The WH Smith Literary Award was an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors...
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Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden (born 18 November 1955) is a British peer, and descendant of the founders of the stationery group WH Smith. Smith is...
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Our Price (section Flotation and sale to WH Smith)
London Stock Exchange. Two years later, it was acquired by WH Smith for £43 million, with Smith's Sound FX immediately absorbed into Our Price. Several members...
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Ltd. In 1999, Hodder Headline was acquired by WH Smith. It was acquired by Hachette Livre from WH Smith in 2005. "Publishers who made it big in the Eighties...
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that took him to Port Arthur in Tasmania. 1987 Duff Cooper Prize. 1988 WH Smith Literary Award. The Fatal Shore was originally published in 1986 by Alfred...
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Smith. "History of WHSmith 1792-1900". WHSmith plc. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Cavendish, Richard (November 1998). "The First WH...
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someone named Neal, although she does not elaborate his identity. 2003 WH Smith Literary Award – The Little Friend 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist...
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Gay News (section Campaign against W.H. Smith)
paper's readership had grown, W.H. Smith agreed to distribute the paper in its London bookstalls. In January 1978, W.H. Smith dropped Gay News from distribution...
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ninth novel by Isabel Colegate, published in 1980, which won the 1981 WH Smith Literary Award. It was adapted into the 1985 film The Shooting Party. It...
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(born May 1948) is a British businessman, the former chairman of retailers WH Smith and BrightHouse, and of Post Office Limited. Earlier, he was finance director...
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awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such...
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PLC changed its name back to Smiths News PLC. "Annual Report 2023" (PDF). Smiths News. Retrieved 7 February 2024. "WH Smith to demerge news distribution...
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corporation based on gross sales. In 1792, Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna established W.H. Smith as a news vending business in London that would become...
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racy 1973 novel Bedroll Bella, about a Geordie groupie, was banned by WH Smith and John Menzies. In 2009 he published a memoir of his boyhood in a Geordie...
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April 2013). "WH Smith buys Past Times brand". The Daily Telegraph. Rigby, Chloe (12 April 2013). "Past Times website taken down as WH Smith buys the brand"...
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American Pastoral. In 2001, The Human Stain was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year, as well as France's Prix...
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The Full Monty. Lyndhurst was the public face of the stationery store WH Smith between 1997 and 1999, starring in their adverts as all four members of...
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content, and was banned from many chain stores, including Woolworths and WH Smith. It ceased publication after four issues due to poor sales. The editor...
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second novel, The Treatment, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award. Her third novel, Tokyo, was published in May...
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in his defence that all of the images were sold by websites including WH Smith, Tesco, Waterstones, and Amazon. Nevertheless his collection of images...
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novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy. It was the winner of the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award for Fiction. The novel follows the fortunes of Cathy Scarlet...
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Filofax branded and compatible inserts and Filofaxes on sale in WH Smith in Pontefract....
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Secrets 1994: Trillium Book Award, English nomination for Open Secrets 1994: WH Smith Literary Award for Open Secrets 1995: Lannan Literary Award for Fiction...
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London. 20 May 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012. WH Smith PLC. "History of WH Smith: 1990-Today". WH Smith Company Information. Retrieved 17 January 2012...
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Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses Wales Book of the Year WH Smith Literary Award (discontinued) Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (discontinued)...
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the time. Smith died three months after the publication of this cartoon (Punch, 1891) Cavendish, Richard (November 1998). "The First WH Smith Railway Bookstall"...
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finalist for Out of Sheer Rage 2003: Lannan Literary Fellowship 2004: WH Smith Best Travel Book Award winner for Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered...
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described the book as "tragic, fever-dream realism." The novel won the WH Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in...
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parenthood. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the W.H. Smith Award for Fiction in 2002. Part of the money he earned with his next book...
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