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Damian Lewis' Wolf Hall Breaks Tv Viewing Record
Damian Lewis is celebrating after his Tv adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall broke viewing records in the U.K.The six-part adaptation of two of Mantel's novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, starring Mark...
By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 08 March 2015
Bbc Adaption Of 'Wolf Hall': What We Know So Far
It may be nearly two years since BBC Two first announced that it would be adapting Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize historical novel Wolf Hall, but details about the series are only just beginning to...
By Sophie Miskiw in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10 May 2014
Decision To Include Us Books In Man Booker Prize Splits Critics
It has been announced that from next year the Man Booker Prize will be open to all authors across the English-speaking world, including America. Previously, the prestigious literary award only considered those within the British,...
By Lauren James in Books / Authors on 19 September 2013
Man Booker Prize To Include American Authors, But Will It Lose Its Identity?
In a move that could potentially see American literary heavyweights including Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo being honoured for their work in the UK, organizers of the Man Booker Prize - Britain's most...
By Michael West in Books / Authors on 16 September 2013
The Man Booker Prize Will Allow American Authors To Enter For The First Time In 2014
The Man Booker Prize has served as the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Commonwealth's most prestigious award for books and authors since it's inception in 1969. On Sunday, 15 September, The Sunday Times reported that...
By Joe Wilde in Books / Authors on 16 September 2013
Will It Be Third Time Lucky For Colm TóIbíN And The Man Booker Prize?
Colm Tóibín has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize for the third time, for his 2012 novel The Testament of Mary. The Irish writer was one of twelve authors on the long-list, which the...
By Michael West in Books / Authors on 23 July 2013
Maggie Gyllenhaal To Star In "Scintillating" Bbc Spy Thriller
After starring in the recent political thriller White House Down, Maggie Gyllenhaal will appear in the lead role in The Honorable Woman:a new BBC2 thriller that deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 35 year-old Gyllenhaal, who...
By Lauren James in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28 June 2013
Canadian Sheila Heti Up For Prestigious Women In Fiction Prize
One of the new names on the list of nominees for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize) is Canadian author Sheila Heti.Heti is up for the prestigious award with her...
By Victoria Pavlova in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 13 March 2013
Skyfall Caps Huge Year With South Bank Award
'Skyfall' won the film prize at the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts awards.The 23rd James Bond flick picked up the prestigious title at the ceremony in London's The Dorchester hotel on Tuesday (12.03.13), which was...
By Clive King on 13 March 2013
Why Has Kate Middleton Not Responded To Hilary Mantel 'Attack'?
Kate Middleton has not responded to the comments that Hilary Mantel made about her in a lecture, but the rest of the world has. Why has she remained silent? Many have expressed their opinions regarding...
By Lorna Greville in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 24 February 2013
A Week In News: Fans Mourn Mindy Mccready, Fergie Pregnant, Britney Has A New Man
Ten Thousand Angels: This week, we reported on the tragic news regarding country singer , who passed away at the age of just 39. Mindy will be remembered for her debut album - which was...
By Michael West on 20 February 2013
Wolf Hall Sales Sky-rocket For Hilary Mantel After Kate Middleton "Plastic Smile" Comments
When the double Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel delivered her hour-long essay on the way in which royal women are viewed, she most probably was not expecting the media furore that she sparked. Her...
By Hayley Avron in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 20 February 2013
Did Kate Middleton Need David Cameron To Defend Her Against Hilary Mantel's Remarks?
Hilary Mantel swiftly became the darling of the literary world late last year as she won her second Booker Prize with Bring Up the Bodies, the second in a historical trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and...
By Lorna Greville on 19 February 2013
Kate Middleton Attacked, But Is She Really A 'Plastic Princess'?
Kate Middleton has been verbally attack by the Booker Prize winning novelist Hilary Mantel, who described the Duchess of Cambridge as a "shop-window mannequin" with absolutely no personality, whose only purpose in life is to...
By Michael West in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 19 February 2013
Author Hilary Mantel On Duchess Kate Middleton: "Machine Made" And "So Different From Diana"
It's the fate of any member of the royal family to not only have their lives documented minutely, but also to be compared, ruthlessly, endlessly with everyone that has come precedes them. Hilary Mantel is...
By on 19 February 2013
Kate Middleton A Victim Of Mantel Abuse! Called A "Mannequin" By Booker Prize-winning Writer
Kate Middleton has come in for the leatheriest of shoe pie servings from double Booker Prize-winning writer Hilary Mantel, who claimed that the Duchess of Cambridge and current cultivator of the next royal baby was...
By Contributor in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18 February 2013
Hilary Mantel's Reign Continues, 'Bring Up The Bodies' Wins The Costa Book Award
Having won her second Booker Prize in autumn last year, and followed with the news last week that the RSC would be turning both 'Bring Up the Bodies' and 'Wolf Hall' into plays, Mantel is...
By Lorna Greville in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 29 January 2013
Royal Shakespeare Company Plan To Bring Hilary Mantels' Historical Novels To The Stage
Writer Hilary Mantel has been enjoying a continued fallout of success after her second novel in a planned trilogy of Tudor books, Bring Up the Bodies, won the Booker Prize - her second, the first...
By Lorna Greville in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23 January 2013
Graphic Novel Wins Best Biography Prize At Costa Awards 2012 While Female Authors Dominate
It was a celebration of forward thinking; the kind of thinking that should be widespread, but until recently, was in the minority. The Costa Awards 2012 awarded a graphic novel a top prize, while recognising...
By Jack de Aguilar in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 02 January 2013
Two Bookers And A Costa? Could Hilary Mantel Do The Literary Unthinkable?
Hilary Mantel has been shortlisted for best novel in the annual Costa Book Awards, capping an incredible year for the Glossop-born author who released her Booker winning tome Bring Up The Bodies in May. The...
By Michael West in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 21 November 2012
Man Booker Prize Judge: It Was Too Close To Call, But Mantel Wrote 'Best Book'
Man Booker Prize judge Amanda Foreman has written an article for The Telegraph, explaining how she and her fellow judges opted for Hilary Mantel as the winner of this year's award for her historical novel...
By Michael West in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18 October 2012
So, What's Next For Twice Man Booker Prize Winner Hilary Mantel?
Yesterday, Hilary Mantel made history two-fold: she became the first woman ever since its original conception, and first Brit ever, to win the Man Booker prize twice with her book 'Bring Up the Bodies', beating...
By Jack de Aguilar in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 17 October 2012
Man Booker Prize: At Least Two Judges 'Strongly Backed' Will Self For The Win
In the end, it was Hilary Mantel who made literary history on Tuesday evening (October 16, 2012), becoming the first ever British writer to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize twice. She won for her...
By Michael West on 17 October 2012
Man Booker Prize 2012: Historic Win For Hilary Mantel’S Bring Up The Bodies
Last night, Hilary Mantel made history when she became the first woman and also the first living British author to win the Man Booker Prize twice, BBC News reports. Not only that, but Mantel’s novel...
By Hayley Avron on 17 October 2012
Hilary Mantel Wins Booker Prize With 'Bring Up The Bodies'
Hilary Mantel has won the Booker 2012 with Bring Up The Bodies after weeks of fraught speculation and a neck and neck competition towards the prize between her and Will Self. Mantel instantly becomes a...
By Lorna Greville on 16 October 2012
Hilary Mantel Vs. Will Self: The Man Booker Battle
Hilary Mantel and Will Self are head to head in the Man Booker Prize with their novels 'Bring Up The Bodies' and 'Umberella', respectively. With odds now stacked very heavily in Mantel's favour, at 1/50,...
By Lorna Greville in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 16 October 2012
Giles Coren Bets £1000 On Will Self To Win The Booker Prize?
Journalist and television presenter Giles Coren is adamant that Will Self's avant-garde novel Umbrella will win the prestigious Booker Prize at tonight's ceremony in London. Though the prize is assumed to be a two-horse race,...
By Michael West on 16 October 2012
Man Booker Prize: Hilary Mantel Expected To Make History, Not Just Write About It
Hilary Mantel is battling Will Self as well as four other lesser known writers Jeet Thayil, Alison Moore, Twan Eng and Deborah Levy for the Man Booker Prize, but has this week become the bookies'...
By Michael West on 12 October 2012
Hilary Mantel Primed For Man Booker Prize?
As talk of the possible Man Booker prize-winner steps up, and possible suitors pass the lips of literature fans, Hilary Mantel is being mooted as a favourite to become not only the first woman to...
By Jack de Aguilar on 12 October 2012
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