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Hilary Mantel wins the Booker with Tudor novel

07.10.09
Bookies' favourite Hilary Mantel scooped the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her 'demanding' novel about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell... more

I'm captivated by the cool candour of this vintage voice

09.01.09
Like everybody who's ever been involved in a literary prize - I was once a judge in the Biography category of the Whitbreads (now the Costas) - I've ceased to pay them much mind... more

The age-old game of literary prizes

07.01.09
This year’s Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual... more

The age-old game of literary prizes

07.01.09
This year’s Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual... more

Man Booker winner heads all-male John Llewellyn Rhys Prize shortlist

03.11.08
An all-male shortlist headed by Man Booker winner Aravind Adiga has been announced for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize... more

Who's in and who's out

20.10.08
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Tiger burns so bright for Booker winner Adiga

15.10.08
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

And the winners are not...

15.10.08
The Man Booker judges have determined that Aravind Adiga's debut novel about the seamier side of Indian life is the best fiction of the year. How do they do that?... more

Capital projects for recession

15.10.08
UNEMPLOYMENT is on the rise again. Today's figures from the Office of National Statistics are likely to show an increase to 1.75 million; some economists think that by Christmas it may rise to the psychologically significant figure of two million. This is not just a short-term result of the crisis in the banks but the result of a slowdown in manufacturing and services too.... more

Booker judge criticises 'highbrow' male panels

14.10.08
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

When the going gets tough, hit the shops

09.10.08
As the financial markets dip up and down, anything feels possible and suddenly life seems very harsh... more

Linda Grant leads charge as the old guard are left off Booker list

09.09.08
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

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