Artikel: Hilary Mantel’s sequel survives as big names miss out on Booker Prize

The British novelist Hilary Mantel, one of the darlings of historical fiction, is in the running for a second Booker Prize, for the follow up to the novel that won her the first award. The 12-strong longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction included “Bring up the Bodies”.

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