Shortlist 2007 Announcement

Press Release
Leicester Book of the Year Award Announces Shortlist
The shortlist for the Leicester Book of the Year Award for Teenage Fiction 2007 is announced this week.
The award is organised by Leicester Libraries and is now in its 6th year. Previous winners include Bali Rai (2002, 2004), Alan Gibbons (2003), Benjamin Zephaniah (2005) and Sherry Ashworth [...]

Countdown to Shortlist Underway

The shortlist for the 2007 Leicester Bok of the Year Award for Teenage Fiction will be chosen in a little under a week. The shortlist meeting takes place at New Walk Musuem on 21st February at 4pm. The meeting is only open to mebers of school reading groups registered to take part in the award. [...]

REVIEW – Spiked by Sandra Glover

A book review by Rubina Fada
Spiked! Is an engrossing mystery, set in the U.K… Smart, sensible and pretty Debra Carded and her friends have just received their final results and plan a year end pub party, something they haven’t told their parents about. But, unbeknownst to them, a secret enemy has his own unpleasant plans [...]

Darren Shan Event

Book of the Year longlisted author Darren Shan will be appearing at the Guildhall Theatre in Derby soon.
Sun 18 Feb 2007
5pm
Guildhall Theatre, Derby
£9, concessions £7, under-16s £5
Darren is famous for writing the highly-acclaimed novel Cirque Du Freak, which was read by children and adults across America, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and many other countries. [...]

REVIEW – Damage by Sue Mayfield

A book review by Rubina Fada
The novel tells the story of four friends; Becci, Matt, Sophie and Nathan, who are involved in a fatal car crash on the way home from a party. It is written from the point of view of eleven (yes eleven) narrators, and charts how these characters deal with the conflicting [...]