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Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012

We are proud and thrilled to announce that Hilary Mantel’s ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ has been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Mantel won the prize in 2009 for the first in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, ‘Wolf Hall’, with … Continue reading

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‘It asks you to do a lot of the work of imagining and storytelling’- Sam Thompson writes about Communion Town

I’m dumbstruck by the news that Communion Town has been longlisted for the Man Booker prize. What can you say about such an improbable stroke of good fortune for a first novel, other than repeating words like ‘thrilled’, ‘incredulous’, ‘bamboozled’ … Continue reading