News Briefs William Boyd won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) for best novel for RESTLESS, while Stef Penney took the first novel prize for THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES. Now they compete with winners in poetry, biography, and children’s for the overall Costa. Guardian The National Library of Barcelona, the largest library in Catalonia, and four affiliate libraries, are the latest to join Google’s Library program. Google announcement Maureen Regan has been sued in small claims court by Paula Conway, her co-author on THE BEAUTY BUYBLE, who appears to have decided after the fact that Regan shouldn’t get an agency […]