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Booker Prize Foundation RSS feedMartin Amis: How the sexual revolution helped destroy my sister Sally
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Martin Amis tells how the sexual revolution of the Sixties and Seventies played a part in destroying his sister by putting terrifying pressure on women2009-11-20T08:14:34ZTake 'history' by artists with a big pinch of salt
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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 history2009-10-09T08:13:09ZHilary Mantel wins the Booker with Tudor novel
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Bookies' favourite Hilary Mantel scooped the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her 'demanding' novel about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell2009-10-07T06:26:59ZBaby boomers are the curse of my generation
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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 boomer2009-10-07T07:50:18ZWhy do so few politicians go to the Proms?
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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 identity2009-09-15T07:28:33ZKatie Price knows how to kiss and sell
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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 world2009-09-02T07:36:39ZNever mind GCSEs, judge students by their howlers
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Another summer, another sun-dappled shot of pretty 16-year-girls hyperventilating at their GCSE results2009-08-28T07:27:27ZWhere is the novelist to do our city justice?
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Dickens’s novels seemed to encapsulate the entire city and London became the central character of his work2009-07-31T07:17:58ZLondoner in running for Booker
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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 longlist2009-07-29T09:09:54ZThis thrift nostalgia’s just more lifestyle tat
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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 past2009-04-17T09:03:24ZWho foots the bill if we pay granny for childcare?
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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.2009-03-26T09:22:44ZMy novelist mother was insane to kick me out because of drugs
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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 book2009-03-03T09:21:35ZWinners and losers of 2008
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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 freefall2008-12-24T10:14:26ZWho's in and who's out
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2008-10-20T07:36:25ZAnd the winners are not...
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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?2008-10-15T07:55:46ZTiger burns so bright for Booker winner Adiga
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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 Prize2008-10-15T08:46:37ZBooker judge criticises 'highbrow' male panels
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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 ones2008-10-14T08:29:24ZWhen the going gets tough, hit the shops
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As the financial markets dip up and down, anything feels possible and suddenly life seems very harsh2008-10-09T08:09:39ZLiterary Life
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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.2008-10-02T11:56:41ZCrowds go wild for Hartnett's Rain Man
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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 time2008-09-22T13:23:02ZThe finest genre writer never to win the Booker
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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 history2008-09-16T07:47:16ZYou can’t tell a Booker by listening to the judges
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Today the Man Booker shortlist is announced once again. How much respect should we pay it? A lot, a little or none at all?2008-09-09T09:11:04ZLinda Grant leads charge as the old guard are left off Booker list
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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 shortlist2008-09-09T13:24:18ZFrom soaps to the Booker
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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 critics2008-08-18T07:27:24ZRushdie in running to win his second Booker of the year
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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 award2008-07-29T14:56:58ZLiterature Festival is Making Hay in the metropolis
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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?2008-07-03T23:00:00ZICA hosts The Booker at the Movies screenings
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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.2008-06-05T23:00:00ZJordan has shown the book trade how it's done
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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 concluded2008-02-19T08:33:40ZStodgy at Shanghai
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Dim sum at Shanghai Blues was as stodgy as an Ed Balls speech, says restaurant critic Mark Bolland.2007-10-29T00:00:00ZYoung Vic stages £12million comeback
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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.2006-10-11T08:31:21Z