Julian Barnes

Former winner Hilary Mantel and radical contemporary author Will Self have both made the shortlist for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction, it was announced Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Julian Barnes, who won this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's poet laureate, were among the nominees for the 2011 Costa Book Awards announced on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "The Litigators" by John Grisham leapt to the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday.

Author Julian Barnes has won the Man Booker Prize, one of the highest-profile awards in English-language literature, at the fourth attempt for his novel "The Sense of an Ending".

LONDON (Reuters) - English author and bookmakers' favorite Julian Barnes finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, despite once dismissing the coveted award as "posh bingo."

British author Julian Barnes on Tuesday won the Man Booker Prize, one of the highest-profile awards in English-language literature, at the fourth attempt, for his novel "The Sense of an Ending".

LONDON (Reuters) - English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as "posh bingo," is favored to win it on Tuesday with his novel "The Sense of an Ending."

LONDON (Reuters) - English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as "posh bingo," is favored to win it on Tuesday with his novel "The Sense of an Ending."

The winner of Britain's Man Booker prize for literature is announced on Tuesday, but the ceremony has been overshadowed by the launch of a rival award that claims the Booker has become too populist.

Julian Barnes remains the favourite to win Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for literature after his "The Sense of an Ending" was nominated on the shortlist announced Tuesday.

The longlist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced Tuesday after being selected by a panel of judges headed by a former MI5 intelligence chief.

The Archbishop of Canterbury , singer Annie Lennox and actress Dame Judi Dench are among celebrities and public figures urging the government to scrap plans to sell off England's publicly-owned forests.

Crude, lewd and a national treasure, British comic magazine Viz celebrates 30 years of satire. What makes a British cultural institution? Style? Sophistication?

Crude, lewd and a national treasure, British comic magazine Viz celebrates 30 years of satire. What makes a British cultural institution? Style? Sophistication?