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Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Davitt Awards for best Australian women's crime writing. This years winners are:

Adult Fiction

Sharp Shooter Marianne Delacourt

True Crime

Lady Killer by Ellen Connolly and Candace Sutton

Childrens & Young Adult Fiction

Liar Justine Larbalestier

Reader's Choice

Forbidden Fruit Kerry Greenwood

Alex Miller has won The Age's Book of the Year award, valued at $20 000, for his novel Lovesong. His bestselling novel also won the Fiction prize.

Kate Howarth's Ten Hail Mary's won the Non-Fiction prize, worth $10 000

A film about the founders of Google is in the works, with the movie to be based on the book Googled: The end of the world as we know it by Ken Auletta. The Google movie is following in the footsteps of The Social Network, a movie about the founder of Facebook, which was based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.

Congratulations to A S Byatt who has won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize, worth $17 000, for her novel The Children's Book.

The Children's Book was also shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2009.

In the UK, HarperCollins is being sued by the BBC , in an attempt to stop the publication of a memoir written by Top Gear's mysterious stunt driver The Stig.

Up until now, the identity of The Stig has been a well-kept secret and the BBC believes the memoir breaches contractual and confidentiality agreements.

UK tabloids are reporting that racing driver Ben Collins is The Stig, though no confirmation has been made.