Uses Booker’s words to raise money.

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RNC: ‘Stand With Cory’

A New Jersey mayor, Cory Booker, plays down suggestions he is a hero after he rushed into a burning house to save a woman.

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New Jersey mayor in fire rescue

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker ran into a burning home Thursday night to try and rescue a trapped woman, an act of heroism that sent him to the hospital.

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Newark mayor saves neighbor from fire

A group of leading lights from the literary world launch a book prize to counter what they regard as the changing priorities of the Man Booker Prize.

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New book prize to rival Booker

Bookies’ favourite Julian Barnes is among six authors featured on this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist.

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Barnes heads up Booker shortlist

Now how about that Nobel? Philip Roth won the fourth International Man Booker Prize on Wednesday, beating out 12 other authors. The prize, meant to honor a writer’s body of work as opposed to any individual book, comes with a $100,000 purse. “One of…

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Philip Roth Wins Man Booker Global Prize

US author Philip Roth is announced as the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize.

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Booker Prize win for Philip Roth

Organisers of the Booker prize, for which Dame Beryl Bainbridge was shortlisted five times, launch a vote to find her best nominated book.

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Dame Beryl Booker prize launched

The judges of this year’s Man Booker prize are sent electronic book readers for the first time to help them work their way through more than 100 novels.

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Booker prize judges get e-readers

This is not something you hear about every day: Newark Mayor Cory Booker not only helped plow the city out on Monday and Tuesday, he also tweeted about it. Booker took plow suggestions via Twitter, and retweeted citizens’ requests in an effort to draw…

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Newark Mayor Digs Out City Himself

Bloomsbury is to re-print 150,000 copies of Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question after it wins the Man Booker Prize.

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Big print run for Booker winner

We have a winner! In an upset win over a crowded field of candidates, The Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question. Jacobson’s novel is a humorous take on Jewishness that follows three friends as they tackle what it…

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Comic Novel Wins Man Booker Prize

Shortlisted Man Booker Prize authors discuss their work

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Books of the Booker

The winner of this year’s Man Booker prize will be announced later with Tom McCarthy’s C the 8/15 favourite to win.

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McCarthy favourite to win Booker

Australian author Peter Carey, who has already won the Man Booker prize twice, has made the shortlist for this year’s prize.

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Carey heads up Booker shortlist