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Jim Crace: 'At the Watford Gap it hit me that the English landscape was...
The author of Harvest talks to Nicholas Wroe about socialism, farming and the pressure of a Booker nominationThe sources of inspiration behind Jim Crace's novels are often far removed from the final...
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Jim Crace is Booker favourite as judges prepare to unveil shortlist
Bookmakers refine their offers and speculation mounts before list of authors in contention for Booker prize is cut from 13 to sixWith less than a week to go until the Man Booker Prize shortlist 2013 is...
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Four women and two men from six different countries appear on what is being billed as the most diverse shortlist in the history of the Booker prize
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Man Booker 2013: Why this is the best shortlist in a decade
Neither the diverse nationalities of its authors, nor the settings of their novels, can account for the sheer intensity of feeling and intelligence of ideas in this year's lineupFor some, the shortlist...
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Highbrow betting: gambling on cultural events is on the up
Will you be taking a flutter on the Man Booker? Or the Mercury music prize? Bookmakers are reporting a rise in 'highbrow' betting, especially onlineThis week, Ladbrokes bookmakers announced an increase...
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This glorious and unruly English language that lets everyone in | Fintan O'Toole
The multinational Man Booker shortlist shows 'outsiders' are the new normal. Let's celebrate our unruly tongueWhat did the English ever do for us? Unlike the Romans in The Life of Brian, not much in...
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Reader reviews roundup
Booker contenders from Jhumpa Lahiri and Jim Crace and a two-hander from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman are among the novels under review this weekWith a fortnight to go until the Man Booker prize,...
View ArticleBooker prize 2013: why Jim Crace's Harvest should win - video
Nicholas Wroe argues that Jim Crace's novel about the forced enclosure of land from the medieval era should win this year's awardNicholas Wroe
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Bookies back Crace in the buildup to the Booker
The bookies are agreed that Jim Crace may well win the Man Booker prize. But, strangely, favourites don't have a great record for actually winning...The bookies are agreed that Jim Crace, who has said...
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The finalists for the 2013 award may have won high praise, but sales are down 30% on last yearIt's been critically acclaimed as "the best in a decade", but sales of this year's Man Booker shortlist,...
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Man Booker contenders 2013 – a quick recap
Jim Crace is the narrow favourite, while Colm Tóibín may provoke the most serious soul-searching… Here's a reminder of the six novels in contentionVideo: Who should win the Booker - watch our hustings...
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Eimear McBride wins £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for literature
Author's novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing was rejected by publishers nine years ago as too experimentalIrish-British writer Eimear McBride has won the inaugural £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for her...
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Writers and critics on the best books of 2013
Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this yearChimamanda Ngozi AdichieFive...
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The Observer's books of the year
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their...
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The best fiction of 2013
There were mighty tomes from Donna Tartt and Eleanor Catton, pastiches for lovers of Bond and Wodehouse, and a final novel from Iain Banks. We look back at the year's big hitters• The best science...
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Anne Olivier Bell: The last of the 'Monuments Men'
After the second world war, a team of art experts tried to rescue the thousands of artworks stolen by the Nazis. Now Anne Olivier Bell, the last of the 'Monuments Men', is to be the subject of a George...
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Writers and critics on the best books of 2013
Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this yearChimamanda Ngozi AdichieFive...
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Independents' view of 2013's best books
Indie bookshops from all over the UK use their expertise and 'handsellers'' passion to choose their books of the yearKirkdale Bookshop, LondonDaily Rituals by Mason Currey has proved very popular with...
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Readers' books of the year 2013: part 1
From Sebastian Faulks's Jeeves and the Wedding Bells to Patrick Ness's More Than This to Alan Johnson's This Boy, Guardian readers pick their favourite reads of 2013Chris Allen, Buckingham Burial Rites...
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Harvest by Jim Crace – review
A village's age-old way of life is threatened in Jim Crace's powerful novelIf there's a theme that unifies many of Crace's books, it is an epic one: the slipping of one age to the next. In Gift of...
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