Scottish comedian wins Costa book award
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Scottish writer and standup comedian A.L. Kennedy has won Britain's Costa Book of the Year Award for her novel about a World War II veteran whose work as an extra on a war film forces him to confront his past.
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Stephen Merchant beats comedy partner Ricky Gervais to best actor at the British Comedy Awards.
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Life & style: New recipe tome from Nigella Lawson is outselling Jamie at Home by more than 100,000 copies
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Actor John Hurt laughs as he holds his Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE, presented to him by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, in London, Thursday Dec.
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award is won by journalist Iain Hollingshead for his first novel, Twenty Something.
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A British comic unknown three weeks ago could be set for stardom after he won Britain&#39;s most prestigious comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, organisers said on Sunday.
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The winner of this yearâs Man Booker Prize spoke of his joy at scooping the prestigious Â£50,000 (â¬72,100) award. Alan Hollinghurstâs novel The Line of Beauty, about Thatcherism and gay sex, beat David
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Yiyun Li wins the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award for her book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
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Comedian Ricky Gervais putts up Â£650 towards a reward for the return of his neighbour's Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
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Comedian Eric Sykes, actress Anna Massey and rock star Roger Daltrey are honoured.
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Seems like a lot of people want Neil Gaiman, the fantasy novelist, short-story and comics writer, to give away his books. On Saturday Mr. Gaiman invited readers of his blog to select the book they would give to a friend who has never read his work before. More than 16,500 votes have been cast for one of eight titles highlighted at neilgaiman.com. Mr. Gaiman will select a winner next week, and a free electronic copy of that book will be posted on the Web site of HarperCollins Publishers, harpercollins.com, later this month. The book will be one of six, including a novel by Paulo Coelho and a cookbook by the Food Network star Robert Irvine, that HarperCollins is making available free online for a month each. Readers will not be able to download or print the books. In Mr. Coelhoâs case the publisher will upload a different title each month until the end of the year.
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Pulitzer-winning US author Cormac McCarthy wins the UK's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Prize.
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Comedian Patrick Kielty apologises over his jokes about missing child, Madeleine McCann.
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Five winners of Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, have been chosen from 553 entries to compete for the 2007 Costa Book of the Year Award.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst poses with his book, The Line of Beauty, winner of The 2004 Booker Prizer Literary Prize. Photo: AFP. British author Alan Hollinghurst today won the Booker Prize, one of the world&#39;s
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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is named the winner of the Orange Prize for fiction.
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Quirky sketch show "Little Britain" beat off BBC rival "The Office" to take top honors at the British Comedy Awards 2004 on Wednesday.