Favourite makes Booker shortlist
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Six authors are shortlisted for the Booker prize, including  favourite David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas.
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LONDON: British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the Â£50,000 ($124,000) Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, a satire on Thatcherism that is full of explicit gay sex and drug abuse.
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Life & style: To celebrate the Guardian's photography week, Sam Taylor-Wood selects her all-time favourites.
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Travel: Joshua Stein chooses his favourite New York hotels, which are as varied as its citizens.
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Arts & entertainment: To her fans, Michelle Paver is the next JK Rowling. Stephen Moss meets her.
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The winner of this yearâs Man Booker Prize spoke of his joy at scooping the prestigious Â£50,000 (â¬72,100) award. Alan Hollinghurstâs novel The Line of Beauty, about Thatcherism and gay sex, beat David
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Consecutive nominations a first for Sheffield band  Â· Amy Winehouse is joint favourite on 12-strong list
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Jane Austen's &quot;Pride And Prejudice&quot; topped a poll of Britons' 100 favourite books released Thursday, indicating that classic novels are still most people's idea of a good read ahead of modern offerings.
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Welsh novelist Sarah Waters is one of six writers shortlisted for this year's Â£50,000 Man Booker Prize.
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Comedian AL Kennedy is favourite to win the Costa Book of the Year Award, formerly the Whitbread Prize.
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The Aviator is tipped by bookmakers as the favourite to win the best film award at this year's Oscars.
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1. "The Quickie" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown and Company)
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the  Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary  awards, on Tuesday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in  Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.
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By Sophie Morris  Last week I listened to...   I first heard of Salman Rushdie's knighthood on Radio 4, and in the same bulletin I discovered that Agent Provocateur had also been given an MBE, so it was a funny crossover list of Rushdie to lingerie.
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Former politician Michael Portillo is to chair next year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction judging panel.
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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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Author secures place on shortlist with On Chesil Beach.