Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel vs Kate 'controversy': No reading required

The controversy surrounding the Booker prize novelist's speech reveals far more about the act of reading than the Duchess of Cambridge. What we read, how we read, and who decides the same.

Mantel's comments on Kate completely misguided: David Cameron

Prime Minister David Cameron, on a trip to India, has termed as "completely misguided and completely wrong" the venomous verbal attack on Kate Middleton by British novelist Hilary Mantel.

Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel calls Kate a 'shop-window mannequin'

In an unusually scathing public attack on a British royal, Hilary Mantel said the princess had no personality, a "perfect plastic smile" and appears to have been designed by a committee.

Hilary Mantel leads Booker race

Judges are choosing the winner of Britain's most prestigious literary trophy from a shortlist that includes novels set in the court of King Henry VIII and the opium dens of Mumbai.

Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis makes it to Booker shortlist

Noted Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil is among 12 authors long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book.

Jeet Thayil on 2012 Man Booker long-list

Noted Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil is among 12 authors long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book.