Emma Donoghue & the ‘Room’ Bookshelf
As the Man Booker prize announcement nears, readers around the globe have explored Emma Donoghue‘s Booker shortlisted novel, Room.
The book tells the story of a 5-year-old boy named Jack who is imprisoned in a single room with his mother. Everyth...
Who will win the Booker prize?
Who do you think will carry off the most prestigious award in British books?Tonight, the winner of the Man Booker prize will be announced. The six books on the shortlist are Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey, Room by Emma Donoghue, In a Stra...
Booker prize 2010: Tom McCarthy remains favourite
As betting closed ahead of tonight's ceremony – one bookie having closed bets last week after an 'inexplicable' run of money on C – the experimental novel was still leading the fieldTom McCarthy's novel C remained the bookies' favourite to win the ...
‘We didn’t set out to be popular’
Andrew Motion, chair of the judges, on the shortlistMan Booker judging is famously hard work: 140-odd novels, most of which arrive in the spring and early summer, putting paid to any idea of weekends off, or holidays staring into space, or train-rides ...
Booker prize shortlist drops early frontrunners
Christos Tsiolkas and David Mitchell, both much-tipped when they appeared on the award longlist, have been overlooked in the six finalistsListen to Claire Armitstead and Sarah Crown discuss the Booker shortlist on a special edition of the Guardian Book...
Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist
Australian novelist could be first three-times winner, as fancied David Mitchell and controversial Christos Tsiolkas miss outThe Australian novelist Peter Carey was hailed as a modern day Dickens after he was shortlisted for what could be an unpreceden...
Booker prize shortlist: The expert view
The absence of novices on the Booker prize shortlist shows innovation isn't just about novelty, writes Claire ArmitsteadThe headlines may centre on those who didn't make the cut and on the likelihood of Peter Carey scoring a hat-trick, but the buzz in ...
The Man Booker prize shortlist
As the 2010 Man Booker prize for fiction shortlist is announced, Claire Armitstead and Sarah Crown discuss the books that made it through to the final stage - and the surprise omissions. The shortlist in fullParrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey...
My hero: Anne Lister by Emma Donoghue
'She had the sexual ethics of a bonobo, lying to every lover as a matter of policy. But she also looked into her heart and wrote about what she found there with unflinching precision'My hero is not exactly heroic. There's nothing noble about Anne Liste...
‘I knew I wasn’t being voyeuristic’
Reports that her new novel was based on the notorious Austrian kidnapping caused outrage – but it's now a Booker-longlisted bestsellerFor those with an ear to the ground, the rumblings about Room, Emma Donoghue's latest book, have been audible for ...
Real-life tragedies for real-life cash | Darragh McManus
Writing books based on actual atrocities like the Holocaust or the Josef Fritzl case can lead to fame and fortune. But is it right?Objectively, Emma Donoghue's Room is an excellent book. The idiomatic voice of her narrator – five-year-old Jack – is...
Room by Emma Donoghue and Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson | Book reviews
Susanna Rustin on contrasting stories of incarceration and escapeWhen Elisabeth Fritzl was freed from her suburban dungeon in Austria two years ago amid horrific revelations of incest, rape and official incompetence, the tabloid press fell on five-year...
