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News: A national poll to the find the audiobook of the year from the 20 titles in the 2010 selection is currently running at www.audiobooks.co.uk/vote2010. Voting ends at midnight on 10th September, with the winners announced at the Chiswick book festival on 19th September.
The current top ten titles with the most votes (on 12/08/10) are as follows - in alpha order:
Dead Tomorrow
Doctor Who: Dead Air
From Shakespeare With Love
Mrs Dalloway
Othello
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Colonel of Tamarkan
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Honourable Schoolboy

News: Channel 4 are planning to repeat the whole series of The TV Book Club Summer Read with episodes 1-4 shown Tuesday 17th August - Friday 20th August and episodes 5-8 shown Tuesday 24th August - Friday 27th August at 1pm.

News: The publicity campaign for the second series of Bookaboo will begin early November to coincide with the launch of the second series on ITV1. The 13 picture books chosen for the series will be announced soon.

The celebrities reading to Bookaboo in series II are:
Omid Djalili
Bernard Cribbina
Tamsin Egerton
Maisie Smith
Lorraine Kelly
Myleene Klass
Ricky Hatton
Samia Smith
Keith Allen
Emilia Fox
Lethal Bizzle
Adam Garcia
Johnny Vegas

News: The finalists in the three book categories of the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010 on ITV3, have been announced:

CWA GOLD DAGGER 2010
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer (Corgi/Transworld)
Blood Harvest by S J Bolton (Bantam Press/Transworld)
Shadowplay by Karen Campbell (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Way Home by George Pelecanos (Orion)

CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2010, SPONSORED BY IAN FLEMING PUBLICATIONS LTD
A Loyal Spy by Simon Conway (Hodder & Stoughton)
Innocent by Scott Turow (Mantle)
The Dying Light by Henry Porter (Orion)
The Gentlemen's Hour by Don Winslow (Heinemann/Random House)

CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2010
Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn (Macmillan New Writing)
Rupture by Simon Lelic (Picador)
The Holy Thief by William Ryan (Mantle)
The Pull of the Moon by Diane Janes (Constable & Robinson)

News: Shortlists Announced for Three Book Categories in the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010

Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3, in partnership with the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA), are pleased to announce three key book shortlists for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards on ITV3, celebrating the very best of British and International crime thriller fiction in the UK and beyond.

The content of ITV3’s brand new Crime Thriller Season of accompanying documentaries is also announced today at the Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.

News: Launching on Monday 5th July, the Best Audiobooks of the Year 2010 features the best in audio publishing from April 2009 – March 2010. Comprised of four categories – fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s – the objective is to showcase the very best audiobooks, and the resulting shortlist features a diverse collection of audio ranging from Shakespeare to Charlaine Harris.

News: The 2010 Crime Thriller event takes place on October 8th at Grosvenor House Hotel. Please contact Merric for ticket information:
merric@agile-ideas.com

The newly commissioned season begins on ITV3 on August 29th and runs for 6 weeks up to the event.
The shortlist selection for the 3 key book awards is now a two-stage process: with a ‘shortlist’ of 8 titles announced on July 23rd at Harrogate Crime Festival and ‘Finalists’ of 4 titles in each category announced by ITV on August 9th.

News: Eight books that are set to become this summer’s must-read holiday favourites have been announced as the latest titles in the Summer Read, the seasonal spin off of the hugely popular TV Book Club. The list has previously spawned big name authors including Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton.

Funded by Specsavers, the eight-part series screens weekly on More4 on Sunday evenings from 27 June, with repeats on Channel 4 the following day. Each week, anchor presenters, Jo Brand and Dave Spikey, will join two other celebrity presenters and a celebrity guest to critique each title, with viewers invited to read along.

News: With almost 5,000 votes cast ‘comic fantasy’ novel Skulduggery Pleasant is the nation’s favourite in nationwide competition to find the favourite book of the Noughties

The ‘Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards’ have today announced the winner of their Irish Book of the Decade competition. With almost 5,000 online votes cast over the last month, ‘comic fantasy’ novel Skulduggery Pleasant by Dubliner Derek Landy, has topped the web-poll to decide the nation’s favourite Irish Book of the Decade.

News: The contest for The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Book of the Decade is hotting up with the announcement of the ten frontrunners in the current voting announced on Friday 14th May. The list is emblematic of the diversity which Irish Book Awards’ has consistently tried to foster with four wonderful literary novels sitting alongside two young adult titles, two popular fiction titles and two bestselling bestselling biographies. Voting closes on May 27th but the voting figures are tight so it’s not too late to hoist your favourite book into contention.