Tag: Man Booker Prize

• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

  My Name is Lucy Barton has been included on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize 2016, and so understandably it’s quite popular at the moment generating a bit of hype. Almost every review I have read (both in newspapers/magazines and online) has been favourable, mentioning the beauty of the writing and the emotional depth […]

  Lizzi

  September 1, 2016

  Fiction, Reviews

  2016, Elizabeth Strout, Fiction, Hardback, Man Booker Prize, My Name is Lucy Barton, Penguin, Viking

• Review: Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (Man Booker Prize 2013 Longlist)

  Almost English came to me by chance, and I was instantly taken with its cover (they are so, so important, aren’t they?). It is not only striking but carefully designed, and modern too. ‘Modern’ – what I mean by that really is that it does not look like a lot of other book covers knocking […]

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  July 23, 2013

  Fiction, Reviews

  2013, Charlotte Mendelson, Fiction, Man Booker Prize, Mantle, Pan Macmillan

• The Man Booker Prize Longlist 2013 Is Announced!

  Literary prizes are always fun: plenty of speculation and eager guesses, plus loads of reviews and recommendations to savour. There are also the bloggers who try to read whole longlists and shortlists, whom I really admire because I could never take on that amount of reading with a deadline! And the nominated books are always […]

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  July 23, 2013

  Articles, Events

  2013, Fiction, Literary Prizes, Man Booker Prize

• Best of 2012: Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel – Guest Post by Peggy Riley

  This post has kindly been written by author and playwright Peggy Riley. Peggy’s debut novel Amity and Sorrow will be published in March 2013 by Tinder Press, a new imprint of Headline. Here Peggy talks about her pick for 2012, Booker Prize winning Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel. * My book of the […]

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  December 13, 2012

  Fiction, Guest Posts, Reviews

  Best of 2012, Fiction, Fourth Estate, Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize, Peggy Riley