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After a small falling-out with DHL I’ve finally taken delivery of my bargainous Booker Shortlist parcel from The Book People. The joy of having snagged all six hardbacks for £35 is enough to soothe the after effects of trying to find out whether the box was in the depot or on the van or arriving [...]
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October 15, 2009 in fiction, prizes Tagged booker prize, books, fiction, giveaway, j.m. coetzee, sarah waters
Reaction to Hilary Mantel winning the Booker:
Video of Mantel talking about Wolf Hall
Did the right woman win?
Rescusing the Tudor court from cliche
“I have no inclination to read a book set in Tudor England.”
Today is National Poetry Day:
TS Eliot is the Nation’s Favourite Poet, apparently. I can assure you he isn’t mine.
The blog of a Forward [...]
October 8, 2009 in fiction, news & media, poetry, prizes
Tagged booker prize, books, don paterson, forward poetry prize, herta muller, hilary mantel, nobel prize for literature
Tagged booker prize, books, don paterson, forward poetry prize, herta muller, hilary mantel, nobel prize for literature
Congratulations to Hilary Mantel and her novel Wolf Hall, which scooped the Booker gong last night. Despite not having read this yet, I really am delighted that she won. I’m really looking forward to reading this: historical fiction is very much up my street, and I’ve only been encouraged by all the reviews I’ve read.
Also, [...]
This book was always going to have a mountain of expectation heaped upon it. Quite aside from her status in the literary world, I adored her first four novels. I first discovered her when she was shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize for Fingersmith, and since I worked in a bookshop at the time, I [...]
October 5, 2009 in fiction, prizes, review
Tagged booker prize, books, fiction, sarah waters, the little stranger, virago
Tagged booker prize, books, fiction, sarah waters, the little stranger, virago
As you may or may not know, as part of my day job I contribute posts to OUPblog, and if you haven’t already got that on your RSS readers, then I demand to know why not.
ANYWAY, today’s post is a bit of a favourite of mine, so I thought I would mention it here as [...]
October 1, 2009 in blogs, fiction, prizes
Tagged adam foulds, adam roberts, booker prize, fiction, oupblog, the quickening maze
Tagged adam foulds, adam roberts, booker prize, fiction, oupblog, the quickening maze
Now, the thing is, while I’ve not been able to read as much during the last months of the MA, I’ve still been accumulating books at the same ridiculous rate. Here’s a selection of my most recent purchases/review copies:
The Dead Man’s Message – Florence Marryat
This is the first book from Catherine’s new publishing empire, Victorian [...]
September 30, 2009 in auto/biography, fiction
Tagged booker, booker prize, books, eleanor marx, emily perkins, florence marryat, pj parrish, victorian
Tagged booker, booker prize, books, eleanor marx, emily perkins, florence marryat, pj parrish, victorian
Drumroll please… here’s the official shortlist for the Booker Prize 2009.
The Children’s Book – AS Byatt
Summertime – JM Coetzee
The Quickening Maze – Adam Foulds
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
Chair James Naughtie, comments:
“We’re thrilled to be able to announce such a strong shortlist, so enticing that it [...]
September 8, 2009 in fiction, news & media, prizes
Tagged as byatt, booker prize, coetzee, fiction, hilary mantel, sarah waters
Tagged as byatt, booker prize, coetzee, fiction, hilary mantel, sarah waters
I’ve given up apologising for the lack of content. You all know the score. Full time work. Dissertation. Due end of September. Blah blah. But I did want to tell you about the latest literary arrivals in Other Stories Mansions.
I spent most of last week at the Edinburgh Book Festival, which is always a treat, [...]
August 24, 2009 in fiction, places, prizes
Tagged autobiography, booker prize, books, edinburgh book festival, fiction, james tait black prize
Tagged autobiography, booker prize, books, edinburgh book festival, fiction, james tait black prize
Cathy Warwick, General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, says ‘Don’t tell women how to give birth.’
A Sudanese women faces 40 lashes. For wearing trousers.
In happier news, a 91 year old Scottish woman has borrowed nearly 25,000 books from her local library over 63 years… and never had an overdue fine. She might [...]
July 29, 2009 in feminism, news & media
Tagged booker prize, books, feminism, link love, mommy bloggers
Tagged booker prize, books, feminism, link love, mommy bloggers
Argh! My blogging is appalling at the moment, for which I apologise. It’s the usual thing: full time job + final throes of part time MA = not much time for blogging. You can expect patchy blogging at best until the end of September. Yes, September 30th is what I am calling D-Day: the day [...]
Not the TV Book Group
Sun 07 Feb: Brodeck's Report - Philippe Claudel
Sun 21 Feb: The Girl with the Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
Sun 07 Mar: Vanessa and Virginia - Susan Sellers
Sun 21 Mar: The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston
Sun 11 Apr: Skin Lane - Neil Bartlett
Sun 25 Apr: The Boys in the Trees - Mary Swan
Sun 09 May: A Short Gentleman - Jon Canter
Sun 23 May: Fledgling - Octavia E. ButlerReading Challenge
The Equality Illusion - Kat Banyard
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist - Jill Tweedie
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Singled Out - Virginia Nicholson
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education - Jane Robinson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
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