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Death of Bees wins Commonwealth Book Prize
We are delighted to announce that Lisa O’Donnell has won the overall prize in this year’s Commonwealth Book Prize, for her first…
Dam Busters a bestseller
We’re delighted to report that James Holland’s latest book, Dam Busters has reached 2nd place, now in its second week in the Sunday…
Three Awards for Light Between Oceans
We are delighted to announce that The Light Between Oceans, the debut novel by M L Stedman, has won in three categories at…
The Big Music on James Tait shortlist
We are delighted to announce that Kirsty Gunn is on this year’s James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist, for her novel
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- Dam Busters a bestseller
- Three Awards for Light Between Oceans
- The Big Music on James Tait shortlist
- Light Between Oceans Shortlisted for Golsboro / HWA Prize
- A Sting in the Tale a Bestseller
- Death of Bees wins Regional Commonwealth Prize
- Light Between Oceans on Richard and Judy
- Katie Kitamura Shortlisted for Young Lions Award
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A Shed of One’s Own
We are delighted to report that Marcus Berkmann’s A Shed of One’s Own will be BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, starting on 23rd January.
For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are bald, fat and washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity and respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying a motorbike.
Marcus Berkmann isn’t having it. Having marked his fiftieth birthday by hiding under his duvet for six weeks, the author of the cricket classics Rain Men and Zimmer Men is now determined to find some light in the all-consuming darkness. Musing over birth, death and all the messy stuff in between, he concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror today, it will be much worse in ten years’ time. His brutally candid despatch from the frontline is not for the faint-hearted, which is to say anyone under thirty-five.
A Shed of One’s Own will be published on the 19th January, and is available for pre-order online.
11 Jan 2012