Category Archives: Not The Booker Prize

Not the Booker Prize: Sherry Cracker Gets Normal

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

I’m delighted to be able to include in our Not the Booker series an interview with DJ Connell, author of Sherry Cracker Gets Normal, published by the Harper Collins imprint Blue Door (and also Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar). This was … Continue reading →

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Not the Booker: King Crow by Michael Stewart

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

(We have a Facebook page now – do come and “like” us and say hi) King Crow is the really rather superb book by Michael Stewart. You can buy it here. It is published by the also really rather superb … Continue reading →

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When it is Right to Bow Out

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

(This is, word for word, the announcement of our withdrawal of The Dead Beat from Not the Booker Prize. Thank you to everyone who supported Cody. No doubt many of you will have thoughts, but for Cody’s sake, and in … Continue reading →

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Manners Maketh Misunderstanding

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

(We have a Facebook page now – do come and “like” us and say hi) (posted in response to a point raised on The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize review of The Dead Beat. Click here to download The Dead … Continue reading →

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The Truth About Confessional Art

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

(We have a Facebook page now – do come and “like” us and say hi) (adapted from a post that originally appeared 18 months ago at Year Zero Writers, and posted now in response to a point raised on The … Continue reading →

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Not the Booker Prize: Spurious by Lars Iyer

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

(We have a Facebook page now – do come and “like” us and say hi) Spurious is available as a paperback here and for Kindle here Today it’s the turn of Lars Iyer’s Spurious to receive its Not the Booker … Continue reading →

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Not the Booker Prize at Blackwell’s

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

(We have a Facebook page now – do come and “like” us and say hi)     Yay! now anyone in the vicinity of Oxford can head to the fabulous Blackwell’s to pick up the paperback of The Dead Beat … Continue reading →

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Not the Booker Prize: Chris Morton and English Slacker

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

(We have a Facebook page now – do come and “like” us and say hi) To celebrate Not the Booker Prize, we’re running a series of articles about the issues the prize has thrown up (here’s the first). We’ve also … Continue reading →

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Editors: Serpents in the Garden of Perceptual Eden

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

(We have a Facebook page now – do come and “like” us and say hi) This Year’s Not the Booker Prize has raised all kinds of interesting questions – about small presses, contemporary literature, social media, the nature of prizes, … Continue reading →

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