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A few times a week, I take a new book with me to lunch and give it a half an hour or so to grab my attention. Lunch Date is my judgment on that speed-dating experience. Who’s your date today? The Gift of Rain, by Twan Eng.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Peter Straus has compiled a rather in-depth quiz on the prize's history. The winner of the quiz will receive a copy of every title ever chosen to receive the prize. Cool beans!

The judging panel for the 2009 Man Booker International Prize is announced today. The writer Jane Smiley will chair an eminent panel.

Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, used last night’s awards ceremony as a platform to mount the attack on the art of book reviewing before announcing that Anne Enright had won this year’s £50,000 award for her novel The Gathering.

Dark horse The Gathering by Anne Enright wins. Who lost money betting on Ian McEwan?

Booker judge Giles Foden lets readers in on the process that saw the big names in literature cut from the Booker shortlist. What are the weighty factors? Does subject matter trump psychological effect, for instance? Does literary style win out over characterization? Here’s what went on behind the scenes.

Here's my review of Nikita Lalwani's Gifted, which I found to be a solid novel to the extent that I was able to immerse myself into the main character, Rumi Vasi. It's one of the few immigrant family culture-clash novels I've read that shows how harsh the clash can really be on the children of immigrants, where the harshness comes not from natives non-acceptance but instead from their parents'.

This year’s longlist is very diverse, with four first time novelists as well as some more familiar names. ... The 2007 shortlist will be announced on Thursday 6th September at a press conference at Man Group’s London office. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 16th October at an awards ceremony at Guildhall, London.