Accompanying the new Spread the Word website the list is designed to encourage reading and get people talking about books. From this diverse list of fifty, which includes writers like Tahmima Ahnam, Matthew Kneale, Stephanie Nolen and Esther Freud, visitors to the website will be asked to vote for their favourite; with the ten most popular being announced in January 2009. The winner will be announced on World Book Day, 5^th March 2009,  and will receive a £5000 prize.

Praise for SERIOUS THINGS:

'Structured like a thriller, SERIOUS THINGS is about…the slow death of the soul and its eventual redemption…it manages to refract LORD OF THE FLIES at times, THE SECRET HISTORY at others, even cast a glance at DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Norminton's measured, elegant prose makes beauty and menace sing in perfect harmony…his scaling of the treacherous cliffs of the human heart will take your breath away.'  

Neel Mukherjee, Sunday Telegraph

'Engaging, energetic…subtle, clever and immensely enjoyable.'                                                          

The Guardian

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