John Grisham's THEODORE BOONE has been nominated for Blue Peter's "Best Children's Book of the Last 10 Years".

Blue Peter has an average of 370,000 viewers so this is great exposure for Grisham's children's books.

Novelist Andrew Miller has won the 2011 Costa Book of  the Year, his first major literary award, for his sixth novel, Pure.  Set in pre revolutionary Paris in  1785, PURE is the story of Jean-Baptiste Baratte, an ambitious young engineer, who is assigned the  task of emptying the noxious, overflowing Parisian cemetery Les Innocents, and of demolishing  its church.

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Acclaimed biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore held audiences in thrall at all his sessions at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

In the session titled 'The Question of Jerusalem', Montefiore was in conversation with Sari Nusseibeh moderated by Jonatahn Shainin. Montefiore began by saying he wanted to write his book Jerusalem: A Biography because the city is currently...  MORE

Turbulence author Samit Basu held a session on 'Designing Imaginary Worlds' to a packed audience. You can watch the video here.

He also moderated a session titled 'Kahani Kisko Kehte Hain: Script,...  MORE