Man Booker Prize

...dominated by works set in the past, including Hilary Mantel's magisterial recreation of the court of Henry VIII, winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. In a triumph of literary fiction over the mass market, Mantel's Wolf Hall briefly topped...

In this article: Allen Lane, Communism, God, Charles Darwin, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Hilary Mantel

...the head of the sales lists. This week's top 20 has two titles in translation, by Stieg Larsson and Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It features the year's Man Booker winner (Hilary Mantel), Robert Harris's most challenging Roman novel so far, Lustrum, and...

In this article: Man Booker, Stieg Larsson, Random House, John Grisham, Terry Pratchett, and Carlos Ruiz Zafon

...ABC. Gather your little Whos around the tube and tune in. Lynn Jacobson, Seattle Times A&E editor In this book of linked stories, Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga ("The White Tiger") takes his cue from James Joyce's "Dubliners" and...

In this article: Kittur, The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, Grinch, Seattle Times, Dr. Seuss, Dubliners, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and James Joyce

...in The New Yorker. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (Knopf, $27): This meaty historical novel, which won this year's prestigious Man Booker Prize, traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, advisor to Henry VIII (never a safe proposition).

In this article: Knopf, The Miami Herald, Henry VIII, The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell, St. Martin's Griffin, and Stieg Larsson

...the UK and Ireland. Launched in 1971, the awards recognize the "most enjoyable books of the year," and are a more populist version of the Booker Prize. Winners are chosen in five categories, and each receives GBP5,000 (EUR5,500); an overall...

In this article: UK, France, Mediabistro.com, Booker Prize, Google Books, Iphone, and Elizabeth Gilbert

...be entirely retired: "I think there might be a bit left in Belle de Jour yet," she said. The former call girl joined Hilary Mantel, the Man Booker prizewinner, on the programme, to discuss her literary influences. She said she was inspired...

In this article: Hilary Mantel, Sheffield University, Man Booker, Cancer, The Red and the Black, Eoin Colfer, and Stendhal

...deems the "most enjoyable books of the year." On November 24, shortlists for the 2009 awards were announced. Novel award finalists include Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel, Penelope Lively, Colm T�ibin, and the lesser-known author...

In this article: Booker Prize, Penelope Lively, and United Kingdom

Booker winner Hilary Mantel makes Costa shortlist Hilary Mantel triumphed in the Booker last month Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has made the shortlist for the Costa Book Awards with Wolf Hall. She is pitted against Penelope...

In this article: Booker Prize and Fiona Phillips

...Oxford, but she did not realise the ambition until last year, when she wrote the book in an intensive period of four months. Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall, is up for the novel award alongside Colm Toibin's Brooklyn,...

In this article: Siobhan Dowd, Ruth Padel, Family Album, Cancer, Charles Darwin, Clive Stafford Smith, Penelope Lively, and Aneurysm

Sir Andrew has just finished his term as Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion is to chair the judges for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction next year, it has been announced. The former Poet Laureate said it was an "exciting...

In this article: Royal Holloway College, Hilary Mantel, and London