Guardian first book award 2012: hunt for the 10th title
Do you know of a brilliant literary debut? As the deadline looms for entries to this year's first book award, we're launching the search for the 10th title for the longlistThere's just a week left for publishers to enter books for the 2012 Guardian fir...
Jane Lovering wins romantic novel of the year with first book
Please Don't Stop The Music, offering an 'unexpected hero from a fresh new voice', pips The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie ThomasAn indie rock star and a woman with a dark past form the unlikely couple at the heart of Jane Lovering's Please Don't Stop the Musi...
Aharon Appelfeld scoops Independent foreign fiction prize
Israeli author's dark tale of a Jewish boy taken in by a prostitute during the second world war 'glows on the page', said judgesInspired by his experiences during the Holocaust, a novel by the 80-year-old Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld has won the Ind...
Locating the books with the strongest sense of place
The Ondaatje prize shortlist includes novels from Rahul Bhattacharya and Teju Cole, but which are your favourite books which evoke 'the spirit of a place'?The shortlist for perhaps my favourite of the literary awards has just been announced: the Ondaat...
No laughing matter
Post-crash tale of London life takes on Discworld novel in shortlist for books that capture PG Wodehouse's 'comic spirit'Hailed as the great post-crash state of the nation novel, Capital by John Lanchester would likely appear more comfortable on a shor...
Out in paperback: May fiction
Some prize picks appear this month, including Madeline Miller's intricate The Song of Achilles, Georgina Harding's Painter of Silence and Erin Morgenstern's enchanting The Night CircusTwo Orange prize-shortlisted novels appear in paperback this month. ...
Christopher Priest rumpus ensured a vintage year for Arthur C Clarke award
Jane Rogers' breakthrough win – and the brouhaha surrounding Priest's attack on the authors and judges – made for a classicI've been going to the Arthur C Clarke awards ceremony at the Apollo cinema in London for four years now, and have always reg...
