Borders Awards Borders named their annual Original Voices Winners: Fiction: Nicole Krauss, THE HISTORY OF LOVE Nonfiction: Emma Larkin, FINDING GEORGE ORWELL IN BURMA Picture book: Rob Scotton, RUSSELL THE SHEEP YA: Gabrielle Zevin, ELSEWHERE Press release The Imploding UK Book Business: Two Views In the Independent, Boyd Tonkin declares: “British chain bookselling – with Waterstone’s as its battered figurehead – now looks suspiciously like a murder victim who has decided to speed up his demise by committing suicide.” Plus: “n this climate, for publishers and writers to worry unduly about whether the Competition Commission allows wounded Waterstone’s to buy […]
