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The shortlists for James Tait Black Memorial prizes for non-fiction and biography have been announced yesterday. The James Tait Black Memorial prizes were founded in 1919 by the widow of Edinburgh publisher James Tait Black. The book award is also quite unique as it is the only one that is judged by scholars and graduate [...]

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HB Squad Alert . gossip + snippets One of my favourite podcasts is The Bat Segundo Show. Basically Mr Segundo interviews writers – he doesn’t take himself or the writers too seriously which makes it really fun to read. The most recent interview is with Mark Sarvas (who blogs at The Elegant Variation) – and [...]

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HAPPENIN’ . programs + events Heartlands Bookclub will be discussing Death in Midsummer & Other Stories by Yukio Mishima. Date: 4.00pm, Friday, 25 April 2008 Place: Activity Room, Bukit Batok Community Library Facilitator: Mr Paul Fitzpatrick Call no.: MIS About the book ‘Death in Midsummer’ is a collection of nine short stories and one play. [...]

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HB Squad Alert . gossip + snippets The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. The winners were: • Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) Available at NLB. Call No.: DIA • Drama: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Theatre Communications Group) • History: What Hath God Wrought: The [...]

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(Bernard shares with us his lament for the passing of the science fiction luminary. -Ed) An Odyssey through Space with Arthur C. Clarke by Bernard Leong. The last of the three giants in science fiction genre, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE (along with Issac Asimov and Robert Heinlein) passed away in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 19 March [...]

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