Prizes galore at the National Book Critics Circle Awards!
On March 11 the winners of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award were announced in New York City.
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall took the fiction award, to add to her throughly deserved Booker prize win and Costa nomination, and another Fourth Estate author, Joyce Carol Oates, received the lifetime achievement award at the ceremony.
To celebrate Hilary’s amazing achievement we have reduced the Wolf Hall app by 50 % for this week only. Don’t miss out on your chance to download the full text of Wolf Hall, including the whole book, family trees and a video interview with Professor David Starkey, for the special price of £3.49.
However, if you prefer traditional paper books and, like Mariella Frostrup fear the iPhone version may give you eyeache (Open Book, Radio 4, 15:30 mins in), you can also get your physical copy from Amazon.
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories. She is one of America’s most highly respected literary figures, and the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.
Joyce was one of the 9 contributors to Fourth Estate’s anonymous anniversary publication, the ANONthology.
Her latest book, Little Bird of Heaven, is a vividly rendered exploration of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America. When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects: her estranged husband Delray and her longtime lover Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers’s son Aaron and Eddy’s daughter Krista become obsessed with one another, each believing the other’s father is guilty.
Joyce has already been nominated for the Man Booker International Prize Lifetime achievement award and for the Pulitzer Prize on several occasions.
The Harper Press author Richard Holmes received the award for Non Fiction for The Age of Wonder. Already shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and awarded the Royal Society Prize for Science Books in september last year, this is just a further accolade for Richard’s critically acclaimed biography of science in the Romantic era.
The Age of Wonder was also one of Publisher’s Weekly top ten Books of 2009.
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