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Greetings from Amazon.co.uk Awards Delivers
Compiled by UK Editorial staff

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* Pick of the Awards
The Booker Prize 1999
* 1999 Prizewinning Books
The Orange Prize for Fiction
Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books
Glenfiddich Food & Drink Awards
The Arthur C. Clarke Award
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
* Amazon.co.uk Features: The New Guardian First Book Award
Interview with Toby Green who is "Saddled with Darwin"
Extract from "No Place Like Home" by Gary Younge


***PICK OF THE AWARDS***
The 1999 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced! Now in
its 31st year, The Booker Prize is Britain's best-known
literary award. The judges meet on 25 October to choose the
winner and the presentation will take place that evening at
Guildhall, London.
Booker Prize for Fiction, 1969-1999

On the shortlist are:
"Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0436204894/entertainments08
"Fasting, Feasting" by Anita Desai
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0701168943/entertainments08
"Headlong" by Michael Frayn
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0571200516/entertainments08
"Our Fathers" by Andrew O'Hagan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0571195024/entertainments08
"The Map of Love" by Ahdaf Soueif
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0747543674/entertainments08


***1999 PRIZEWINNERS***
The Orange Prize for Fiction 1999
"A Crime in the Neighbourhood" by Suzanne Berne
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0140273328/entertainments08

Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books 1999
"The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" by Paul Hoffman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/1857028295/entertainments08

The Glenfiddich Food & Drink Awards
Best Food Book Winner:
"Cod" by Mark Kurlansky
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0224051040/entertainments08
Best Drink Book Winner:
"The New Spain" by John Radford
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/1857322541/entertainments08

The Arthur C. Clarke Award 1999
"Dreaming in Smoke" by Tricia Sullivan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/1857985397/entertainments08

Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
"Stalingrad" by Anthony Beevor
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0140249850/entertainments08

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
"Ingenious Pain" by Andrew Miller
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0340682078/entertainments08


***AMAZON.CO.UK FEATURES: THE NEW GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD***
A distinguished panel of authors, including Amanda Foreman,
Simon Singh, Lisa Jardine and Trevor Phillips, will choose
the winner for the inaugural prize which is for both fiction
and nonfiction, and replaces the Guardian Fiction Prize.
Two hot contenders for the prize are "Saddled with Darwin" by
Toby Green, and "No Place Like Home" by Gary Younge.


Read the full shortlist, and get more information, at:
Guardian Fiction Prize, 1980-1998

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