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Christmas Special 2006
 

Newsletter February 2006:

• In Memoriam: Janet Marjorie Mark
• Ottaker's Children's Book Prize - Julia Golding
• David Irving on trial in Vienna
• Feature - Madame Setterfield aka Diane Setterfield
• Whitbread Book of the Year 2005 - Hilary Spurling
• Epsom Charity Book Fair - 17th and 18th February
• Ibooknet member in print
• Feature for March 2006 

Newsletter January 2006:

• In Memoriam - Henry Kenneth Bulmer
• Dyslexic author wins Nestlé Children's Book Prize
• Richard & Judy Book Club 2006
• Byron manuscript discovered
• Feature - Beverley Nichols, 1898-1983
• Ackamaracka or Get your Alans in a Twist (!!?)
• The Hugo Awards - Science fiction or Fantasy?
• Author appearance - Poet John Hegley in London
• Brontë Literary Lunch
• After Rupert, Pooh...is nothing sacred?
• Orange Prize 2006
• Feature for February 2006

Newsletter December 2005:

• December personal appearances
    Joanne Harris in Huddersfield
    Michael Morpurgo in London
• Historic Cookbook
• Rasputin - The Musical
• Ibooknet Advent Calendar
• Listen to the poets at The Poetry Archive
• Book Aid International
• Shopping a bore - does Sean O'Grady know about ibooknet?
• Feature for January 2006

Newsletter November 2005:

• Recent Book awards
    The 2005 Man Booker Prize
    The 2005 Nobel Literature Prize
    ...do people really read them
    ...and where to buy them
• New home for Rupert
• Feature - 'A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles'
• Books in the news
     The Da Vinci Code/The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
     Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• Feature for December 2005

Newsletter October 2005:

• In Memoriam - Helen Cresswell
• Yahoo! backs digital library
• Recent sales at Bonhams - T. S. Eliot and Ted Hughes
  
• Feature - an interview with writer Geraldine Evans
• Man Booker 2005 shortlist
• Harry Potter sales reach 300 million
• Feature for November 2005

Newsletter September 2005:

• New Academic Term
• Forthcoming sales at Bonhams
       T. S. Eliot letters, etc
       Literary and other portraits
• Feature - Told to the Children, Edwardian Nursery Reading
• Zouch Books goes 'Bricks and Mortar'
• Big Gay Read
• Feature for October 2005

Newsletter August 2005:

• In Memoriam - Claud Simon and Ed McBain
• ibooknet member featured - twice!
• Not all of us are Rowling!
• Feature - George Macdonald
• Charity Book Sale - Turville
• Braille library saved
• W. B. Yeats collection at auction
• Feature for September 2005 

Newsletter July 2005:

• Penguin 70th anniversary - exhibition and new books
• Signed 'Mein Kampf' sold
• Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate
• Summer Double Feature
     The Barsetshire novels of … Angela Thirkell
     The ABA Antiquarian Bookfair at Olympia, June 2005
• Charity Book Sale - Turville
• Red House Childrens Book Award 2005
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist without royalties
• Sale of Shelley's letters
• Feature for August 2005

Newsletter June 2005:

• Press release
• Suspended prison sentence for false description on eBay
• New Children's Laureate: Jaqueline Wilson
• Saudi writers jailed for having views!
• Feature: Jackets Required Reading Too: A Guide to Identifying Fake Dustjackets
• More books for the Visually Impaired
• Book restorers overstretched in China
• The Harry Potter saga continues...
• Feature for July 2005

Newsletter May 2005:

• Oxford library reorganisation
• First Welsh National Poet
• Norman Mailer archive
• Feature: The life and works of Dornford Yates
• Hay Festival 2005
• Orange Prize and Orange New Writers Award shortlists
• Feature for June 2005

Newsletter April 2005:

• In Memoriam: Allice Thomas Ellis (Anna Haycraft)
• Peter Pan sequel commissioned
• Select Committee calls for more funds for libraries
• Feature: Religious books - how to assess them
• Fairytale start for Edinburgh Festival
• Germany and Hitler - today
• Feature for May 2005  

Newsletter March 2005:

• In Memoriam:
  Bernard Stone, Arthur Miller, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Hunter Stockton Thompson
• World Book Day 2005
• Ian Rankin scholarships
• Feature: John Clare - A Northamptonshire Peasant Poet
• Percy Bysshe Shelley letters for auction
• International Booker Prize nominations
• Royal Mail's Charlotte Bronte stamps
• How to get published....
• Feature for April 2005

Newsletter February 2005:

• Michelle Paver's 'Wolf Brother' to be filmed
• John Murray archive for Scotland
• Ted Hughes' birthplace 'For Sale'
• Feature: The Secret of Agatha Christie - Mary Westmacott
• 'Currer Bell' is dead! exhibition
• T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize
• Whitbread Book of the Year 2004
• Macclesfield Psalter saved from export
• Feature for March 2005

Newsletter January 2005:

• In Memoriam - Susan Sontag
• New 'Man Booker International Prize'
• eBay 'Second Chance' scam
• Feature: Fore-edge Painting
• December Auction Round Up
• Wordsworth Trust Arts and Book Festival
• Internet alert leads to conviction of map thief
• Reading Bookfair Diary Dates
• Feature for February 2005

Newsletter December 2004:

• In Memoriam - Arthur Hailey
• Last posting dates for Christmas
• Hay-on-Wye mini-Festival December 2004
• Feature: John Strickland Goodall
• Truman Capote lost manuscript at Sotheby's
• Fleming and 'Q' interest - Modern Firsts at Bloomsbury's
• Preservation for The Hobbit's birthplace
• Feature for January 2005

Newsletter November 2004:

• In Memoriam - John Kinsella, bookseller
• Last posting dates for Christmas
• Shakespeare First Folio sold
• Feature: Signed Cookery Books
• Gabriel García Márquez changes new novel
• The Man Booker winner 2004
• Oscar Wilde collection sold at Sotheby's
• Feature for December 2004

ibooknet Newsletter October 2004:

• In Memoriam - Francoise Sagan and John Seymour
• Last posting dates for Christmas
• Shakespeare First Folio discovered (and online Shakespeare)
• New interview with Mary Cadogan, writer on girls' fiction
• Feature: Nevil Shute Norway - Engineer and Novelist
• The Man Booker shortlist
• 15th Century Aesop at auction
• ibooknet member on DTI shortlist
• British Fantasy Society Ward winners
• Feature for November 2004

ibooknet Newsletter September 2004:

• Anthony Powell's manuscripts in new home
• Author's computer stolen
• Feature: Bookselling role of Charity Shops
• Ladbroke's odds on the Man Booker longlist
• Penguin researches 'what women don't want'?
• Ezra Pound's London home commemorated
• Dylan Thomas literary prize
• Feature for October 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter August 2004:

• In Memoriam - Paul Mackintosh Foot
• Anonymous critics halted by Amazon
• Artistic Licence?
• Feature: The Evolution of a "Bookseller"
• Last minute reminder - Charity Book Sale, Turville
• Recent Auction Results - James Joyce
• Americans reading less
• Summer Marketing
• 'Persuasion' Study Day - Alton Abbey
• Feature for September 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter July 2004:

• In Memoriam - Anthony Buckeridge
• One to watch - 'A Year in the Merde' by Paul West
• Harry Potter - the 6th title
• Feature: Collecting Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Charity Book Sale - Turville
• Recent Auction Results
• Internet banking scam
• Book Prize Winners - 'BBC4 Samuel Johnson', 'Orange' and 'Aventis'
• Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
• Feature for August 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter June 2004:

• In Memoriam - Norris McWhitter and Richard Lancelyn Green
• Let the seller beware - Cataloguing repercussions?
• Feature: Dorothy Dunnett - A Personal Perspective
• Iris Murdock archive secured by Kingston University
• Marguerite Patten interview
• Hay Festival 2004
• Auctions: Conan Doyle archive, Dylan Thomas and James Joyce letters
• Feature for July 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter May 2004 - A Victoria Walker Special:

• Introduction
• The main feature - the Magical Tale of Victoria Walker

• Comments on Victoria Walker's works by:

• Author Garth Nix
• Author Neil Gaiman
• SFX Review Editor Jayne Dearsley

• More to look out for
• Newsletter Feature for May 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter April 2004:

• Jane Austen manuscript on show
• £12,000 Record Beano
• Conan Doyle archive to be auctioned by Christie's
• Accountants are top readers
• Feature - Colour (Color) Prejudice and William Yarrell
• Think you can do better?
• Feature for May 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter March 2004:

• In Memoriam - Frances Partridge
• Archive Leakage
• Roses Expansion
• Feature - Collecting JFK Assassination Books
• Amazon self-reviewing
• Feature for April 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter February 2004:

• In Memoriam - Joan Aiken and John Terraine
• Don Paterson wins TS Eliot Prize
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Bookbinding business of Cedric Chivers saved
• Feature - From Gothic Romance to Gothic Horror
• Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year
• Epsom Charity Book Fair
• Feature for March 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter January 2004:

• Literary New Year Honours
• M6 built on Pulp Fiction
• Seamus Heaney and the Thomas Hardy Society
• Feature - Kinnell Publications
• Whitbread Book of the Year
• Feature for February 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter December 2003:

• In Memoriam - Neil Postman
• The Mail on Sunday book prize refused
• Amazon's new Text search facility
• Feature - Ed McBain
• A Very English Noddy
• Feature for January 2004

Ibooknet Newsletter November 2003:

• In Memoriam - Alastair Borthwick, John Colvin, William Steig
• The Booker Prize 2003 - the winner
• Customer Service Award to ibooknet member
• Feature - Michael Moorcock
• The Internet Dream
• Publicity works both ways
• The Great Future for E-books?
• 13 digit ISBNs on the way
• Conan Doyle manuscripts for auction
• Book in a Month competition
• Writers Awards
• Psalms return to Ethiopia
• Feature for December 2003

Ibooknet Newsletter October 2003:

• In Memoriam - Edward Wadie Said and George Plimpton
• The Booker Prize 2003 - the short list
• Feature - The Value of a Book
• Library with no money for books!
• Bulyer-Lytton prize for worst opening sentence 2003
• James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize
• Louise Gluck will be the next US poet laureate
• National Reading Campaign - Swap a book day
• Feature for November 2003

ibooknet Newsletter September 2003:

• In Memoriam - Nicolas Freeling and Peter Harrington
• The Booker Prize 2003 - the long list
• Feature - Reading for Pleasure
• Hewlett Packard - and the end of printed paper books?
• Ted Hughes Dartmoor Memorial
• Book Liberation - peripatetic books?
• Feature for October 2003

ibooknet Newsletter August 2003:

• In Memoriam - Carol Shields
• Edinburgh International Book Festival - 9th to 25th August 2003
• Feature - An Author of Kintyre
• Charity Book Sale - Turville
• Christies, Playboy and an Ian Fleming manuscript
• Thomas Hardy's notebook
• Feature for September 2003

ibooknet Newsletter July 2003:

• eBay and VAT
• Blaenavon - New Welsh Booktown
• Feature - A Brief Portrait of Jonathan Cape - Part 2
• Book Prize BBC4 - Samuel Johnson Non-fiction
• Book Prize Orange - Best novel by a female writer in English
• Data Protection - sharp practice by some
• Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
• Feature for August 2003

ibooknet Newsletter June 2003

• Sheppard's Directories - UK Book Dealers please note!
• London Book Fairs, June 2003
• Feature - A Brief Portrait of Jonathan Cape - Part 1
• BBC's 'The Big Read'
• Lord of the Rings Musical
• Removing Bookplates (?)
• Feature for July 2003

ibooknet Newsletter May 2003

• New UK Government Guidelines on exporting
• BBC's 'The Big Read'
• Feature - Hugh Montgomery's 'Morchilla and Ptarmagon'
• Beatrix Potter watercolours auctioned at Bonhams
• Sarah Mason - Romantic novelist of the year
• Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books
• Sheppard's Directory of Book Dealers
• Feature for June 2003 

Ibooknet Newsletter April 2003

• In Memoriam - Howard Fast, writer
• A topical Middle East fragment
• The Diaries of a Paris Executioner
• Hay Festival Dates ... and some interesting statistics
• 'We are what we Are' - The State of the Nation winners
• Picassso originals discovered in $80 art book
• Ian McEwan wins US fiction prize

Ibooknet Newsletter March 2003:

• In Memoriam - Hanni Kraus, bookseller
• New book from Hugh Montgomery
• Edward Ardizzone exhibition
• Iain Sinclair - an IBN Newsletter Special
• Brontë Events at Haworth Parsonage
• William Blake windfall for booksellers
• March Feature - Collecting Enid Blyton
• World Book Day - Thursday 6th March
• 'State of the Nation' books
• Further news about the Wainwright Guide

Ibooknet Newsletter February 2003:

• In Memoriam - Peter Tinniswood, Hugh Trevor-Roper, D. J. Enright
• Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men to be rejuvenated
• Marvel's Rawhide Kid 'comes out'
• Whitbread Book of the Year - 'Pepys: The Unequalled Self'
• Wainwright's Guides lose their publisher
• Peter Pan copyright dispute
• Re-launch of 'Topsy and Tim' books
• Article March 2003 

Ibooknet Newsletter January 2003:

• In Memoriam
• Recent and New Year's Literary Honours
• Bad Sex in Fiction Award
• January Feature - Bookselling in the Scottish Highlands
• Bookfair at Dorking, Surrey
• Guardian First Book Award winner
• Whitbread Prize nominations
• Hans Anderson cutting
• Article February 2003

 Ibooknet Newsletter December 2002:

• New book town at Sedburgh?
• Bonhams sells Deans Rag Books
• December Feature - Collecting Warne's 'Observer' books
• Scottish National Library 'Ask-a-Librarian'
• Last posting dates for Christmas
• A Stephen Hurrell artwork
• Article January 2003

Ibooknet Newsletter November 2002: 

• Man Booker prizewinner 2002
• Exhibition of Early Children's Books - Harrogate
• Crime, Detective and Spy specialist bookfair - Harrogate
• November Feature - Collecting Royal Naval Patrol Service books
• The Guardian First Book Awards
• Article December 2002

Ibooknet Newsletter October 2002:

• Happy Birthday, Peter Rabbit!
• Rupert Bear Day, Canterbury
• Children's and Illustrated Bookfair, Harrogate
• October Feature - English as She is Wrote
• New Harry Potter 'in time for Christmas'
• Booker prize shortlist announced
• Article November 2002

Ibooknet Newsletter September 2002:

• Hugh Montgomery - The Voyage of the Arctic Tern
• Michael Palin's Sahara - Audio edition is 'true first'?
• Book fraud on the Internet
• September Feature - Antonia Forest, children's author
• Theft of first editions of Dickens' A Christmas Carol
• Article October 2002

Ibooknet Newsletter August 2002:

• Anna Sewell - First Biography underway
• Fantasy Wins Carnegie Prize
• August Feature - Georgette Heyer; Queen of Mystery and Suspense?
• Car boot sale find a Dead Cert
• Article September 2002

Ibooknet Newsletter July 2002:

• Ladybird Books - illustrators exhibition at Cheltenham
• William McGonagall - to be commemorated
• Charity Book Sale - August 1-4
• Longleat - Caxton at auction
• July Feature - Between the Sheets
• Ian Fleming - anniversary re-issue
• Article July 2002

Ibooknet Newsletter June 2002:

• Booker to open to US authors?
• Tintin in Tibet
• June Feature - Harry Potter
• The Alternative Book Glossary
• Article July 2002

Ibooknet Newsletter May 2002

• Mario Vargas Llosa's 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter'
• Parker Romantic Novel of the Year
• May Feature - The Changing Style of Cookery Books
• Dracula manuscript disappoints
• EEC looks at Sotheby's and Christie's
• Hay Literary Festival (May 31 - June 9, 2002) Highlights
• Article June 2002

Ibooknet Newsletter April 2002

• In Memoriam - Harry Wingfield
• Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day - Radio4 Book of the Month
• Richmal Crompton's William - Martin Jarvis read on Radio4
• April Feature - New Naturalist Library
• ibooknet member on Radio4 - Chris Tomaszewski of Stella Books
• Cheltenham Literary Festival
• Booker Judges for 2002
• Article May 2002

ibooknet Newsletter March 2002

• In Memoriam - Spike Milligan and John Thaw
• British Book Award - Pamela Stephenson's 'Billy'
• World Book Day
• JK Rowling's - Harry Potter Swedish radio broadcasts
• Rupert Fair
• Bernard Cornwell talks about Sharpe
• Article April 2002