He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

The book was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

The book won the Creative Freedom Award in 1999 and was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.

In 1999 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize in 2000 for his book Time, Love, Memory about Seymour Benzer.

Julian Barnes ( 1946 -) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending, while three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

His book, A Political Suicide ( Politico's Publishing ISBN 978-1-84275-227-2 ), was published in 2008 and it was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award.

Like Chong's first book, The Girl in the Picture was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction.

The book peaked at number four on the New York Times Best Seller list, was nominated for the 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award, and was shortlisted for the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke Award and Locus Awards.

His book, So It Won't Go Away, was shortlisted for the 2006 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Her poetry collection Until the Light Bends from Black Moss Press was shortlisted for the 2005 Archibald Lampman Award for poetry, and the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for best book of the year.

In 2004, the book was shortlisted for a Hugo Award for Best Related Book and a World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.

The accompanying book, The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour by David Attenborough ( ISBN 0-00-219912-2 ), was published by BBC Books on 4 October 1990 and was shortlisted for the 1991 Rhône-Poulenc Prize.

Her book South of the Tudo Bem Cafe, 1990, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.

£ 1000 per book is awarded to the authors of the remaining shortlisted books.

The book received wide critical acclaim ; it was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction ( 2004 ) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers ' Prize for Best First Book ( 2005 ).

His first novel, Blue Burneau ( 1994 ), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize and the book Moon Country, published in 1996, describes a visit to Iceland with Simon Armitage.

The book is one of Manning's lesser-known books, and she was disappointed that it was not shortlisted for the Booker prize.

This book was shortlisted for " History Book of the Year " at the 2005 National Book Awards.

His book Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel, a biography of the Victorian era politician and swindler Jabez Balfour, was shortlisted for the Saga Award for Wit, also known as the Silver Booker, as well as the Whitbread Book Award for biography.

" His book No Place Like Home, in which he retraced the route of the civil rights Freedom Riders, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 1999.

The book was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1995.

The book has won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Award.

Secondary level teaching resources containing excerpts of each shortlisted book are created in order to help Canadian high school students appreciate the literary excellence of Canadian nonfiction writers.

In 2011 Lord Jones published his first book " Fixing Britain-the Business of Reshaping our Nation " which was shortlisted for the 2012 CMI Management Book of the Year.

It was published in November, 2008 and won the International Churchill Society Book Award and was shortlisted for two other military history book prizes.

In 2006 the book was shortlisted for The Aventis Prizes for Science Books award, eventually losing out to David Bodanis ' Electric Universe.