The links below are to articles reporting on the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, including the finalists and winner.
For more visit:
– https://lithub.com/meet-the-six-finalists-for-the-2018-baillie-gifford-prize/
– https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/11/us-author-serhii-plokhy-wins-2018-baillie-gifford-prize-nonfiction/
The link below is to an article reporting on the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri, for her novel The City of Good Death. This is a US prize.
For more visit:
https://lithub.com/announcing-the-winner-of-restless-books-new-immigrant-writing-prize-2/
The link below is to a list of 10 rules for novelists – which should provoke ‘some thoughts.’
For more visit:
https://lithub.com/jonathan-franzens-10-rules-for-novelists/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at New Zealand’s crime fiction writer Ngaio Marsh.
For more visit:
https://crimereads.com/ngaio-marsh-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/
The links below are to articles reflecting on the Oxford Dictionaries 2018 Word of the Year – toxic.
For more visit:
– https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2018
– https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668041894/toxic-is-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-2018
– https://bookriot.com/2018/11/15/toxic-2018-oxford-english-dictionary-word/
The link below is to an article that provides a defence of puns.
For more visit:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/11/15/in-defense-of-puns/
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