Bring Up the Bodies by Budleigh Salterton-based novelist Hilary Mantel has won the title of 2012 Costa Book of the Year. The sequel to Mantel's award-winning novel Wolf Hall and the second book of a trilogy, Bring Up the Bodies continues the life of Thomas Cromwell and explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history, the destruction of Anne Boleyn.
The announcement was made this evening (Tuesday 29th January) at an awards ceremony held at Quaglino’s in central London.
Mantel’s win secures her a unique place in literary history: Bring Up the...
Tom’s most recent book, Over the Line, is a powerful historical novel about one footballer’s experience in the First World War.
Tom will be playing his popular Football Reading Game – half football reading quiz, half penalty shoot out – which makes reading fun and relevant to all children.
Age: 7 to 11
Did you know that the player who scored England’s first international goal after World War One was a survivor of the trenches?
Did you know that footballers who didn’t join the army were called cowards and mocked and abused?
Devon author Hilary Mantel recently became the first British writer to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction twice, after her novel Bring up the Bodies was named the best book of the year.
To celebrate her success Devon County Council’s Library Service is ordering additional copies of her books, and offering free reservations on all her titles until Christmas.
Devon’s full library catalogue can also be accessed online at www.devon.gov.uk/libraries . The website offers full search facilities to help people find and reserve books, films, music, audio books...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like really to follow the teachings of Jesus without all the institutional stuff and dogma? For many people it is the church that gets in the way. The Exeter branch of the Progressive Christianity Network invite you, religious or not, to an evening with Dave Tomlinson, C of E priest and author of the new book: How to be a Bad Christian . Dave will speak on the theme: 'Religion without the rules'. He founded 'Holy Joe's' a church in a pub, so why has he now decided to join the institution? Come and find out! Free event; donations will be invited.
