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- Land of Marvels: A Novel 8 Jan 2009 07:19 GMT
... fully realized. It's in this historically rich locale, at this politically volatile time, that Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth sets his novel, the relevance of which is uncanny for obvious ...
- A guide to summer reading 8 Jan 2009 03:31 GMT
... Sydney author STEVE Toltz was robbed of the Man Booker Prize. A Fraction of the Whole will take you all summer to read at just ...
- Scottish cities offered chance to bid for UK culture crown 8 Jan 2009 00:57 GMT
... as providing the venue for the biggest prizes in the arts, such as the Booker Prize for literature, the Turner Prize for art, music's Brit Awards and the Baftas. Glasgow ...
- Author Salman Rushdie's 'The Enchantress of Florence' new in paperback this week 7 Jan 2009 12:22 GMT
... biography. "Land of Marvels: A Novel" By Barry Unsworth (Nan A. Talese, $26) The Booker Prize winner sets his latest in Mesopotamia on the eve of World War I. "The ...
- Plans for British City of Culture 7 Jan 2009 09:30 GMT
... events the winning city would gain the right to host, such as the Man Booker Prize and the Sterling Prize for architecture. It will also need to consider how much ...
- Athill pips Indian-origin scribe for Costa Awards 6 Jan 2009 18:31 GMT
... author Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture, which lost to Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger for Booker Prize, won the Costa Novel Award category. The novel category shortlist had included The Other ...
- Our pick of the pick of the best business books of 2008 6 Jan 2009 17:16 GMT
... this is a list of business books, one is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, The White Tiger , by Aravind Adiga, which was described by Roger ...
- Netherland tops league of 2008 critics' picks 6 Jan 2009 14:51 GMT
... , Tuesday 6 January 2009 11.28 GMT He might have missed out on the Booker prize, but Joseph O'Neill's novel about cricket and post-9/11 New York was the literary critics' ...
- Neverland tops league of 2008 critics' picks 6 Jan 2009 13:13 GMT
... , Tuesday 6 January 2009 11.28 GMT He might have missed out on the Booker prize, but Joseph O'Neill's novel about cricket and post-9/11 New York was the literary critics' ...
- Barry, Jones and Athill win at Costas 6 Jan 2009 10:31 GMT
... Novel Award for The Secret Scripture (Faber), which was also nominated for the Man Booker Prize. The first novel award went to Sadie Jones for her Orange-shortlisted The Outcast (Vintage). ...
- Nominees for Costa Book of the Year announced 6 Jan 2009 10:20 GMT
... his "exquisitely written love story" The Secret Scripture, having missed out on the Man Booker Prize to Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. ...
- Costa Book Award winners revealed 6 Jan 2009 08:17 GMT
... a very exciting awards ceremony later this month." Barry was nominated for the Man Booker prize last year Barry, who is the bookmakers' favourite to win the prize, missed out ...
- 'The Clothes on Their Backs,' by Linda Grant 6 Jan 2009 05:34 GMT
... and Londoner Vivien Kovacs, the main character in Linda Grant's idiosyncratic and engrossing 2008 Booker Prize finalist, when the young woman flubs her first attempt at literary journalism, something she ...
- 'The First Person,' by Ali Smith 6 Jan 2009 05:34 GMT
... Smith, whose novels "Hotel World" and "The Accidental" were both short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, has arranged her fourth short-story collection as a kind of running argument between realism ...
- Arts staff picks its favorite titles and tracks of 2008 6 Jan 2009 05:31 GMT
... vampires, the characters managed to stay down-to-earth and relatable. This year's winner of the Booker Prize for fiction, “The White Tiger,” is an imaginative and moving novel about the class ...
- Irish love story wins Costa Book Award 6 Jan 2009 04:52 GMT
... biography winners, respectively. Mr Barry’s acclaimed The Secret Scripture was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize last year , while Ms Athill is the oldest winner of a Costa category ...
- Sebastian Barry novel wins Costa Prize for fiction 6 Jan 2009 02:13 GMT
... HAVING ALMOST but not quite won the 2008 Man Booker prize, Sebastian Barry's novel, The Secret Scripture , was yesterday declared winner of the Costa ...
- 91-year-old wins Costa Book Award 6 Jan 2009 01:50 GMT
... check for 25,000 pounds. Dublin-born Barry was one of six nominees for the 2008 Booker Prize with "The Secret Scripture," the second time he has been nominated for what is ...
- Authors named for Costa Book Awards 5 Jan 2009 22:13 GMT
... the Novel Award category for The Secret Scripture after missing out on the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in October. Athill won the Biography Award for her memoir, Somewhere Towards ...
- Karl Schembri In my book'¦ 5 Jan 2009 21:51 GMT
... it elicits no interest beyond the immediate literary establishment as opposed to, say, the Booker Prize in the UK or the Pulitzer in the US. Be that as it may, ...
- Barry wins the Costa Novel Award 5 Jan 2009 21:51 GMT
... better book this year." Barry's book, which was shortlisted last year for the Man Booker Prize, will now go forward for the Costa Book of the Year award, which will ...
- Barry, 91-year-old among Costa Book Award winners 5 Jan 2009 20:16 GMT
... check for 25,000 pounds. Dublin-born Barry was one of six nominees for the 2008 Booker Prize with The Secret Scripture, the second time he has been nominated for what is ...
- Memoirs of a rich crowded love story 5 Jan 2009 18:31 GMT
... Memoirs of a rich crowded love story The 1978 Booker Prize winner– The Sea, The Sea written by Iris Murdoch, is what the cover claims, ...
- Unsworth novel looks at earlier rivalry over Iraq 5 Jan 2009 16:31 GMT
... the rush to secure resources are the main themes of a new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth set in the pre-World War One region of the Ottoman empire ...
- Register for Key West Literary Seminar 5 Jan 2009 16:30 GMT
... on literary quality. That means a slate full of Pulitzer, National Book Award and Booker Prize contenders, but few actual historians and no best-selling pop novelists. "Except for Gore Vidal ...
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