BOOKER PRIZE
November 2015
When it comes the the novel, big isn't always beautiful
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November 2013
Perhaps the Booker judges awarded Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries the prize to ensure that their getting through all 836 exhausting pages of her frustrating novel wasn’t in vain
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November 2013
‘Why not televise a Plumbing Booker — recognising the rare tradesman who puts in shower stalls that don’t leak?’
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October 2010
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
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