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The Wellcome Trust Book Prize - longlist announced

7 September 2012 / News / 0 comments

The longlist for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize has been announced. It includes five novels and nine works of non-fiction: John Coates, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (Fourth Estate) Joshua Cody, [Sic] (Bloomsbury) Nick Coleman, The Train in the Night (Jonathan Cape) Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (Jonathan Cape) Peter James, Perfect People (Macmillan) Harry Karlinsky, The Evolution of Inanimate Object (The… more

Walking Home event with Simon Armitage

4 September 2012 / Events / News / 0 comments

Poet Simon Armitage will be guiding a walking tour in celebration of his book Walking Home, on Monday 10 September in Kirklees. The event Kirklees Libraries Reader Development and the Kirklees Physical Activity Team, and Health Walks groups have joined forces to organise this great event which is part of the South Pennine Walk and Ride Festival. We shall walk in a… more

Reading groups take part in our Asia House project

4 September 2012 / News / 1 comment

We're thrilled to be partnering with Asia House to reach more readers this year as part of their Festival of Asian Literature programme. Our aim is to introduce reading groups to new literature, authors and cultures. We partnered with four library services whose reading groups each received a set of books and reading guides for Behind the Beautiful Forevers… more

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