In the last QT before Christmas, we spare a thought for Justine Greening, sandwiched between two of the most antagonistic gum-flappers this country has ever produced
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JK Rowling fails to make Bad Sex 2012 shortlist
Tuesday 20 November 2012
...but previous winner Tom Wolfe is nominated once again
The Cromwell steamroller triumphs
Wednesday 17 October 2012
"There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings." So (almost) ends Bring Up the Bodies: a final flourish that now applies to their creator too.
Hilary Mantel's sequel survives as big names miss out on Booker Prize
Thursday 26 July 2012
Four first-time novelists are in the running for the prestigious £50,000 literary award
Hilary Mantel on Booker Prize longlist following success of Wolf Hall
Wednesday 25 July 2012
Past winner Hilary Mantel and three former shortlisted authors found themselves among the 12 writers on the Man Booker Prize longlist today.
China calls Tibetan immolators criminals
Wednesday 07 March 2012
Chinese officials sought today to discredit Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest China's rule over their region, calling them outcasts, criminals and mentally ill people manipulated by the exiled Dalai Lama.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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