This shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009 has just been announced. Last year's winner was local author Kate Summerscale with The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House.
The six titles in the running for this year's prize are as follows: Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed, Bad Science by Ben Goldacre The Lost City of Z by David Grann Leviathan by Philip Hoare The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar, all of which we have in stock.
80 years of Faber
We have recently acquired a brand new set of special editions to commemorate Faber and Faber's 80th Anniversary (est. London 1929). There are 10 debut novels from across the years sporting retro covers, and a range of gift edition poetry books in hardback, all for only £8 each.
The featured authors are as follows: Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, P. D. James, William Golding, Rohinton Mistry, John McGahern, Hanif Kureishi, Paul Auster, Orhan Pamuk, Ted Hughes, W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, John Betjeman, Sylvia Plath, and of course, T. S. Eliot himself.
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