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April Reading Groups Round-up
Posted On: April 30, 2010Posted In: Reading Groups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Looking for a new title for your bookgroup or reading circle? Look no further – here are four very different titles that have reading group resources available right here on Bookhugger.
Read More...Joanna Kavenna: The Birth of Love
Posted On: April 30, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Joanna Kavenna’s first novel Inglorious won the Orange Broadband New Writers Award. Her forthcoming new book The Birth of Love is quite different but equally brilliant – interwoven stories exploring motherhood, often quite bleak and dystopian, featuring four characters (including real Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis, aka the ‘saviour of mothers’) across multiple time zones.
Read More...The Richard T. Kelly Column: What is to be Done? On political arguments in book-form
Posted On: April 29, 2010Posted In: Richard T. Kelly
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
With one week to go until the culmination of a fascinating General Election, Richard T. Kelly considers the art of the political argument in book form.
Read More...Stardust reading group guide
Posted On: April 29, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Reading Groups
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
This reading group guide for Stardust includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Joseph Kanon. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
Read More...Louise Doughty on Whatever You Love
Posted On: April 28, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Two police officers knock on Laura’s door. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed… So begins Whatever You Love, the new novel by Louise Doughty. Here’s Louise explaining more to Faber Editor, Sarah Savitt.
Read More...Make Live Art!
Posted On: April 28, 2010Posted In: News
Publisher: Sceptre
Inspired by the boundless imagination of author David Mitchell comes a day of interactive, innovative art. Join Sceptre and Subject to Change in the top gallery at Candid Arts Trust and participate in the construction of your own miniature community.
Read More...The Booklist: Where I went on my holidays
Posted On: April 28, 2010Posted In: The Booklist
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
As the holiday season is here, Bookhugger has compiled a selection of books on places where you may or may not wish to take your children…
Read More...Mr Rosenblum’s List – watch and win [closed]
Posted On: April 27, 2010Posted In: Competitions, Video
Publisher: Sceptre
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Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. Through study and application he intends to become a Very English Gentleman. Watch the video trailer and you could win one of 12 copies of Natasha Solomon’s debut novel.
Read More...Joseph Kanon’s Tour of Hollywood
Posted On: April 27, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Follow author Joseph Kanon on a tour of Hollywood as he takes us to the Hollywood of decades past and talks about the role it plays in his new book, Stardust
Read More...April non-fiction round-up – part two
Posted On: April 26, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Part two of our selection of the best non-fiction to be released in April, including fresh looks at the Gospels, insights in to the City of London and how to survive the end of civilisation as we know it!
Read More...Jonathan Jones on The Lost Battles
Posted On: April 26, 2010Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. Author Jonathan Jones discusses his new book The Lost Battles.
Read More...Orange Prize Shortlist 2010: enjoy a taste of everything
Posted On: April 24, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
With the Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist announced earlier this week, here are extracts or readings from all six of the shortlisted novels for you to enjoy – and we also have a competition.
Read More...Win the whole Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist [closed]
Posted On: April 24, 2010Posted In: Competitions
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
A fantastic opportunity for five lucky Bookhuggers to get all six of the titles on the recently announced shortlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Don’t say we’re not good to you…
Read More...Read the first chapter of The Very Thought of You, by Rosie Alison
Posted On: April 23, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Alma Books
Fresh from its shortlisting for the Orange Prize for fiction, enjoy the first chapter of this haunting coming-of-age novel.
Read More...Read the first chapter of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, by Monique Roffey
Posted On: April 23, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Enjoy an extract from The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, by Monique Roffey, freshly shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction.
Read More...April non-fiction round-up – part one
Posted On: April 22, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Part one of our selection of fantastic non-fiction releases from April – from the West Coast of American to Africa, from Nelson Mandela to Bonnie and Clyde, there’s something here for all tastes.
Read More...Read the first chapter of Orange Prize-shortlisted Black Water Rising
Posted On: April 22, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Enjoy Chapter One of Orange Prize for Fiction-shortlisted thriller Black Water Rising by Attica Locke – big oil and its twin, corporate corruption, meet their match with attorney Jay Porter.
Read More...The Book of Love reading group guide
Posted On: April 21, 2010Posted In: Reading Groups
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Cultures throughout Europe believed there was once a gospel written in Christ’s own hand, a treasure of almost unimaginable magnitude. It was referred to by the Cathar culture in France, who claimed to be direct descendants of Christ, as The Book of Love.
Read More...April contemporary fiction round-up – part two
Posted On: April 20, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
The second helping of our publishers’ fantastically varied fiction for these first few days of Summer…
Read More...The April Competition [closed]
Posted On: April 19, 2010Posted In: Competitions
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
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It’s competition time again, and a chance to win a fabulous selection of titles from the Bookhugger publishers.
Read More...A Matter of Life and Death: the back story
Posted On: April 19, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Canongate
Sue Armstrong, author of A Matter of Life and Death, shares with us her reasons for writing her book on pathology.
Read More...Jane Slayre reading group guide
Posted On: April 16, 2010Posted In: Reading Groups
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
This reading group guide for Jane Slayre by Charlotte Brontë and Sherri Browning Erwin includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
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