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From 4pm onwards TODAY, Twitterature authors will be tweeting Twilight on Twitter @AcimanandRensin. Expect Vampires. Expect Laughs.
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Alex Aciman & Emmett Rensin. We're the authors of Twitterature, published by Penguin Books
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Costa Book Awards shortlist - 3 titles from Penguin Brooklyn by Colm Toibin and Family Album by Penelope Lively have been shortlisted for this year's Costa Novel Award. Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera has also been shortlisted for the Costa Children's Award. http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/
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Love Reading? Why not be a judge for the Orange Prize for Fiction?
Spinebreakers are recruiting a unique youth panel of judges for the fifteenth anniversary of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. The six panel members will read all previous fourteen winning Orange
Prize titles to ultimately choose the "Orange Prize Win...ner of Winners."
Entrants must be aged 16-20 and able to travel to London for interview
and then for the shortlisting meetings if selected for the panel.
http://www.spinebreakers.co.uk/Creative/
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Apply here to be a member of a unique youth panel of book judges for the 15th Anniversary of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010.
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Calling all Nabokov fans - check out the index cards on which Nabokov wrote fragments of The Original of Laura - the final masterwork which he was unable to finish before his death.
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Vladimir Nabokov's last novel, The Original of Laura, is one which he requested to be destroyed. His son, Dmitiri, however, did not oblige. The Original of Laura is about a wonderfully large man called ...
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Are you fan of William Trevor or do you know someone who is? Why not get them the gorgeous William Trevor collected stories giftset for Christmas?
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Browse our beautiful selection of gifts at Penguin's official online book shop. Read more with Penguin Books.
Penguin Books It's mid-month so that must mean more scrummy Penguin Tasters for you. This month sample the delights of Marian Keyes' The Brightest Star in the Sky, Adrian Mole Prostrate Years, David Vann's Legend of a Suicide, and well, see for yourself at http://www.penguin.co.uk/tasters
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Penguin Tasters: Download them, print them or put them on your pdf reader at Penguin's official online book shop. Read more with Penguin UK - online book sellers
Penguin Books If you're on Twitter, we're playing #unexpectedbooksequels with our pals at Penguin Books Australia - a guaranteed good time! Head over to http://www.twitter.com/penguinbooks
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Ever noticed the amount of food thrown away by companies? Take part in Tristram Stuart's Food Waste Watchdog and post your photos up on Flickr. The best photos will be featured on Tristram's website Liber-ate and guardian.co.uk.
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
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WIN 100 BOOKS WITH DAVE AND PENGUIN!
Some of Dave's most popular comedians also write for Penguin
Books, so what better reason than that to giveaway 100 books!
http://uktv.co.uk/dave/competition/aid/6
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It's not all about TV at Dave. We like books as well. Which is why we've giving you the chance to win 100 of the papery word things!
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Marian Keyes talks about how hard it is to choose her favourite book, like asking a mother to choose her favourite child, but thinks that she might possibly have it with, The Brightest Star in the Sky! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zid7M2lBe
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Marian Keyes talks about how hard it is to choose her favourite, but thinks that she might possible have it with The Brightest Star in the Sky
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Choose
the perfect present this Christmas. Spoil, delight and inspire all your
loved ones this Christmas with our beautiful gift collections,
bestsellers of 2009 and quirky stocking fillers. http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/
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Sumptuous, sexy, stylish books and gift sets. View all our exceptionally beautiful Penguin book collections
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Top
of your to-do list this weekend must be to catch Nick Hornby's film of
Lynn Barber's memoir AN EDUCATION, which has opened today to RAVE
reviews! See the trailer here http://tinyurl.com/y9y4rag
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Buy An Education by Lynn Barber and other Biography & memoirs books online from Penguin Books's online bookstore. Read more with Penguin Books.
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Spending a Friday afternoon looking through some great sci-fi jacket artwork over the years. Enjoy!
"The Art of Penguin Books Science Fiction" http://bit.ly/12NMU2
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The history and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books from 1935 onwards.
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Exciting news - John le Carre moves to Penguin
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