OCTOBER 2015

W ELCOME This month: In this edition of Book News we take a look at the shortlist for this  Man Booker Prize year’s Man Booker Prize, bid a sad  eBooks farewell to Jackie Collins, and focus  Jackie Collins on Black History Month.  Black History Month

 Samuel Johnson Prize Man Booker Prize  Events 2015

The £50,000 prize is  A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara one of the world's most (US) important literary awards and has the power to  The Fishermen - Chigozie transform the fortunes of authors Obioma (Nigeria) and publishers. Any novel originally written in English and published in the UK in the year of the prize is E B OOKS , E M A G A Z I N E S eligible, regardless of the nationality A N D E A UDIOBOOKS of their author. However, the novel must be an original work in English - not a translation - and not be self- published. The shortlist below, with the nationality of the author in brackets, was revealed last month whilst the winner will be announced on Tuesday 13th October. Staying with the theme of the Man Booker we have also put together a special eBooks collection of 30 titles which either won or were shortlisted for the prize over the years. To view, borrow and download, just go to our eBooks page, display  Satin Island by Tom McCarthy Menu and look for the Man Booker (UK) Prize link under Featured  A Brief History of Seven Killings Collections on the left. - Marlon James (Jamaica) http://digitallibrary.leicester.gov.uk or use the Overdrive app on a  A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne mobile device. Tyler (US)  The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota (UK) J A C K I E C OLLINS Despite being a naturalised American, with a dual British “DEATH AND TAXES , Y O U passport, she never forgot her roots CAN ' T AVOID EITHER ." and was made an OBE in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to So said Jackie Collins, who sadly fiction and charity. passed away last month at the age of 77. Less than two weeks before her death, Collins came to the UK to promote the final book in the series, The Santangelos, making numerous TV and radio appearances, looking as Selling more than 500 million books glamorous as ever and giving no in 40 countries, Jackie Collins hint as to her ill health. started writing fiction while at school in , selling steamy stories to She had previously said in her classmates, before she was interviews that she was writing expelled! another book, as well as working on her autobiography, the title of which Her first novel, The World is Full of she said was ‘Reform School or Married Men, was published in Hollywood’! 1968 and was a bestseller that was banned in Australia. She followed Jackie Collins, 1937-2015 this up with , which was turned into a film starring her sister . Jackie went on to write a sequel, The Bitch, was also B L A C K H I S T O R Y M ONTH starred her sister. Both films were big successes but were sneered at by critics.

The novelist was scathing about Collins' novels, calling them "evil". In an episode of Black History Month is held the chat show in 1987 in annually to celebrate, recognize which they both appeared, Cartland and value the inspirational launched into an attack on Collins' individuals and events from within books, though Jackie managed to the Black and Minority Ethnic keep good-humoured throughout, communities. It is a time to saying that she thought there was remember and celebrate important room for both their brands of fiction. people from the past and also those who contribute to and help society today.

Events taking place include: Somali and English and, if you want to, sing along as well! Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, Highfields Library, 17th October, For more information on events across 1:00-4.00pm the region go to the website There is a lack of awareness of www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/listings/ Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, not region/east-midlands/ to mention stigma around the condition. This is evident S AMU E L J O H N S O N P RIZE particularly in the high risk African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, South The prize aims to Asian, Indian and Mediterranean reward the best of communities who are most at risk of non-fiction and is inheriting Sickle Cell and open to authors in Thalassaemia. Therefore, it is the areas of important to continually educate current affairs, history, politics, and re-educate our communities science, sport, travel, biography, about this condition, screening and autobiography and the arts. Last testing. year’s winner was Helen MacDonald with ‘H is for Hawk’

Shivi Ramoutar, Highfields Library, The 2015 longlist is: 20th October, 5:00pm Shivi has made it her culinary  Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised mission to twist classic Caribbean Life - Jonathan Bate dishes and ingredients from her  Fighters in the Shadows: A New childhood into vibrant, fresh and History of the French easy-to-make delights. Resistance - Robert Gildea Cited by The Guardian as  Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane "Caribbean food supremo", Shivi  The Planet Remade - Oliver has whipped up her tropical delights Morton across London and the UK,  Guantanamo Diary - including her Caribbean street food Mohamedou Ould Slahi at Feast food festival in London.  Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Somali Lullabies, St Matthews Modern Russia - Peter st Library, 21 October, 11am - Pomerantsev 12noon and also at Highfields  They All Love Jack: Busting the th Library on 26 October, 11am- Ripper - Bruce Robinson, 12noon.  The Four-Dimensional Human - Laurence Scott Bring your little ones along to this  Neurotribes: The Legacy of session and hear how traditional Autism and How to Think lullabies from all over Somalia have Smarter About People Who been collected together in a new Think Differently - Steve publication from Leicester’s Quirky Silberman Press. During the session we will talk about the lullabies in both  The Unravelling: High Hopes Get Online Week, 12th-18th and Missed Opportunities in Iraq October - Emma Sky Get an E-mail Account –  Black Earth - Tim Snyder  Beaumont Leys Library,  This Divided Island - Samanth Wednesday 14th October, half- Subramanian hour sessions between 2:00-

4:00pm

 Belgrave Library, Thursday 15th October, 10:00-12noon

 Central Library, Friday 16th October, 2:00-4:00pm

The shortlist will be announced on Booking essential Sunday 11th October with the winner revealed on Monday 2nd Phoenix November. Community Cinema

E VENTS A new programme of films brought to your local community venue Beaumont Leys Library Club

Acupuncture and Chinese medicine Beaumont Leys Library – a talk by Acupuncturist Rod Edlin. th Titfield Thunderbolt, 8 October, Wednesday 7th September, 2:30pm 10:30am–12noon Coleman Neighbourhood Centre th The Wizard of Oz, 10 October, Leicester in WW1 Exhibition – a 10:00am touring version of the Leicester at Fosse Neighbourhood Centre War 1914-1915 exhibition My Fair Lady, 19th October, 4:00pm

th Pork Pie Library & Community  Belgrave Library, from Mon 28 Centre September. Some Like It Hot, 28th October, 3:00pm  St Barnabas Library, from th Belgrave Neighbourhood Centre Monday 12 October. Halloween shorts, 30th October, 10:30am  Hamilton Library, from Monday East West Centre 26th October, with an illustrated th th Gattu, 4 November, 10:30am talk on Friday 30 October, 2:00-3:30pm For contact details and more information on what’s happening in your local library please go to http://whatson.leicester.gov.uk

All information is correct at the time of publication. Events are free unless otherwise stated. Please note that for many events booking is essential.

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