Wolf Hall wins the Booker Prize!

Congratulations to Hilary Mantel, whose fantastic novel Wolf Hall was awarded the Booker Prize last night! Upon winning the award, she remarked that if bagging the Booker Prize was like being in a train crash “at this moment I am happily flying through the air”.

You can check out an interview, videos and writing by Hilary here

The first book published by Fourth Estate to ever win the Booker Prize, Wolf Hall had been a hot favourite of bookies since the longlist was announced. Apparently William Hill had never seen a betting pattern like it, and Scotsmen.com quoted one spokesperson who said it was “almost like an unspoken psychic rumour” that Mantel would take the prize.