Wolf Hall

Got A Kindle For Christmas? HuffPost Editors' Download Picks (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.25.2009 | Books


Looking for books to download onto that brand new eReader? So were we. Here's what Huffington Post editors (and one blogger) picked to read first. ...

Best Of The Best Books Lists (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.24.2009 | Books


Best books, best of the year, best fiction, so many prizes. Who can keep track? We did. We culled them all, prize winners and best of lists from aroun...

Why We Can't Get Enough of the Tudors

S.J. Parris | Posted 12.15.2009 | Books


S.J. Parris

Why are we compelled to go on retelling the story of this troubled royal dynasty who lived and loved and fought and shagged and chopped off heads half a millennium ago?

Books That Authors Want For Christmas

Seattle Times | Mary Ann Gwinn | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books


For a book-glutted person to ask for a book -- it has to be a pretty good book. So I asked some local bibliophiles what book they are wishing for duri...

The New Yorker's Best Books Of The Year

The New Yorker | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books


Reviewers' favorites from 2009....

The New York Times' Best Books Of 2009

The New York Times | The New York Times Book Review | Posted 11.26.2009 | Books


The Book Review has made these selections from books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published our previous Notables list. It was not easy pickin...

Big News: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books


We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...

The Man Behind the Man Booker Winner

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


Amy Hertz

In all of publishing and probably much of the world, there's just nobody else like Jack Macrae, the American publisher of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which just won the Booker.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


LONDON — A tale of political intrigue set during the reign of King Henry VIII won the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction Tuesday. Hilary ...

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

The Man Booker Prize | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


Set in England in the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the...

Hilary Mantel Wins Booker Prize

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


It's official: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (John Macrae Books, Henry Holt & Co.) is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2009. Yes, this is a time fo...

Booker Shortlist 2009: Byatt, Coetzee Are Back

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media


LONDON — Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee are among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize. ...