Bring Up the Bodies News

The winner of one of the UK's richest literary prizes has been announced as Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng.

It's the second book in her series following Thomas Cromwell, set Henry VIII's England.

Jeremy Herrin, who will direct the theatrical adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Headlong theatre company.

AM Homes' novel May We Be Forgiven won the Orange Prize for Women's Fiction earlier this week, up against Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson, Barbara Kingsolver and Hilary Mantel.

It's the second book in her series following Thomas Cromwell, set Henry VIII's England.

American novelist A.M. Homes has won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel, "May We Be Forgiven."

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Who do you think should win the Women's prize for fiction 2013? Could it be another win for Hilary Mantel, or will Zadie Smith triumph? Tonight, the winner of the Women's prize for fiction - formerly the Orange prize, soon to be the Baileys prize - will be chosen.

From 2014, the literary award - formerly known as the Orange Prize - will be known as the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

It's the second book in her series following Thomas Cromwell, set Henry VIII's England.

I am off series books. It's been so for a time: my 'to-read' list on Goodreads is a shocking 260 books long, and might be longer if I hadn't preserved it by the expedient of a 'to-maybe-read' list.