The winner of this year's Man Booker Prize was announced yesterday. It is Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. It's a novel based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister from 1532 to 1540. Cromwell was a strong promoter of Henry's divorce from his first wife and the subsequent break with the Catholic … Continue reading History… It’s Coming

The UK's Telegraph newspaper heaps some derision on Dan Brown in their article The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown: 50 factual errors. For example: "Brown claims the Washington Monument is the highest point in the city. This is false: the tower of the National Cathedral is the highest point. The … Continue reading Truthiness

It begins: The shortlist of nominees for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have been announced. It won't add much to your reading list--only one of the books is available in the States right now.The shortlisted titles are:The Children's Book by A S Byatt (Available in the US October 6)Summertime by J M Coetzee … Continue reading Man Booker Shortlist Announced