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19/02/2025

A great read set on the Titanic and in the city of New York :Simon & Schuster Author Frances Quinn

Frances Quinn for the win!

The Lost Passenger is a gripping read - It sets sail on Feb 27 - get onboard!

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Drama set in New York via the Titanic Frances Quinn is a go to author for me. After The Bonesetter Woman and The Smallest Man were brilliant and opened up worlds I had never imagined and characters I am still thinking about. The Lost Passenger teased a story of a women wanting to start over …

27/01/2025

I can't believe it but it's TheBookTrail's 10th birthday!!!!

HUGE prizes to win to celebrate this milestone and more to come!

Enter here by leaving a nice birthday message and also the title of a book you would recommend - let's share the booklove!

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24/01/2025

Best Live Action


The Troubled Deep by Rob Parker, Author – Bloomsbury Publishing UK

The Wrong Hands By Mark Billingham – Little, Brown Book Group

The Favourites by – Vintage Books

Liars Island by – HQ Stories

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24/01/2025

Best Cinematography

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And the nominees are:

Eviewoods– HarperCollins
– Avon Books UK
Sam Blake Books – Corvusbooks
- Bloomsbury Publishing UK

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24/01/2025

Best novel (that should be a foreign language film)


And the nominations are:

El Tercer Lago –SPAIN – Ediciones Maeva

Murder at Mount Fiji – JAPAN – Penguin Random House

El pasado nunca nos olvida – SPAIN – Ediciones Maeva

The Clues in the Fjord ICELAND – Zaffre Books

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24/01/2025

Adapted screenplay/Novel AWARD


https://www.thebooktrail.com/booktrail-oscars-nominations/

And the nominees are:
Doubleday Books
– Penguin Michael Joseph
Penguin Random House
Einstein Vendetta Penguin Random House

Who gets your vote?

24/01/2025

Vote here for what you think the best book for Visual Effects is



The Glassmaker by – HarperCollins

The Instrumentalist Constable – Bloomsbury Publishing UK

The Paintress by Anderson – Street Publishing

City of Night Birds by Kim – Oneworld Publications

23/01/2025

Best novel to film?

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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Orbit

The Serpent’s Garden Howard Linskey

A Trial in Three Acts Viper Books
They Had It Coming by

23/01/2025

Original (bookscreenplay)
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Beautiful Ugly Alice Feeney Pan Macmillan

City of Night Birds Oneworld Publications

This Book Will Bury Me Ashley Winstead Head of Zeus Books
The Tomorrow Project by

23/01/2025

Award for Best Leading man in a book

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Homecoming Pan Macmillan and Kate Morton
The Lollipop Man Allison & Busby Books
The Burial Place Stig Abel HarperCollins
A Beautiful Way to Die Elenikwriter Head of Zeus Books

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23/01/2025

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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Notes on a Drowning Anna Mazzola Orion Publishing Group
Nephthys
Death in the Arctic – Penguin Random House

Lost in the Garden – Dead Ink Books

23/01/2025

THE BOOKTRAIL OSCARS ARE BACK!!!

First up - BEST PICTURE (on the cover)
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The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
Bloomsbury Publishing UK

Nephthys by Rachel Louise Driscoll
Vintage Books


The Small Museum by Jody Cooksley
Allison & Busby Books


Sirens by Emilia hart books
HarperCollins

23/01/2025

The BookTrail Oscars are BAAAAAACK!!

Ten categories
Get those votes in!!

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21/01/2025

Jessica Bull has a new book coming out in March and the ball starts NOW!

https://www.thebooktrail.com/book-trails/a-fortune-most-fatal-jessica-bull/

Penguin Michael Joseph

18/01/2025

Sagas are the way to go if you want to get an insight into history - I was fascinated by buttons at a young age and turns out, I still am!

https://www.thebooktrail.com/book-trails/the-pearl-button-girl-annie-murray/

Annie Murray Pan Macmillan

08/01/2025

Creepy Cornish house alert...

Penryth Hall and its chilling locations with Jess Armstrong The BookTrail's Bookreview Discover the locations and settings of the novel with The BookTrail Literary Travel Agency. Travel by the Book

06/01/2025

There's a top thriller out Jan 16
New series from Rob Parker
Cold case investigation with a former police diver as a central character

Really good!

Crime fiction set in Norfolk Troubled Deep by Rob Parker The BookTrail's Bookreview Discover the locations and settings of the novel with The BookTrail Literary Travel Agency. Travel by the Book

03/01/2025

NEWS!!

The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation have just launched their search for the next adventure writer and it could be you!

The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is an international prize that supports and celebrates the best adventure writing today. The Prize is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English.

1st January: Submissions Open
6th February: Submissions Close (23.59 GMT)

Enter here: https://www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org/awards/intro

via Wilbur Smith