Caffè Nero Launches Major Book Awards
A year after rival coffee company Costa scrapped its popular book awards, Caffè Nero has announced its new suite of writing awards. The Nero Awards will choose winners in children’s books, debut fiction, fiction, and nonfiction. There will be no poetry award in Nero’s inaugural year. The awards are open to authors based in the UK and Ireland, and each award will carry a prize of £5,000. The four category winners will then compete for an overall award, titled the Nero Gold prize, which is worth £30,000.
Halle Bailey and Fantasia Barrino Star in First Trailer for The Color Purple
The first trailer for the musical film The Color Purple has finally dropped! The movie, based on the novel of the same name by Alice Walker, stars American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino in her major motion picture debut. Also starring in the film are Halle Bailey, Taraji P. Henson, H.E.R, Colman Domingo, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Corey Hawkins, and Danielle Brooks. The Color Purple is out in theaters on Christmas Day.
Overdue Book Returned Almost 100 Years Late to California Library
Better late than never? An overdue book was just returned to a Northern California library almost 100 years late. “It’s falling apart so it doesn’t have a spine anymore,” said Chris Kreiden, the director of the Saint Helena library…All of us are just, you know, wondering where the book could have been for so long, you know, from being checked out in 1927.” Published in 1892, this late library book was actually one of the first books available back when the library was a subscription service. A mystery man returned the book, A History of the United States by Benson Lossing, to the library last week.
Go Under the Sea with the Best Mermaids in Literature
If you love mermaids of all kinds — the beautiful and the tragic and the grotesque — here are some of the best mermaids from books.