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Gardner and Pinfold win Carnegie and Greenaway Medals

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Canongate buys Bergner on female desire

Canongate has acquired What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner. The publisher bought UK and Commonwealth...

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Carnegie winner Gardner: children being 'examined into failure'

Dyslexic author Sally Gardner, the winner of this year's CILIP Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon (published by Hot Key Books), has used her...

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Major library cuts for Lincolnshire

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