Booker Prize

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• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

  
  S. Krishna's Books — Authority: 563
  Title: Never Let Me Go Author: Kazuo Ishiguro ISBN: 9781400078776 Pages: 304 Release Date: April 4, 2005 Publisher: Vintage Genre: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction Source: Personal Copy Rating: 4.75 out of 5 Summary: Never Let Me Go is a book that is very difficult ...
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• Tudor sex and beheadings made complicated

  
  The Hannibal Blog — Authority: 416
  Henry VIII I’m reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel right now. It’s a historical novel about the efforts by Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn to annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, so that he and Anne could marry instead and–so it was hoped–produce male heirs. The rest, ...
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• Podcast: Kiran Desai on The Inheritance of Loss

  
  Book Case — Authority: 117
  Podcast at the Guardian Book Club: John Mullan speaks to Kiran Desai about her writing process for her 2006 Booker Prize winning novel The Inheritance of Loss.Related posts:Podcast: Diana AthillBooker KingProfiling the Brits: Graham Swift and Ian McEwanInterview and Slideshow: Art SpiegelmanPodcast: Michael ...
  6 days ago

• Groans of boredom as Andrew Motion is chosen to chair the Man Booker Prize panel

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 590
  What are the Man Booker organisers thinking? News that they have appointed Andrew Motion the chairman of judges for next year’s competition is groan-inducing. As a poet he is usually dull, sometimes pretentious, often laugh-out-loud funny (in the wrong places) and we learned not a fortnight ago that he also seems to ...
  1 week ago

• Writing, reading, Margaret Atwood

  
  Daily (w)rite — Authority: 115
  Margaret Atwoods Blind Assassin Sometimes I write down an excerpt from a book I’m reading , and in reading Margaret Atwood ’s Blind Assassin , I feel like typing out the whole book on my blog. Of course, I can’t do that, so here’s a para I read last night: She did understand, or at last she understood ...
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• Booker club: The Bone People by Keri Hulme

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Keri Hulmes The Bone People deals with hefty issues surrounding Maori displacement. Shame it breaks down too easily into bad writing and spiritual nonsense The buzz when The Bone People won the Booker prize in 1986 was all about the struggle Keri Hulme had to bring it to publication. First there was the monumental ...
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• Andrew Motion

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Newly free from his duties as poet laureate, the poet will lead deliberations to find 2010s best novel Former poet laureate Andrew Motion will chair the judging panel for next years Man Booker prize, following an eclectic roster of former chairs including Michael Portillo, PD James and Douglas Hurd. Philip Larkin, ...
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• Wolf Hall: A Booker winner for story lovers

  
  Looking for Words — Authority: 135
  Hilary Mantel There’s nothing arty farty about Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. The 2009 Booker Prize winner is solid entertainment for anyone who loves a good story. Set in the reign of Henry VIII, it charts the rise of Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith’s son who becomes the king’s most trusted adviser and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wolf Hall: A Booker winner for story lovers

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 475
    Theres nothing arty farty about Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall. The 2009 Booker Prize winner is solid entertainment for anyone who loves a good story. Set in the reign of Henry VIII, it charts the rise of Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmiths son who becomes the kings most trusted adviser and the most powerful man in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Remains of the Day.

  
  The dish — Authority: 413
  I’ll be on ESPNEWS on Monday afternoon right after the Rookies of the Year are announced at 2 pm EST, and then again at 2:40 pm to talk more about those winners and the awards to come over the next week-plus. I’ve got a short take on Dan Uggla on Rumor Central. I’m doing a daily wrap-up/links column each ...
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• Jane Rosenthal Reviews Summertime by JM Coetzee

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 432
  Verdict: carrot While some are tired of Coetzee’s narrative games, Rosenthal applauds Summertime for being “thought-provoking and clever”: From Boyhood and Youth to Summertime seems a strange way to conjugate successive titles, but it does adroitly avoid any mention of manhood or adulthood. And it does ...
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• Guardian book club: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  Told with palpable anger and scant sympathy for its characters, this is a powerful novel but I confess that I struggled to really appreciate it When Kiran Desais Inheritance Of Loss won the 2006 Booker Prize, a few eyebrows were raised. Although she had a famous mother (Anita Desai) who had herself been on the Booker ...
  3 weeks ago

• Publishers Weekly 2009 Top 100

  
  What Kate's Reading — Authority: 402
  PW posted their top 100 books of 2009, including a top ten that, the Green Lantern Press noted, included no women. Outside of the fact that thats pretty damn astounding and very, very old school of them (complete with dark panelling, great halls in schools, and wear-your-tie-to-class ethos), I cant comment too much ...
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• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

  
  Keying-in-Experiences — Authority: 110
  After reading a few pages, it looked as though Aravind Adiga had a list of dark issues about India that he wanted to bring to light. So, he has weaved an excellent story that encompasses all issues. The novel is about a smart villager (White Tiger) who moves to city to become a smart entrepreneur. Adiga’s ...
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• Pi author’s next novel to deal with Holocaust

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 01 (ANI): Life of Pi author Yann Martel’s next novel ‘Beatrice And Virgil’ will be about Holocaust, in which readers will once again find him focussing on animals.The story revolves around Henry who undertakes an epic journey with a donkey and a howler monkey, named Beatrice and Virgil ...
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• Aravind Adiga’s second novel to be out in 2011

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) After winning the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, “The White Tiger”, Indian-born author Aravind Adiga will publish his second venture “Last Man in the Tower” in early 2011, the author’s publisher said Thursday.The Indian rights for Adiga’s new novel have been acquired by ...
  4 weeks ago

• The unknown Booker prize

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  If you thought it was over-exposed, think again The Booker prize shortlist was announced this month, but you probably wont have read about it. According to one of the judges, the novels in contention all have a historical theme. There was a surprise omission of an award-winning longlisted writer. The reason for the ...
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• Heavyweights vie for book prize

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Heavyweights vie for book prize -1.0 5 2009-10-26 14:04:00 1stAngel Award-winning novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Aravind Adiga will go head-to-head for this year’s John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize. Adichie’s short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck is her first work since winning ...
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• ‘What Muslims were to BJP, Naxals are to Cong’

  
  churumuri — Authority: 430
  Booker Prize wining author and activist Arundhati Roy in an interview with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN (to be aired at 8.30 pm tonight, IST) suggests that the “ gravest threat to internal security ” is a bogey. The reason the Manmohan Singh government has zeroed in on Maoists is big business. ...
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