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- Women authors cry foul over UK publishing magazine's 'sexist' selection of 2009's top 10 books 8 Nov 2009 07:57 GMT
... year's biggest literary successes, such as Hilary Mantel, whose Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize, or Alice Munro, who won its international equivalent. The Independent quoted Lionel Shriver, the ...
- Thomas Cromwell, adviser to Henry VIII, is subject of brilliant, original 'Wolf Hall' 8 Nov 2009 06:56 GMT
... in this highly original novel, a fictional biography of Cromwell that won the Man Booker Prize in September. History aside, "Wolf Hall" breathes life into a world of 500 years ...
- Thomas Cromwell, adviser to Henry VIII, is subject of brilliant, original 'Wolf Hall' (Today) 8 Nov 2009 06:56 GMT
... in this highly original novel, a fictional biography of Cromwell that won the Man Booker Prize in September. History aside, "Wolf Hall" breathes life into a world of 500 years ...
- Book review: Thomas Cromwell: once a cad, now a charmer 8 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
... Henry VIII? Anne Boleyn? 500-plus pages? If Mantel hadn't won the 2009 Booker Prize for this I would never have read it. And would have missed out big-time. ...
- Cash reward shouldn't be the only motivation for writing 7 Nov 2009 16:13 GMT
... famed literary prize. Writing in the Wood said thus: “After serving on the 1994 Booker prize committee, I made a pledge never to judge a big fiction prize again, and ...
- Exotic and colourful tales from the ethnic ghetto 7 Nov 2009 17:30 GMT
... Lane about the lives of Bangladeshi migrants in London. It was shortlisted for the Booker prize, with critics loving "emotional conflicts" of the immigrant. Her second, Alentejo Blue, set in ...
- Booker Prize nominee Sarah Waters on Tipping the Velvet, lesbian fiction and her appearance at the Homotopia festval 4 Nov 2009 08:50 GMT
... Two-time Booker Prize nominee Sarah Waters is the star guest at Liverpool's Homotopia festival. She talks to ...
- Aspiring writers find their voice with help from Booker winner 6 Nov 2009 06:43 GMT
... month that her life would carry on as normal, despite having won the Man Booker Prize, she meant every word. Three weeks after securing the country's most prestigious literary award ...
- Adiga, Rushdie shortlisted for Dublin Literary award 4 Nov 2009 16:54 GMT
... Adiga, Rushdie shortlisted for Dublin Literary award Booker Prize winners Aravind Adiga and Salman Rushdie have been named in the longlist for the ...
- Impac list shows worldwide vitality of fiction 2 Nov 2009 00:53 GMT
... Flanagan is deservedly nominated for Wanting, a beautiful book exploring colonial brutality. The 1994 Booker prize winner, Scottish writer James Kelman, would be expected to make the shortlist with his ...
- Four Irish authors on Impac longlist 2 Nov 2009 12:56 GMT
... Flanagan is deservedly nominated for , a beautiful book exploring colonial brutality. The 1994 Booker prize winner, Scottish writer James Kelman, would be expected to make the shortlist with his ...
- The LRB at 30 2 Nov 2009 13:11 GMT
... social threat: ‘He always says, ‘That’ll go in the diary’.’ came from the Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel. Mantel’s account of her life as a social worker in the ...
- When HQ met... Sebastian Barry 5 Nov 2009 15:59 GMT
... it the 16th accolade that the book has been nominated for, including the Man Booker prize. It narrowly lost out to Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger in the Booker stakes, ...
- Medical Doctor Battles Adiga, Chimamanda 5 Nov 2009 12:57 GMT
... Orange Prize winner Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie is battling a Canadian medical doctor, James Maskalyk, Booker prize winner Aravind Adiga, as well as three other authors for this year's John Llewellyn ...
- Irish authors on IMPAC longlist 2 Nov 2009 13:30 GMT
... while Joseph O'Neill is nominated for 'Netherland'. O'Neill's novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and Barry's was shortlisted. Antrim-born Deirdre Madden, an Orange Prize nominee this ...
- Leicester Literary Festival speaks volumes 6 Nov 2009 13:51 GMT
... Thursday, November 12. Her latest novel, The Little Stranger, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Saturday is a time for young book worms. Acclaimed children's writer Jacqueline Wilson will ...
- A winning formula for novelists: write about the Holocaust 6 Nov 2009 11:55 GMT
... What do you do if your novel about a man who befriends animals with an allegorical bent ends ...
- William Trevor's Love and Summer (review) 5 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
... was longlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize. It's by 82-year-old William Trevor, who's an author often described as the master of ...
- Fundraising in memory of Iris 5 Nov 2009 16:41 GMT
... Botley, the Alzheimer’s Society and the village church in the process. Miss Murdoch, a Booker Prize winner, lived at Vale House for about a month before she died. Alzheimer’s Society ...
- 'Shocking' hype for Yann Martel's Holocaust tale 3 Nov 2009 10:50 GMT
... essence." It's Martel's first new work of fiction since , which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2002. That book featured a tiger named Richard Parker as a ...
- Festival great success 6 Nov 2009 10:21 GMT
... event was followed by a screening of Thunderball. Right next door, the event featuring Booker Prize winner Ben Okri began before the movie ended. Many people were keen to attend ...
- Adiga, Rushdie in Dublin Literary Award longlist 4 Nov 2009 05:15 GMT
... NEW DELHI: Booker Prize winners Aravind Adiga and Salman Rushdie have been named in the longlist for the ...
- Book about popular nightspot in city sells out in 48 hours 4 Nov 2009 06:56 GMT
... book to sell more quickly in the store was Wolf Hall, by this year's Booker Prize winner and visiting lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Hilary Mantel. Mr Anderson said he ...
- Thinkers to converge at Mardi Gras 2010 4 Nov 2009 08:15 GMT
... Fingersmith. Her most recent novel, The Little Stranger, was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Waters will be featured in a special in-conversation session. Paul Burston is one of ...
- Hit Obama books turn city publisher into Jamie Bling 4 Nov 2009 10:31 GMT
... due to the collapse of Woolworths – previously counted its biggest success as the Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi. It is preparing for further success towards the end ...
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