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Hilary Mantel has become the third author to win the Man Booker Prize twice. She was yesterday announced as the winner of the 2012 award for her novel Bring Up the Bodies, beating 145 entrants in this year’s award. The novel is a sequel to her 2009 Booker Prize prize winning book, Wolf Hall. Peter Carey and J M Coetzee [...]

Villains are so much more engaging when they have a heart, dontchathink? I have been ashamed for too long – Wolf Hall has had pride of place on my bookshelf for months now, and I’ve barely poked it. I only wish I had got to it sooner, because once I picked it up I could [...]

Sigh. Being part of the blogging community, particularly being part of the book blogging community, is a fun, informative, and – if you want it to be – a largely collaborative experience. If you’re a social internet creature with a book fetish, there is a whole plethora of groups you can join to help hone [...]

Until recently, book size wasn’t something that I noticed. If I wanted to read it, I wanted to read it. And very often the larger the book the better. After all, there’s nothing worse than finishing a good book too quickly and then finding yourself in the post-good book void. But it’s in finding myself [...]

Dear Readers: I have a confession to make. It is a confession that is so monstrous, so remarkably horrid, that your view of me will forever be marred. *Takes deep breath* I have never read The Lord of the Rings trilogy. [I know what you’re thinking: “and here she is, this imposter, purporting to be [...]

The sign of a *really* good book at my place is insects squashed between the pages, and other pages stained with food and drink spills, all because I couldn’t bear to stop reading. This is what Wolf Hall was like for me – a story of the broadest magnitude, grabbing a well-known tale and remaking [...]