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10 Reasons Why Hilary Mantel Might Be Right About Kate Middleton

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Elgot | Posted 20.02.2013 | UK
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Hilary Mantel's piece contains some harsh words about the Duchess of Cambridge, but lost in the media furore over phrases like "plastic princess" and ...

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Hilary Mantel Favourite To Win Costa Prize

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.03.2013 | Home
Read More: Bring Up the Bodies, Costa Book Awards, Books, Book Awards, Man Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize, Culture, Home News

Critics favourite Hilary Mantel is expected to pick up another prize tonight for her best-seller, 'Bring Up The Bodies', at the Costa Book Awards. ...

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Booker Shortlist Announced

Posted 11.09.2012 | Home
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The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2012 has been announced. The six novels in with a chance of winning this year's prize are: Tan Twan Eng - The G...

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Tony Parsons: Why I Write

Jason Holmes | Posted 20.10.2012 | Home
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"We all have multiple identities," says Tony Parsons when I ask him whether he feels more of an Englishman or a Londoner, "but I certainly feel like I'm both. But I also feel British.

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From Paper to Screen - the Story of the Adapted Screenplay

Preetam Kaushik | Posted 18.02.2013 | UK Entertainment
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What if the Lord of the Rings was never made into a trilogy? What if the Harry Potter series never saw a screen audience? If you are one of the many who consider these movies milestones in filmmaking, then you might also agree that these were great books too.

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Booker Prize 2012 Longlist Announced

The Huffington Post UK | Alice E. Vincent | Posted 31.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Rachel Joyce, Booker Prize 2012, Deborah Levy, Will Self, UK Books, Man Booker Prize, Michael Frayn, Slideexpand, Booker Prize, Booker Prize Longlist, Home News

The Man Booker Prize longlist for 2012 has been announced, and we're already excited. It's great to see some old favourites in there (hello, Will S...

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Man Booker Nominated Snowdrops: A.D. Miller's Debut Novel

Crane.tv | Posted 15.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle
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Miller claims that journalism and fiction are two different kinds of writing obviously, but the challenges remain pretty much the same for both disciplines. Adding that journalism is a very good training for writing fictions: according to him it makes a writer better and more efficient.

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Midnight Murakami

Lucy Scholes | Posted 21.12.2011 | UK Entertainment
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Tuesday was both Man Booker Prize day (read my account of the controversy, the Cape party and even a few words from Julian Barnes himself here) and the publication date of Books One and Two of Haruki Murakami's long awaited new novel, 1Q84.

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So Who's The Favourite To Win The Man Booker Prize?

PA | Posted 17.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Dame Stella Rimington, UK Books, Man Booker Prize, Julian Barnes, D. Miller, Stephen Kelman, Andrew Motion, Booker Prize, UK News

Julian Barnes is favourite to finally claim one of the literary world's most prestigious prizes when the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize is ann...

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