Mapleton Library & Community Centre

22/09/2023

As the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist is announced, we’ve pulled together the most interesting facts and trends that have emerged in this year’s selection

08/09/2023

From family dramas to scientific breakthroughs to competitive sport, the Booker Prize 2023 longlist offers a breadth of remarkable fiction

08/09/2023

Presenting our September Book of the Month: His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet. ⁠
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In 2016, Graeme Macrae Burnet was shortlisted for the with a mesmerising literary thriller based on ‘found’ historical documents, set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary. ⁠
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Discover the book: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/book-of-the-month-his-bloody-project-by-graeme-macrae-burnet
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03/07/2023

Coming soon: a weekly show on all things books and Booker Prizes.

03/07/2023

25/03/2023

We are saddened to hear that the brilliant Fay Weldon has died. As well as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979, she was a judge in 1983 and delivered one of the most memorable speeches in Booker history. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

11/02/2023

11/02/2023

11/01/2023

This quietly subversive novel showed how the English obsession with class colours our emotions, speech and interactions and made me look at the country I thought I knew with fresh eyes