You don’t need me to tell you that Wolf Hall, by British novelist Hilary Mantel, is good. It won the 2009 Man Booker prize, and was also shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel award and 2010 Orange Prize for fiction. That sort of success speaks for itself. Clearly, the novel is good. What I can [...]
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Book sales BOOOOOMED in 2009. Some suggest this was caused by the Global Financial Crisis which sent us scurrying off to the safety of our beds and the reliability of a good book. Others suggest that in the face of our present technology overload – the three remotes needed to turn on a TV, the [...]
Filed under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Fiction, Crime/Thriller, Fantasy, Fiction, Literary Prizes, Literature, Non Fiction, Romance, Young Adult | Tagged: Alex Miller, Hilary Mantel, Michael Connelly, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Under the Dome, Wolf Hall | Leave a Comment »
The 2009 Man Booker Prize short list – there is thundering narrative, great inventiveness, poetry and sharp human insight in abundance.
Filed under: Fiction, Literary Prizes | Tagged: Adam Foulds, Byatt, Coetzee, Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters, Simon Mawer, Summerland, The Children's Book, The Glass Room, The Little Stranger, The Quickening Maze, Wolf Hall | Leave a Comment »
