Spencer Quinn’s DOG ON IT (Simon & Schuster) is the twelfth selection in the Barnes & Noble Recommends program, on sale tomorrow. Calling it “a dog lover’s mystery filled with laughs,” chief merchandising officer Jaime Carey describes it as “the first volume in Spencer Quinn’s new mystery series featuring the charming detective duo of private investigator Bernie Little and his dog Chet.”
Awards
March Indie Next List
Fool: A Novel by Christopher MooreAmong the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline WinspearSonata for Miriam: A Novel by Linda OlssonThe Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David GrannStarvation Lake: A Mystery by Bryan GruleyThe Writing on My Forehead: A Novel by Nafisa HajiSleepwalking in Daylight by Elizabeth FlockAll That I Have: A Novel by Castle Freeman, Jr.The Manual of Detection: A Novel by Jedediah BerryThe Missing: A Novel by Tim GautreauxA Grave in Gaza: An Omar Yussef Mystery by Matt Beynon ReesPatient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel by Jonathan MaberryMy Abandonment: […]
BN Discover Finalists
Barnes & Noble announced the nominees for its annual Discover Great New Writers Awards: Fiction Zachary Lazar, Sway (Little, Brown) Gin Phillips, The Well and the Mine (Hawthorne Books) Benjamin Taylor, The Book of Getting Even (Steerforth Press) Nonfiction David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Addiction (Houghton Mifflin) Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Twelve) Nia Wyn, Blue Sky July: A Mother’s Story of Hope and Healing (Dutton) The winners will be announced on March 4, at a private awards ceremony.
Barry Wins Overall Costa
Irish writer Sebastian Barry missed out on the Booker, but now he has won the overall Costa Award for THE SECRET SCRIPTURE. Chairman of the judges’ panel Matthew Parris cited “a narrator had been created of such a transcendence that that redeemed all the other structural weaknesses in the book.”Wire
Children's Awards to Gaiman and Krommes
Given this morning at the ALA’s mid-winter meeting, the Newbery Medal for 2009 went to Neil Gaiman’s THE GRAVEYARD BOOK. The Caldecott Medal went to THE HOUSE IN THE NIGHT, illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson. For honor books and the many other awards presented this morning, visit the ALA’s site or Twitter feed.
NBCC Award Nominees
Book critics were ready to declare Roberto Bolano’s 2666 the novel of the year before it was even published so the National Book Critics Circle might as well have given it the award rather than just a nomination on Saturday, along with Dexter Filkins’ everybody’s Top Ten list THE FOREVER war. But the other categories and their nominees range a little further (and M. Glenn Talyor’s nominated novel The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart comes from the West Virginia University Press): FictionRoberto Bolano, 2666Marilynne Robinson, HomeAleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus ProjectM. Glenn Talyor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth TaggartElizabeth Strout, Olive Kittredge Nonfiction […]