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Costa Book of the Year Award

The winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012 announced last night was Bringing up the bodies by Hilary Mantel. So sadly Maggot moon missed out on winning this prize. Hilary Mantel's book, set in the Tudor period and charting the downfall of Anne Boleyn, had already won the Booker Prize as had her previous novel Wolf Hall, a huge volume, set in the 1520s.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy died on 11th January 1928 at the age of 88. He was an English novelist and poet, his novels tended to focus on the decline of English rural life. Although best known for his novels - some of which have been adapted for film and television- Hardy considered himself primarily as a poet. His works are still studied in schools today. Amongst his most popular books are: The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Ubervilles and Jude the Obscure.

Scotland's favourite book

A survey lists Dan Brown's novel 'The Da Vinci code' as the favourite read of Scottish adults. In second place was 'To kill a mocking bird' by Harper Lee and in third place was 'The lion, the witch and the wardrobe' by C.S. Lewis. Like many surveys this is probably not very representative of the population as a whole, given that only 1000 people were questioned.
The survey also noted that Scots read for an average of 171 minutes a day, the national average is 184 minutes. To read the article in The Scotsman click on this link.

Charles Dickens

Tuesday 7th February marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens birth. The newspapers have been full of articles about Charles Dickens and televission programmes have brought us adaptations of some of his books as well as prorammes about his life. Many people consider him second only to William Shakespeare in terms of his contribution to English literature, a great many more disagree! To mark the anniversary of his birth there is a display in the Library of books by, and about, Charles Dickens.