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Feature: One judge threatened to throw himself off a balcony, another provoked a punch-up ... To mark the Booker prize's 40th anniversary, we ask a judge from every year for the inside story of how the winner was chosen -
Review: A Strange Eventful History by Michael Holroyd
A group biography of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their families captivates Richard Eyre -
Review: The Assassin's Song by MG Vassanji
Giles Foden is impressed by a tale in which ancient and modern, religious and secular collide
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Carol Ann Duffy pens new poem in response to her work being removed from a GCSE curriculum
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Shortlist: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Jenny Downham, Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd are on the shortlist for the Guardian children's fiction prize
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News: The weirdest book title of the past 30 years has been selected for the Diagram of Diagrams prize: Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
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News: Sony's electronic book, the Reader, holds 160 titles and hopes to be a hit with travellers
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This week's reviews and features
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Review: Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx
Dreams have no chance of coming true in Annie Proulx's Wyoming tales, says Valerie Martin -
Review: Résistance by Agnès Humbert
Carmen Callil welcomes a timely translation of a heroine's war journal -
Review: Collected Poems by Mervyn Peake
Jay Parini finds much to admire in Mervyn Peake's collected poems -
Review: Deer Hunting With Jesus by Joe Bageant
Lynsey Hanley applauds an angry indictment of the US class system that dare not speak its name
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Feature: Most publishers no longer read unsolicited manuscripts - but that doesn't stop writers sending them in. Aida Edemariam, who has rejected more submissions than she cares to remember, investigates
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Interview: Debut author Andrew Davidson talks to Alison Flood about medieval mystics and the million-dollar publishing deal he won for The Gargoyle
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Top 10: Linguistics professor and author Peter K Austin shares a personal selection from the thousands of languages on the brink of disappearing
