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BookScan analyses 'the Booker Bump'
Nielsen BookScan has released a report studying the effects of the 'Booker bump' in the UK. Julian Barnes saw a 473 percent increase in sales the week after he won the prize for The Sense of an Ending...
new literature prize to 'establish standard of excellence'
Countering suggestions that this year's Booker was too popularist, a group of agents and authors is proposing a new literature prize that will offer readers 'a selection of novels that, in the view of...
Richard & Judy better known than Nobel or Booker
UK daytime TV hosts Richard & Judy -- who used to host a very successful TV book club -- are better known to Britons than either the Booker or Nobel prizes.
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White, Hazzard make ‘Lost' Booker shortlistVivisector by Patrick White and The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard are among the titles shortlisted for the ‘Lost' Man Booker Prize, a one-off aw...
Callil, Cartwright and Gekoski to judge Man Booker International
Publisher, writer and critic Carmen Callil and novelist Justin Cartwright will judge next year's Man Booker International Prize. The panel will be chaired by writer, academic and rare book dealer Dr...
White, Hazzard in running for 'Lost' Man Booker Prize
Novels by Australian authors Patrick White and Shirley Hazzard are among those in the running for a new Man Booker Prize. The Lost Man Booker Prize, announced on 1 February, is a one-off prize to...
Sci-fi author hits out at Booker judges
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson has criticised the Booker Prize judges, accusing them of "ignorance" in neglecting science fiction, which he called "the best British literature of ou...
Booker chair slams 'sloppy editing'
The chair of the judging panel for the Man Booker prize has heralded 2009 as a "vintage" year, despite criticising a number of submissions for their "sloppy editing". James Naughti...
'Curious Incident' tops Booker-winning sales in UK
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Vintage) has sold more than 2 million copies in the UK since publication, topping a BookScan list of Booker-nominated titles....
Coetzee shortlisted for third Booker
Summertime by Australian author J M Coetzee (Knopf) has been shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The full shortlist is: The Children's Book (A S Byatt, Chatto & Windu...
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