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  1. Jonathan Littell won the Bad Sex award. To read more on his brilliant The Kindly Ones (bad sex notwithstanding): http://tinyurl.com/yh3r6t9
  2. Reading Andrea Levy's The Long Song - it's got a wonderfully distinct narrative voice that really propels it forward: http://tiny.cc/YZo8K
  3. Well done Duncan Hamilton for a second William Hill prize - info about his Duncan Larwood biog and other cricket books: http://tiny.cc/kQcaU
  4. ...and a long review of Siobhan Dowd's Solace of the Road: http://tiny.cc/QJo8F
  5. Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Award, a feature by Anna Perera (http://tiny.cc/WR6lR) on censorship of children's books...
  6. Our at-a-glance career retrospective of Colm Toibin (up for the Costa Novel award): http://tiny.cc/od05Z
  7. Some Costa shortlist related articles now. First, Patrick Gale's review of Brooklyn by Colm Toibin: http://tiny.cc/Nay2O
  8. Creating a features longlist for our April issue... you can't beat 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' as a title - http://tiny.cc/CJGXr
  9. Read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for light(ish) fun (http://tiny.cc/GReDH). Stevenson was a wonderful writer. Oh, and saw the Coen Brothers' film.
  10. Looking for a really good literary biographical dictionary, any recommendations?
  11. Had lunch with Andrea Levy and found a shared interested in Southside Johnny, who I saw play last night. Her new book is our January cover.
  12. We haven't I discovered Shirley Jackson before now? We Have Always Lived in the Castle (http://tiny.cc/7l9Cl) is spooky and superb.
  13. RT @jonmhowells: Here's our response to the Guardian's somewhat hysterical & v. unbalanced article on Waterstone's http://bit.ly/3weDGM
  14. Out next week, Nabokov's unpublished The Original of Laura. Read Justin Cartwright's preview here: http://tiny.cc/QEeOz
  15. Met the lovely Jonathan Coe tonight. Apparently his book next year will fuse his traditional comedy with the family drama of his last one.
  16. Met the lovely Jonathan Coe tonight. Apparently his new book next year will fuse his tradtional comedy with the family drama of his last.
  17. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, read Anna Funder on what happened to the Stasi - and win a trip to Berlin: http://tiny.cc/I0IKH
  18. Just out, the new Paul Auster 'Invisible', who is one of my favourite authors in the world. Read our bookseller review: http://tiny.cc/Dko7j
  19. Going for lunch today with the thoroughly lovely Alexander McCall Smith.
  20. A bit of nice news - we're up for two APA (Contract Publishing) awards, one for best magazine, one for best website for Wbqonline.