15/10/08 - Out of the Darkness: Adiga's White Tiger rides to Booker victory against the odds
After an "emotionally draining" and closely fought final judging session, Aravind Adiga, one of the two debut novelists on the Man Booker shortlist, was last night awarded the £50,000 prize for The White Tiger, a bracingly modern novel about the dark side of the new India.
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/14/booker-prize-adiga-white-tiger

10/10/08 - JMG Le Clézio: overdue for recognition - and translation
The latest Nobel laureate is a genuinely brilliant author. But English readers are going to have to wait a while to find out why
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/nobelprize

6/10/08 - JK Rowling earns six times more than nearest rival
The $300m JK Rowling pulled in over the last year will make sickening reading for the majority of authors who are struggling to earn a living.
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/02/harry.potter.richest.authors

29/9/08 - First novels selected as Richard and Judy switch channels
Three debut novelists will be hoping for a major sales boost after they were picked for a new series of Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan's book club in its new home on cable television
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/23/richard.and.judy.book.club.uktv

8/908 - Dahl prize announces Funny shortlists
Roald Dahl never won a children's book prize in his lifetime, but today he has gone one better, as the shortlists for a literary prize bearing his name are announced.
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/08/roald.dahl.funny.prize.shortlist

1/9/08 - 'Book group of lifestyle' wins Orange/Penguin prize
A reading group which themes its food and venues to the books it reads has won the 2008 Penguin/Orange Broadband Readers' Group Prize.
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/28/book.group.of.the.year.lauras.book.group

18/8/08 - Noisy row breaks out in libraries over fines
Library fines could become a thing of the past if a group of librarians get their way.
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/15/libraries.fines

5/8/08 - Russia's literary light who illuminated dark world of Soviet regime
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has died aged 89, was a prolific novelist and memoirist, whose life's work, in the best traditions of Russian literature, transcended the realm of pure letters
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/04/nobelprize.russia2

4/8/08 - Emerging artists on shortlist for most valuable poetry prize
Iambic pentameters, hexameters and trochees have been drawn. Britain's most valuable poetry prize today releases its shortlist, featuring a higher than usual number of new and emerging poets.
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/01/poetry

28/7/08 - "What we're seeing is the creation of a new art form"
Read the pros and cons of e-books
Full story:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/27/ebooks3

18/7/08 - Theakston's Crime award goes to mainstream first novel
The judges for the fourth Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award have broken new ground, awarding the 2008 prize to a first novel which has already found acclaim as a work of mainstream literary fiction, Stef Penny's The Tenderness of Wolves.
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2291770,00.html

11/7/08 - Rushdie's Midnight's Children crowned best of the Bookers
IFor the second time, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie has been judged the best ever winner of the Booker prize.
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2290062,00.html

8/7/08 - Field narrows in race for richest story award
Adam Thorpe and Jane Gardam head the shortlist for the National Short Story prize, the world's richest single story award, announced earlier today.
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2289366,00.html

30/6/08 - Lalwani takes award, but gives away prize
It made the longlist of the Booker prize, and the shortlist of the Costa first novel award
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2287950,00.html

16/6/08 - Debut novelist beats Roth, Pynchon and Atwood to Impac prize
Lebanese author Rawi Hage, writing in his third language, wins the €100,000 Impac Dublin literary award for his novel De Niro's Game
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2285217,00.html

9/6/08 - After years of waiting, Tremain scoops Orange prize
Celebrated author wins £30,000 award for tale of immigrant's life in Britain
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/orange2008/story/0,,2283769,00.html

4/6/08 - Age banding 'ill-conceived and damaging', say children's authors
The practice of indicating suitable ages for goods bought by or for children is rarely the subject of controversy
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2283530,00.html

2/6/08 - Derek Landy wins Red House prize
The Dublin writer Derek Landy owes much to his zombie detective, Skulduggery Pleasant. First Landy's creation helped him to leave behind the cauliflower fields of his family farm, and now it has won him the coveted Red House children's book prize
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2283179,00.html

19/5/08 - Reviled poet's work fetches high price at auction
A collection by a scorned 19th-century poet, William McGonagall, commands a higher price than a Dickens first edition
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2280580,00.html

6/5/08 - Genetically-modified assassin takes SF prize
After a broadly-drawn shortlist which featured mainstream literary fiction and a novel for young adults, the Arthur C Clarke award returned to its roots with last night's award of the 2008 prize to Richard Morgan.
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2277176,00.html

29/4/08 - Contenders line up for UK's oldest book prize
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid's fictional study of a neo-imperial identity crisis and John Burnside's chilling tale The Devil's Footprints are both in the running for this year's instalment of the James Tait Black Memorial prizes, it was announced today
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2276713,00.html

28/4/08 - Orwell prize goes to lament for Palestinian landscape
Britain's most prestigious award for political writing, the Orwell book prize, has been won by Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks, a victory further distinguished by such strong competition that the judges felt the need to extend this year's shortlist.
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2276279,00.html

14/4/08 - Unpublished poet will help mark end of slave trade
An unpublished poet has joined 11 of Britain's most celebrated writers to conclude the Arts Council's year-long sequence of poems commissioned to mark the bicentenary of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2273011,00.html

2/4/08 - Impac shortlist boasts global scope
The shortlist for the world's largest literary award, the International Impac Dublin prize, was announced today with a selection of eight novels that further reinforce the prize's already strong international credentials
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2270252,00.html

25/3/08 - Nicola Barker makes Ondaatje shortlist
Nicola Barker, Orlando Figes and Graham Robb are among the authors shortlisted for the 2008 Ondaatje prize. The £10,000 award is given annually by the Royal Society of Literature to a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry which is "of the highest literary merit", and judged to convey a sense of place
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2267984,00.html

7/3/08 - Boy A wins talking point award
Jonathan Trigell's controversial novel Boy A has been named as the first winner of the Book to Talk About award, announced to coincide with World Book Day. The award, decided by members of the public, brings with it a prize of £5,000 for a work which inspires debate and discussion among readers.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2262380,00.html

22/2/08 - Shortlist announced for the year's oddest book titles.
Cheese Problems Solved, Are Women Human? and People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond grace the Bookseller's shortlist.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2259259,00.html

22/2/08 - 'Best of the Booker' pits Rushdie against 40 pretenders
Fifteen years after Midnight's Children was named the Booker of Bookers, a new award celebrating the prize's 40th anniversary could see Salman Rushdie lose his crown
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2258500,00.html

20/2/08 - Impress your "migrant" users with James Hopkin's top 10 Polish books
James Hopkin won an Arts Council short story competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. His debut novel, Winter Under Water, set in several cities across Europe, was published in paperback by Picador last week.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,,2257181,00.html

11/2/08 - James Patterson stamps out library competition
James Patterson has knocked Jacqueline Wilson off her perch as the author most-borrowed from British libraries, with more than 1.5m copies of his thrillers issued between July 2006 and June 2007.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2254110,00.html

04/2/08 - Lessing receives Nobel in London
Doris Lessing last night formally received her Nobel prize for literature, saying: "Thank you does not seem enough."
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2249787,00.html

28/1/08- Nestlé book prize put to bed for last time
The Nestlé book prize, which has been honouring children's authors for the past 23 years, is being discontinued by its administrator Booktrust and sponsor Nestlé.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2245514,00.html

23/1/08 - Perfect Day for AL Kennedy as she takes Costa book prize
AL Kennedy last night received the literary recognition many people believe is long overdue when her post-second world war novel Day walked away with one of the UK's most important literary prizes.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/costa2007/story/0,,2245282,00.html

21/1/08 - Sean O'Brien wins unprecedented poetry double
The last 12 months in poetry have definitely belonged to Sean O'Brien. After winning the Forward prize for best collection an unprecedented third time in October, the poet was tonight named the winner of the 2007 TS Eliot prize
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/tseliotprize/story/0,,2240744,00.html

14/1/08 - Ted Hughes tops critics' league table
For those in a hurry to find last year's "must reads", Booktrust has obligingly boiled down the reviewers' books of the year into one handy league table.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2237188,00.html

9/1/08 - T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY
The T S Eliot Prize 2007 Shortlist has been announced. This year's shortlisted poets are...
Full story: http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/PBS/pbs_ts_eliot.asp

7/1/08 - Former postwoman takes Costa first novel award
After being rejected by 14 separate literary agents, Catherine O'Flynn had every right to feel she might be one of the many who see their labours go unloved.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/costa2007/story/0,,2234298,00.html

7/1/08 - Obituary of George MacDonald Fraser
Journalist, historian and screenwriter, he created the dashing Victorian antihero Harry Flashman
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2234852,00.html

29/12/07 - Honours for Jacqueline Wilson, Hanif Kureishi and Eric Hill
A former children's laureate is joined on the New Year honours list by a novelist and the creator of the popular children's character Spot
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2232885,00.html

29/12/07 - Richard and Judy unveil their 2008 Book Club
Happy new years - financially speaking, at least - are in the offing for the 10 authors who found out today that they have been chosen by daytime TV supremos Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for the couple's 2008 Book Club.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2232497,00.html

17/12/07 - And they all read happily ever after ...
Children's books of the year 2007
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/booksoftheyear2007/story/0,,2228840,00.html

12/12/07 - Children's book ads censored over toilet humour
Adverts for a children's book were amended to remove toilet humour before they could run on the London Underground, a publisher said today.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2225750,00.html

10/12/07 - Ethiopian-American wins Guardian First Book Award
A novel that tackles fraught questions of identity, dislocation and loneliness through the life of an Ethiopian émigré in the US has taken this year's Guardian First Book Award.
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/fba2007/story/0,,2222523,00.html

7/12/07 - School poetry teaching too limited, Ofsted says
Children in England are studying too many lightweight poems in primary school while dull and repetitive teaching at GCSE is harming pupils' enjoyment of the genre, the education inspectorate, Ofsted, says today.
Full story:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2223743,00.html

3/12/07- Survivor's tale
Sarah Hall, who won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize this week, on how the controversial, post-apocalyptic, 1970s children's book Z for Zachariah inspired her love of reading and her own futuristic novel
Full story: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/childrenandteens/0,,2219903,00.html