Tin hats on for the Man Booker wars. It is one of the delights of London life that a prize with the elevated task of picking the Commonwealth's best read should end up with the sort of backstage sniping last seen when Cheryl Cole left the XFactor... more
The shock exclusion today of Alan Hollinghurst from the Man Booker shortlist paved the way for Julian Barnes to reach the last six of the Man Booker prize... more
The judges for the Man Booker Prize change every year, so although the award appears to have a continuous identity as the arbiter of excellence in English language fiction, in reality what you get each time is a bit of a toss-up... more
Shoulders hunched, knees jerked forward, one low-hanging hand contorted, Kathryn Hunter gazes at us with swivel-eyed interest in Kafka's Monkey.... more
Thirteen London writers from first-time authors to publishing veteran Diana Athill, now 90, are in the running for the Costa Book Awards this year... more
The experience of being an immigrant fuelled the writing of The White Tiger, the debut novel by Indian writer Aravind Adiga which has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize... more
One of this year's Man Booker Prize judges has criticised male academics who sit on literary panels, claiming they pick "highbrow" novels over readable ones... more
The latest epic from Salman Rushdie and the hotly tipped story of post-9/11 America by Joseph O'Neill have failed to make the Man Booker shortlist... more
Salman Rushdie, already winner of this year's Best of Booker Prize for Midnight's Children and shortlisted three times previously, is once again among those in line to win the literary award... more
It doesn't take long to realise that The Pride of Parnell Street slots effortlessly into the proud Irish storytelling tradition of JM Synge, says Fiona Mountford.... more
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