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Best of the Shed
We feature some of the very best writing from inside the Shed, here on our front page. These are pieces that have earned wide approval and have been workshopped within 'The Lab', part of the Book Shed Forum.
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Recently in The Bar ...
Egmont Press will publish 9/11 Boy, a novel about friendship, family, and racial tension, from debut children's author Catherine Bruton. 
The 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winning author Evie Wyld has today been announced as Booktrust's third online writer in residence. The 29-year-old won the prestigious prize with her debut novel set in Australia, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, which has since been shortlisted for the 2010 Authors Club First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Readers will be invited to download free or reduced price e-books during 'Read an E-Book Week' between 7 and 13 March.
Penguin plans to kick start e-book sales with enhanced digital editions of bestsellers. Plans for interactive e-books go beyond embedded video and audio.
One hundred authors have contributed to a book entitled 100 Stories for Haiti to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti. The book is a collection of short stories from writers worldwide, published tomorrow (4 March 2010).
Publication has been halted for a book about the atomic bombing of Japan, after the author was said to have relied on fraudulent sources.
Harry Bingham's debut novel, The Money Makers, hit the Sunday Times bestseller list. Since then he's written four more for Harper Collins and is Editorial Director of the Writers' Workshop. As well as being Britain’s largest writers’ services company, the Writers' Workshop organises the York Festival of Writing.From The Bookseller
- Binchy and Trollope pick up lifetime achievement awards
- WBD book retains top spot in strongest week this year
- Bestseller Lists: Week Ending 13th March 2010
- Gift purchasing climbs as self-purchase drops, BML shows
- First rise in library borrowing for 20 years
- Hodge asks: should library authorities merge?
- Wiley consulting over 42 job cuts, including 30 in UK
From NYT Book News
- Emory University Saves Rushdie’s Digital Data
- Books of The Times: Lisa Grunwald’s ‘Irresistible Henry House’: A Charmer’s Tale
- Books on Science: “Insectopedia,” by Hugh Raffles
- Book Review | 'Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death,' by Jim Frederick
- Sales of ‘The Coming Insurrection’ Helped by Glenn Beck
A random selection from BookShed writers.
