His solution is Machiavellian and bloody. But Mantel rose to the occasion with another novel that takes us even deeper into the murky world of a man who rose from blacksmith’s son to become King Henry VIII’s right hand man.Ĭromwell has to juggle the needs of a King who has tired of his second wife and her inability to produce the required heir, with the necessity of safeguarding the nation and protecting his own career. I thought it would be hard to equal the stupendous Wolf Hall, the first of Mantel’s “Thomas Cromwell” trilogy. What I do remember is the emotional reaction they provoked: from joy and laughter to sadness and The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro I don’t recall all the details of the plots or the characters’s names.
They are the books that were not only delightful when I first read them, they’ve stayed with me ever since. The ten books I’ve selected are that I think of as in the premiere league of Booker winners. I could use memory and recall as my test.Īnd so the question I asked myself was this: Which books spontaneously rise to mind when I think about my most enjoyable Booker Prize titles?
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There’s also the issue that it’s several years since I read some of the winners so I can only vaguely remember the story and the characters.īut that gave me an inkling of how to identify my favourites. The genres, styles and themes among the 50 winners are so different I couldn’t see how I could possibly weigh one up against another. Now I’ve finished the project, I thought the time had come to try and come up with an answer. I’ve been asked that question many times over since I embarked on my Booker Prize project. What’s your favourite Booker Prize winner of all time?
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