Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - British author Hilary Mantel, who won the coveted Booker Prize for "Wolf Hall" set in the 16th century royal court of Henry VIII, is in the running for the Costa Book Awards after nominees were announced on Tuesday.
And Another Thing (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
... sooner or later the temptation to flex its muscles is going to be irresistible. Before I bought Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" recently (list price of £25) I checked the discount prices at Borders and Waterstones before getting it from Amazon for £8.99 with no delivery charge. It takes a lot of coffee aroma to compete with that. The result of all this price competition...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Christopher Nicholson's The Elephant Keeper goes up against Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín and Penelope Lively in shortlist for £5,000 award A touching story of an 18th-century boy's love affair with an elephant, which has so far attracted little critical attention, has this evening found itself pitted against three literary heavyweights for one of the UK's leading book...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The shortlists for the various categories of the Costa Prize have been announced, and here's the full list : Costa First Novel Award The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath John the Revelator by Peter Murphy Beauty by Raphael Selbourne The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw Costa Novel Award Family Album by Penelope Lively Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel The Elephant Keeper by Christopher...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Novelist Hilary Mantel makes the shortlist for the Costa Book Awards with her Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall.
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... one year. Announced live tonight on BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme, this year's lists include Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín, Clive James, William Fiennes and Penelope Lively. Full details here
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Costa Awards are given annually to authors based in the United Kingdom and Ireland for what the jury deems the "most enjoyable books of the year." On November 24, shortlists for the 2009 awards were announced. Novel award finalists include Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel, Penelope Lively, Colm Tóibín, and the lesser-known author Chistopher Nicholson.
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wolf Hall shortlisted for Costa Novel AwardsMan Booker winner in running for book award25 November 2009Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, has been shortlisted for this year's Costa Novel Awards.Wolf Hall is shortlisted alongside Penelope Lively, Colm Tóib?n and Christopher Nicolson. The awards recognise the "most enjoyable books" published in the last...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... the blatantly sexist list, which failed to recognize award-winning books like Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, which was the recipient of this years Man Booker Prize, throngs of She Writers, led by the Founder and CEO of She Writes, Kamy Wicoff, participated in a coordinated Day of Action on Friday the 13th that called for members to flex their She-Muscles in three ways: by blogging it...
The Little Professor (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
I'm in Southern CA for Thanksgiving. It's a bit...ah... warmer than upstate NY. This will provide me with an excellent opportunity to engage in what my family dubs "weather sadism" ("Did I mention that it was ninety degrees on Thanksgiving Day?"). In other news, a cross-country plane flight provided a convenient opportunity for reading Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall , about which I'll have...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Top Story » Tóibín and Murphy on Costa book shortlistsPAMELA DUNCANIRISH AUTHORS Colm Tóibín and Peter Murphy have been shortlisted for a Costa Book Award.Tóibín’s sixth novel, Brooklyn , is featured on the 2009 shortlist for the Costa Novel Award, formerly the Whitbread Awards.The author will compete against 2009 Booker winner Hilary Mantel, whose novel Wolf Hall is shortlisted in the...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Tóibín ’s sixth novel, Brooklyn, is featured on the 2009 shortlist for the Costa Novel Award, formerly the Whitbread Awards. The author, who missed out on this year’s shortlist for the Man Booker Prize, will compete against the eventual winner of that award, Hilary Mantel whose novel Wolf Hall is shortlisted in the same category alongside Penelope Lively for Family Album and Christopher...
Quotidian Grace (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize (the UK's top literary award) for achievement in fiction this year. Since it is a historical novel about my favorite period of English history (the Tudors), I snapped it right up. The story centers on Thomas Cromwell, a commoner who rose from very humble beginnings to become a lawyer, secretary to Cardinal Wolsey and ultimately was named...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... individual book but there are certain writers whose oeuvre I really envy. Margaret Atwood is one, Hilary Mantel (this year’s Man Booker winner) is another. ‘Wolf Hall’ is a masterpiece. If I could die knowing I had written something that good, I would be happy. If I don’t get to write a sprawling masterpiece that, I would like to achieve something small and...
::Acquired Taste (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Problem with Wolf Hall I mentioned last week that Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall had polarised opinion among my writing acquaintance. Ever the temperate figure, I can see both sides of this. In the end, my reaction was one of disappointment, not because the book was bad, but because it was so nearly good. Inevitably, this is a subjective view: many good judges--and not just the Booker...
