Vintage year for Booker ... but no McEwan
What is agreed to be one of the vintage years in the Man Booker prize's 36-year history also turned into one of its most unpredicted upsets yesterday.Ian McEwan's Iraq war novel, Saturday, in many eyes...
View ArticleShortlisted Zadie Smith vents spleen over 'aspirational' England
The following statement from Zadie Smith was issued by Penguin Books on September 9 2005: "I have lived in England my entire life and have an enormous love of the place, a fact that is obvious to...
View ArticleSix likely stories
Stephanie Merritt surveys the Booker Prize candidatesArthur and Georgeby Julian BarnesJonathan Cape £17.99Barnes's 10th novel recreates the lives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George Edalji, the son of...
View ArticleThe World of Books: Sep 10
Almost everyone agrees that 2005 has been a vintage year for new fiction. Once again, the death of the novel, so long predicted, has been postponed.Five experts, who are better placed than most to make...
View ArticleWin a library of Booker greats
This competition has been extended due to some entrants experiencing difficulties submitting their entries. The closing date is now midday on Wednesday 12 October. Please send your entries to...
View ArticleInterview: Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry's novels and plays have drawn on his family's past and on the complexities of Irish history. His latest work has earned him a place on the Booker shortlistIf Sebastian Barry's parents...
View ArticleThe Booker secrets that can finally be told
The spin doctor behind Britain's most prestigious literary award is about to spill the beans. David Smith reportsGossip, innuendo and scandal, served discreetly to ravenous newspapers, have been his...
View ArticleThe publishing industry
Tonight, the winner of the Man Booker prize will be announced. But aside from the glory, how will sales of the winning book be affected? Who buys the 161,000 titles published in Britain each year? And...
View ArticleMan Booker awarded to literary tale of grief and memory
The judges of this year's Booker prize - the most significant award on the UK's literary calendar - tonight confounded the bookies by bestowing the £50,000 award on outsider John Banville. Banville...
View ArticleIrish stylist springs Booker surprise
· John Banville's novel The Sea takes £50,000 prize· Casting vote of chairman seals win for outsiderThe veteran Irish stylist John Banville brought off one of the biggest literary coups last night when...
View ArticleWorthy but forgettable
You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled wilful and...
View ArticleJohn Sutherland: The judge's tale
'As chair of the committee I felt like Evel Knievel preparing to jump over the Grand Canyon'What, one wondered, would the epithet be? "Controversial"? "Safe"? "Eccentric"? "Grotesque"? In the event the...
View ArticleJohn Banville tells Emma Brockes why his novel is a 'real book'
He's regarded as a 'difficult' author whose work is unknown beyond a few thousand enthusiasts, but John Banville defied the bookies to collect fiction's biggest prize. He tells Emma Brockes why his...
View ArticleThe Booker that shoulda: the winners
We asked you to stand up for the books from the Booker shortlists of the past 10 years that you feel were robbed of the prize by the chosen winner. It was a topic which clearly roused passions, and...
View ArticleHenry McDonald: This false martyrdom
It's time we stopped bleating about being downtroddenThe Irish conceit - the belief that 'we' are the most special, gifted, talented, put-down and oppressed people to walk upright on this planet - was...
View ArticleVintage year for Booker ... but no McEwan
What is agreed to be one of the vintage years in the Man Booker prize's 36-year history also turned into one of its most unpredicted upsets yesterday.Ian McEwan's Iraq war novel, Saturday, in many eyes...
View ArticleShortlisted Zadie Smith vents spleen over 'aspirational' England
The following statement from Zadie Smith was issued by Penguin Books on September 9 2005: "I have lived in England my entire life and have an enormous love of the place, a fact that is obvious to...
View ArticleSix likely stories
Stephanie Merritt surveys the Booker Prize candidatesArthur and Georgeby Julian BarnesJonathan Cape £17.99Barnes's 10th novel recreates the lives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George Edalji, the son of...
View ArticleThe World of Books: Sep 10
Almost everyone agrees that 2005 has been a vintage year for new fiction. Once again, the death of the novel, so long predicted, has been postponed.Five experts, who are better placed than most to make...
View ArticleWin a library of Booker greats
This competition has been extended due to some entrants experiencing difficulties submitting their entries. The closing date is now midday on Wednesday 12 October. Please send your entries to...
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