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July 2010 Newsletter

COMPETITION: Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex - COMING 20 JULY 2010!

Artemis Fowl And The Atlantis Complex coverHave Artemis Fowl’s criminal ways finally got the better of him? To celebrate the publication of the new Artemis Fowl adventure we are offering fans the chance to win an exclusive signed hardback copy. To enter call into your local branch of Dubray Books today to pick up a competition entry form or email susan@dubraybooks.ie. Closing date for entries 18th July and the winners will be notified on Publication Day - the 20th July.

Artemis Fowl is ‘Best-Ever Puffin’

Irish author Eoin Colfer claimed his ‘proudest professional moment’ as his tale of a 12-year-old criminal mastermind beat Roald Dahl and E.B. White to win the ‘Puffin of Puffins’. Choosing one classic from each decade of its 70 years in existence, Puffin asked readers to vote for their favourite. With over eight million Artemis Fowl books sold, it is no surprise that over 68% of the 10,000 voters selected Artemis Fowl.

Impac Award 2010

Gerbrand Bakker became the first Dutch writer to win the International Impac Dublin Literary Award from an outstanding shortlist of seven other titles, including Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland. In Bakker’s novel, The Twin, the narrator resigns himself to a life of isolation after the death of his twin, but fate intervenes with the arrival of his twin’s former fiancée and her son.

Orange Prize for Fiction 2010

Barbara Kingsolver has won the Orange Prize for fiction with her epic novel The Lacuna (see our June Recommended Reads for a full review). It is an epic story about Mexico, McCarthyism and the intertwined love lives of the firebrand painter Frida Kahlo, her husband Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky, that took Barbara Kingsolver nearly a decade to write.

CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010

The UK’s most prestigious children’s literature prize has been awarded to The Graveyard Book by fantasy novelist Neil Gaiman. It is the story of a child, Nobody Owens, who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard. Among other awards, the book also won America’s top children’s fiction prize, the Newbery medal in 2009.

José Saramago

Portuguese novelist, José Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87. One of his best-known novels is Blindness, written in 1995, which tells the story of a country whose entire population lose their sight. His final work, The Elephant’s Journey, is due out in August.

 

TV Book Club Summer Read

Channel 4 have returned with a new series of the TV Book Club. We have a limited number of magazines detailing each of the featured books with commentary and questions perfect for book clubs. Pick one up in your local branch or let me know if you would like one posted out.

Fresh from the Sea by Clodagh McKenna

Clodagh McKenna is back on your TV screens with a new series of Fresh from the Sea. Dubray Books are offering the accompanying cookbook at €5 off the RRP. Available in all branches at €14.99.

Hot New Releases

• The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller
• South of Broad by Pat Conroy
• I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
• The Time is Now by Pauline McLynn
If you would like to reserve any of these books in your local branch please email info@dubraybooks.ie

BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2010 WINNER

Nothing To Envy coverAn account of life in North Korea drawn from interviews with defectors has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Nothing to Envy, by Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick, was described by the chairman of the judges as "gripping and moving" and “ hard to put down” despite the grim topic. Subtitled Real Lives in North Korea, Demick's book tells of six North Korean citizens living in the only country in the world not connected to the internet.

Inaugural Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

Growing in popularity in recent years, historical fiction now has its own award and the first gong has been awarded to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall. Also winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, the author received a prize of stg£25,000.

Griffin Poetry Prize 2010

One of Ireland’s most respected poets, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanain, has been awarded the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize for her most recent collection, The Sun-Fish. The international award, which was announced at a ceremony in Canada in June, seeks to recognise major poetry published in both English and in translation.

Jeffrey Deaver named latest James Bond author

Jeffrey Deaver has been signed up by Ian Fleming Publications to write the next James Bond novel. Currently known as Project X the book will be published on 28th May 2011 – marking Ian Fleming’s birthday. The US author follows in the footsteps of Sebastian Faulks, whose Devil May Care was published in 2008 to mark the centenary of Fleming’s birth. The new novel will be set in the present day.

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