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Greetings from Amazon.co.uk Awards Delivers
Edited by Nicola Perry

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* Pick of the Awards
The Guardian First Book Award
* 1999 Booker Prize Winner
Lisa Jardine interviews J.M. Coetzee
* The Nestle Smarties Book Prize
* The 1999 Kurt Maschler Award Shortlist

***PICK OF THE AWARDS***
The Guardian First Book Award, launched in 1999, aims to
recognise and reward new writing across fiction and
non-fiction. It reflects the wide range of writing on the
Guardian books pages and underpins the paper's commitment to
finding undiscovered writers waiting for that vital break.
The award, for first time authors, is open to books from
genres including fiction, poetry, biography, memoirs, history,
politics, science and current affairs. Here is the shortlist
of potential winners, announced on Saturday:

"We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow We Will Be
Killed with Our Families" by Philip Gourevitch
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0330371207/entertainments08

"Ghostwritten" by David Mitchell
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0340739746/entertainments08

"Boxy an Star" by Daren King
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/034911191X/entertainments08

"The Blue Bedspread" by Raj Kamal Jha
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0330373854/entertainments08

"No Place Like Home" by Gary Younge
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0330369806/entertainments08

"Lighthouse Stevensons" by Bella Bathurst
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0002570068/entertainments08

***1999 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER***
J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace" has proved a popular choice for the
1999 Booker Prize. Lisa Jardine, who backed the winner, was
at the Guildhall and, in an exclusive article for Amazon.co.uk,
asks whether the grand old days of book prizes for serious
writing achievement have finally returned.
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***The Nestle Smarties Book Prize***
The Nestle Smarties Book Prize is unique in that children from
across the country decide the actual winners from a shortlist
prepared by a panel of adult judges, including Julia Eccleshare,
Children's Book Editor at the Guardian, and Sue Heap, well-known
author and illustrator. The prize is designed to highlight the
best new fiction and poetry books for children and to encourage
children to read and enjoy those books. The full shortlist is
as follows:

Age 5 and under:
"The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0333710924/entertainments08

"Buffy--an Aventure Story" by Bob Graham
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0744561922/entertainments08

"I Wish I Were a Dog" by Lydia Monks
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0416195040/entertainments08

Ages 6-8:
"Snow White and the Seven Aliens" by Laurence Anholt
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/1860396100/entertainments08

"Clarice Bean That's Me" by Lauren Child
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/1841210293/entertainments08

"Astrid, the Au Pair from Outer Space" by Emily Smith
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/055254616X/entertainments08

Ages 9-11:
"Kit's Wilderness"
by David Arnold
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0340727160/entertainments08

"Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging"
by Louis Rennison
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/1853405140/entertainments08

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
by J.K. Rowling
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0747542155/entertainments08

***THE 1999 KURT MASCHLER AWARD SHORTLIST***
The Kurt Maschler Award is an annual prize for "a work of
imagination for children, in which text and illustration are
integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."
This year's judges are Nicolette Jones (journalist), Chris
Powling (teacher and children's writer) and Margaret Meek an
authority on children's books). The winner will be announced
at a presentation at the Atrium Bookshop in London on
6th December.

"The Tale of the Turnip" by Brian Alderson,
illustrated by Fritz Wagner
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0744549108/entertainments08

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll,
illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0744561248/entertainments08

"Stories from West Africa" by Robert Hull,
illustrated by Tim Clarey
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/075022424X/entertainments08

"Me and My Cat" by Satoshi Kitamura
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0862649250/entertainments08

"Elf Hill" by Naomi Lewis
illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0711214263/entertainments08

"Castle Diary" by Richard Platt
illustrated by Chris Riddell
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0744528801/entertainments08

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