Book bites
20 September 2016 - 09:55
10 -the number of nominees for this year's National Book Awards. Fiction nominees include Colson Whitehead, Karan Mahajan and Adam Haslett. Nonfiction contenders include Viet Thanh Nguyen and Heather Ann Thompson. The five finalists in each category will be announced next month and the winners on November 16.The Royal Mail - which, in honour of the publication of Agatha Christie's first book and in commemoration of her 126th birthday, has issued a series of stamps containing hidden clues.Love Books in Melville - where Bridget Hilton-Barber will be in conversation with Ray Hartley at the launch of Hilton-Barber's new memoir Student Comrade Prisoner Spy tomorrow at 6.30pm. ..
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