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AbeBooks wants to know which of the past 41 Man Booker prize winners was the most deserving winner. Tell us which Booker is your favorite and why. We will post the results on our website and on the blog.

LA Times Festival of the Book occurred this past weekend in LA. The AbeBooks staffers who were at the fair will probably talk about it in tomorrows blog posts but today, to tide you over, here are the winners of the LA Times Book Awards: Fiction: Andrew O’Hagan – Be Near Me Current Interest: Elizabeth [...]

The Hitler Diaries, one of the greatest literary hoaxes of all time, was printed 25 years ago. There are things you wish you’d never done. One of mine was to have held up the front page to the newsroom, saying: “Look at that. You’ll never see another front page like that as long as you [...]

This past weekend the presentation of the Nebula Awards took place in Austin Texas. Here’s a list of the major prize winners. Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Chabon, Michael Novella: Fountain of Age – Kress, Nancy (Asimov’s, Jul07) Novelette: The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate – Chiang, Ted (F&SF, Sep07) Short Story: Always – [...]

The finalists for the 2008 Locus Awards have been announced. Awards to be given out on the 21st of June SF NOVEL The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman (Ace) Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr) Halting State, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK) Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK) The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins) FANTASY [...]

Doris Lessing gets more ink by being frim of mind and sharp of tongue. It takes Doris Lessing just four minutes to come out with something, if not actually controversial, then at least unexpected. It’s about Hitler. She says she understands him. This from a former member of the Communist Party. (She left in 1956, [...]

One of the last great mystery pulp writers passed on recently. The obituary of Edward D. Hoch was featured in The Guardian this morning. In every monthly issue since May 1973, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine has featured a short story by Edward D Hoch. Hoch, who has died after a heart attack aged 77, was [...]

This weekend AbeBooks.com will be at the LA Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus. We’re going to have two booths – one for Abe and one for Story Laboratory, our book-making workshop for kids. Myself, Jordan and Shauna will be on the main AbeBooks.com booth (No 654 in zone F), which is actually [...]

Down in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald profiles Anne Enright – last year’s Booker Prize winner with her gloomy Irish novel, The Gathering.