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Take 'history' by artists with a big pinch of salt

09.10.09
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history... more

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

Baby boomers are the curse of my generation

07.10.09
The devil, as ever, is in the detail. And the devil, I am coming to believe, was born between 1946 and 1964, fully returns the Rolling Stones' sympathy and probably owns a second home in Provence. For the devil is a baby boomer... more

Why do so few politicians go to the Proms?

15.09.09
It is always said that women have to worry about what they wear and men do not. Yet women are making decisions based on aesthetics whereas for men they touch a fundamental sense of identity... more

Katie Price knows how to kiss and sell

02.09.09
Whatever her other long-term achievements may turn out to be, Katie Price deserves respect for having so completely had it over the whole publishing world... more

Never mind GCSEs, judge students by their howlers

28.08.09
Another summer, another sun-dappled shot of pretty 16-year-girls hyperventilating at their GCSE results... more

Where is the novelist to do our city justice?

31.07.09
Dickens’s novels seemed to encapsulate the entire city and London became the central character of his work... more

Londoner in running for Booker

29.07.09
Young south London writer whose every work has proved an award-winner joins veterans ASByatt, JM Coetzee and William Trevor on this year's Man Booker Prize longlist... more

This thrift nostalgia’s just more lifestyle tat

17.04.09
Everything has changed and we face a new future. The whole culture of gratuitous consumerism no longer seems fulfilling and we can’t afford it anyway. So what do we do? Become helplessly nostalgic for the past... more

Who foots the bill if we pay granny for childcare?

26.03.09
Yesterday I was tempted to phone my mum to ask her to hide the newspaper. A few times a month, my dad does emergency childcare for us. A new report suggests he should be paid for his services. And I don't want him getting any funny ideas.... more

My novelist mother was insane to kick me out because of drugs

03.03.09
The son of novelist Julie Myerson launched a scathing attack on his mother calling her "insane" for labelling him a drug addict in her new book... more

Winners and losers of 2008

24.12.08
After the past 12 months of highs and lows in the capital, Nick Curtis sorts out the London personalities with plenty to smile about from those who have gone into freefall... more

Who's in and who's out

20.10.08
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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

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

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

Literary Life

08.10.08
Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Crowds go wild for Hartnett's Rain Man

22.09.08
Whenever Hollywood star Josh Hartnett finishes a performance of Rain Man, a crowd of a hundred or more is standing to thank him for taking the time... more

The finest genre writer never to win the Booker

16.09.08
John le Carre has a new book out but it will win him no prizes: he disdains honours and forbids his novels from being put forward for the Booker Prize. And a good thing too, when so many fine novels have been overlooked for the award in its 40-year history... more

You can’t tell a Booker by listening to the judges

09.09.08
Today the Man Booker shortlist is announced once again. How much respect should we pay it? A lot, a little or none at all?... 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

From soaps to the Booker

18.08.08
When Tom Rob Smith's first novel made the longlist for our most prestigious literary prize it caused a publishing storm. Here he hits back at his critics ... more

Rushdie in running to win his second Booker of the year

29.07.08
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

Literature Festival is Making Hay in the metropolis

04.07.08
Surely if Hay-on-Wye can rig up a worldclass literary festival, our bustling metropolis can rouse itself for a couple of weeks of book chat? ... more

ICA hosts The Booker at the Movies screenings

06.06.08
The Booker at the Movies will screen four of the 39 films so far adapted from novels that won or were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.... more

Jordan has shown the book trade how it's done

19.02.08
Just before the Man Booker Prize was awarded last year, an enterprising journalist revealed that the entire shortlist of six had sold fewer copies than Crystal, the second novel issued under the name of Katie Price, the inflatable better known as Jordan. Her book had shifted 159,407 units in just three months, comfortably seeing off the Booker total of 120,770 (nearly all Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, anyway). Literary fiction is a goner, pundits glumly concluded... more

Stodgy at Shanghai

29.10.07
Dim sum at Shanghai Blues was as stodgy as an Ed Balls speech, says restaurant critic Mark Bolland.... more

At last, a great Southbank show

30.05.07
Nick Curtis, who grew up going to the Southbank, celebrates the complex's shift from bleak concrete jungle to cultural quarter to be proud of. ... more

Young Vic stages £12million comeback

11.10.06
The Young Vic re-opens its doors tonight following a £12.5 million redevelopment. Jude Law's favourite artistic haunt in the capital, has been closed for two years. ... more

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