Booker prize for Hilary Mantel: did the right woman win?
Hilary Mantel has won this year's Man Booker prize with her fictionalised life of Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall. I'm delighted - are you?
Not the Booker prize: the winner and the future
It has been a long and windy road but we can now announce the winner of the inaugural Not the Booker prize - and the start of a debate about next year's competition
Not the Booker prize: vote for the winner
Which of our six finalists will win the prestigious Not the Booker prize and take home the coveted Guardian mug? You decide
The power of the past: how historical fiction has regained its gravitas
The abundance of historical fiction on the Booker prize shortlist can be traced back to Walter Scott's 1814 novel Waverley
Why hasn’t there been a science fiction Booker winner?
Adam Roberts: The literary establishment don't seem willing or able to recognise that British science fiction is going through a golden age
From the Booker to the BBC: why our culture is escaping into the past
Historical novels dominate the Booker prize shortlist, old buildings are back in vogue and you simply can't avoid the Beatles revival. In all fields of the arts, we now feel more comfortable when turn our backs on the present
‘I accumulated an anger that would rip a roof off’
Author Hilary Mantel has resisted shallow interpretations of her macabre work as domestic novels. Now her latest pitch-dark novel is the favourite to win the Booker prize
Contemporary fiction can still stand the test of time
Mark Lawson: As the Booker shortlist shows, authors prefer to write about the past. Yet great novels of their era feel fresh decades on
Not the Booker prize: Solo by Rana Dasgupta
Sam Jordison: The novel begins with the brilliant story of one man living through the 20th century in Bulgaria. If only it had stopped there
Booker shortlist backs the bookies
Sarah Crown: Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf Hall far outshines the rest of the shortlisted books. So, have the judges got it right this year?
Not the Booker prize: Neverland by Simon Crump
Sam Jordison: A very strange book that arrived on the shortlist by very strange means. Luckily, it's also very good
It’s Not the Booker shortlist time
Sam Jordison: After considerable rough and tumble, the six finalists in our prestigious contest are ready for your adjudication
Join the Not the Booker prize judges
Sam Jordison: We now have a (very) longlist. Please vote for your choice, and feel free to lobby your fellow jurors
Booker club: Hotel du Lac
Sam Jordison: Anita Brookner's unspectacular novel drew a lot of flak after it beat a better book. But you can't really blame the – perfectly good – book for that
Announcing the Not the Booker prize prize
Sam Jordison: The judges of Britain's most prestigious literary award pick the wrong book far too often. But who could be trusted to make a better choice? Why, the readers of this blog, of course