| In The Loop, the British political satire film, has been nominated for an Academy Award.
The film has been nominated in the Writing (Adapted Screenplay)Category alongside District 9, An Education, Up In The Air, and Precious.
The Oscar nod is the first ever nomination for the In The Loop team of Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Director Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche.
In The Loop is a fictional account of potential infighting within governments on both sides of the Atlantic in the days leading up to the Iraq War.
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| SISTERS OF SINAI by Janet Soskice has won an Award of Merit in the History/Biography category of the Christianity Today Book Awards for 2010.
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| Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is in the top 10 of the bestselling books of the decade.
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| DANCING TO THE PRECIPICE by Caroline Moorehead has been shortlisted for the Costa Biography Prize.
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Pen Farthing a former Marine Sergeant, and author of ONE DOG AT A TIME has won the International Fund for Animal Welfare ‘Pets and People’ award.
Pen rescued several street dogs from a war zone in Afghanistan after being moved by their plight while serving there. He has since set up the charity Nowzad Dogs to rescue other strays in the country and improve educational opportunities for potential vets in Afghanistan.
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| The Places In Between by Rory Stewart has won the 2009 Camino del Cid Prize for Travel Literature in Spain.
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| LEVIATHAN by Phillip Hoare has won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
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| HELIOPOLIS by James Scudamore has been longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.
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| Philip Ó Ceallaigh's second collection of short stories, The Pleasant Light of Day, has been shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor Award.
The 2009 winner is due to be announced on 20 September 2009.
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| Ronan O’Brien has won Best Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards with his book Confessions of a Fallen Angel.
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A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES by Mohammed Hanif has won the inaugural Shakti Bhatt First Book Award.
Mohammed Hanif has won the overall 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. The two overall winners of the Best Book and Best First Book were announced in New Zealand at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival on Saturday, 16 May 2009.
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| Louise Rennison has just been crowned the first ever Queen of Teen and is now officially the ruling monarch of teenage fiction!
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| Gillian Slovo has been nominated for an Amnesty Press award for an article she wrote for the New Statesman on asylum seeking children in detention.
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