prize-for-fiction-longlist.html" title="Orange Prize for Fiction - Longlist" /><author><name>Askews and Holts</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pEnvGyR6HKs/S7yCXsuiHaI/AAAAAAAAAeY/laI2FJ2ogxM/s72-c/Orange.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

