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23 Oct 2015
Why Marlon James is not miserable now
You might think, given that A Brief History of Seven Killings is based around an assassination attempt on Bob Marley, that the musical tastes of the Man Booker 2015 winner Marlon James would tend towards the reggae end of the spectrum.
13 Oct 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
First there were 156 novels and then 13, then six and now, at last, just the one - Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings.
13 Oct 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings wins 2015 Man Booker Prize
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is tonight, Tuesday 13 October, named as the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
09 Oct 2015
Who to put your shirt on
So, with only a matter of days until the unveiling of the Man Booker Prize winner of 2015 on 13 October, who, according to the bookies at least, is the front runner? As things stand Hanya Yanagihara is favourite, with the best odds being offered on A Little Life being 6/4, then come Sunjeev Sahota (9/2), Marlon James (6/1), Chigozie Obioma (10/1), Anne Tyler (12/1), Tom McCarthy (20/1).
02 Oct 2015
What links Ion Trewin, the Man Booker and the Great British Bake Off?
A memorial service was held this week at St Martin-in-the-Fields for Ion Trewin, the much loved editor, biographer and Literary Director of the Booker Prize Foundation, who died earlier this year. It was a joyous affair, despite the sadness, with a remarkable array of speakers remembering Ion as they knew him.
25 Sep 2015
Sherlock Holmes and Sunjeev Sahota
Man Booker aficionados might remember that last year's winner, Richard Flanagan, was predicted ahead of time by a ‘Mr Smith’, a mystery punter from the north east who claimed not to have read any of the shortlisted books but made his choice on the basis of scouring reviews and examining the judges' Wikipedia pages.
Fiction at its finest
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