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Shortlist for the 2012 Text Prize

We’re delighted to announce the shortlist for this year’s Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.

Zac and Mia by Amanda Betts (Perth) Zac and Mia opens in an oncology ward in Perth, where 17-year-old Zac is recovering from a bone marrow transplant for leukaemia.

Friday links

Shakespeare’s hokey pokey.

961. The highest compliment I can receive is someone reading a book after I recommend it. Bookfessions: confessions of a booklover.

Definitely worth it when you have a spare twenty minutes: Epilogue, a beautiful video on the future of print.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón and The Prisoner of Heaven round-up

21 June was the release date for Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s eagerly anticipated novel The Prisoner of Heaven, follow-up to the international bestsellers The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game.

The BBC has Read more

Friday Links

Drunk texts from famous authors, at the Paris Review.

Gatsby dies. Boo comes to the rescue. Anna throws herself on the tracks. Don’t click this link if you hate spoilers.

An instructive video on how to survive life as a character in a bad work of fiction.

Friday Links

Breathtaking book sculptures by Guy Laramee.

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Hello, Scarlett

what r u doing

Still in jail, I’m afraid

UGH

Texts from Scarlett O'Hara.

I might actually go camping if I could have one of these.

Medieval illuminated manuscript cookies are almost too pretty to eat.

Have you read The Vanishing Act yet?

This beautiful story about a young girl, a snowy island, and the meaning of love, published by us last year, was one of the hottest books at the recent BookExpo America, with booksellers and readers alike eagerly anticipating its US publication in September.

Friday Links

A beautiful outdoor public library/bookshop, created for the Belgian Art Festival.

The alter-egos of 10 famous writers.

A fun and practical DIY project: create a book cover for your wireless router.

Perfume that makes you smell like a new book.

A conversation with Jennifer Miller, author of The Year of the Gadfly

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Text and Cinema Nova present ‘Page to Picture'

A new series at Cinema Nova, ‘Page to Picture’, screens the film adaptations of some of the books featured in the recently released Text Classics list. The series kicks off on Wednesday 6 June with a screening of Read more

Friday links

How to open a new book.

Anyone care to join me in a Margarita Atwood?

Everyday words coined by famous authors. Praise be for Lewis Carroll—a world without the word ‘chortle’ is not a world I want to live in.

Les auteurs scandaleuses.

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