Booker plc press cuttings

Includes:
Articles regarding 1981 winner and multiple shortlisted author Salman Rushdie, Mar-16 Jun 1992 (fols 12-15 and 26).
Articles and book reviews regarding 1981 chair of judges and 1983 shortlisted author Malcolm Bradbury, 6 Jul- Sep 1992 (fols 32,65, 93-94, 99).
Review of 1984 winning author Anita Brookner’s Fraud, 6 Sep 1992 (fol 63).
Article regarding 1987 chair of judges and management committee member P.D James, 26 Oct 1991 (fol 1).
Article reviewing a television programme profiling 1977 shortlisted author Barbara Pym, 21 Feb 1992 (fol 9).
Article detailing an experiment where the first Booker Prize winning book Something to Answer For was sent to ten top publishers including Faber and Faber who originally published it, all of whom rejected it, Mar 11 1992 (fol 11).
Article regarding 1986 prize winning author Kingsley Amis, 6 May 1992 (fol 18).
Article regarding 1970 prize winning author Bernice Rubens, 9 Jun 1992 (fol 25).
Article reviewing 1990 judge Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety, 3 Sep 1992 (fol 52).
Article regarding 1987 winner and 1977 shortlisted author Penelope Lively, 14 Sep 1992 (fol 76).
Article profiling 1988 judge and 1989 shortlisted author Rose Tremain, Sep 1992 (fols 91 and 92).
Article regarding the film adaptation of Graham Swift’s 1983 shortlisted book In Waterland , Sep 1992 (fol 101).
Article regarding 1990 shortlisted author John McGahern, 11 Oct 1992 (fol 129).

Press cuttings and articles regarding , relating to and mentioning the Booker Prize, 11 Dec 1991-14 Oct 1992 (fols 4, 6, 10, 19, 37, 83, 114, 118, 123, 128, 147-149, 152, 173).
In depth articles regarding and relating to the Booker Prize, 2 Oct- 29 Nov 1992 (fols 79, 106, 111, 113, 137, 202, 245. 250).
Press cuttings and articles regarding and relating to literary prizes mentioning the Booker Prize, 27 May-27 Nov 1992 (fols 21-24, 29-30, 240, 248)
Articles regarding Michael Caine, 24 Nov 1991- 20 May 1992 (fols 3 and 20).
Article regarding Ion Trewin’s move from Hodder and Stoughton to Orion, 24 Apr 1992 (fol 16).
Article regarding what happens to unsold books , mentioning the fate of unsold Booker shortlisted and winning titles, 8 Oct 1992 (fol 112).
Article regarding Tim Waterstone, 10 Oct 1992, (fol 124).
Article profiling Booker plc, 28 Jun 1992 (fol 28).
Article profiling Book Trust who administer the prize, Jul 1991 (fols 38-39).
Article regarding details of the first Booker Russian Prize, 10 Dec 1992 (fol 126).

Press cutting regarding the announcement of the judging panel, Apr 1992 (fol 17).
Press cuttings and articles regarding chair of judges Victoria Glendinning including an in depth article on the judging process and a defence for choosing joint winners, 20 Feb-27 Nov 1992 (fols 8, 54, 127, 153, 186, 249).
Articles regarding judge Mark Lawson including his defence for choosing joint winners, 6 Sep-18 Oct 1992 (fols 62 and 203).
Articles regarding judge John Coldstream, 5-9 Oct 1992 (fols 108 and 116).

Press cuttings and articles speculating on what may be on the shortlist, 1-10 Sep 1992 (fols 47 and 50).
Press cuttings and articles regarding the announcement of the shortlist, 13 Sep-11 Oct 1992 (fols 82, 84-85, 87-88, 115, 122,125,131-132, 251).
Press cuttings and articles regarding and relating to the shortlist in general , particularly the betting odds, 20 Sep -15 Oct 1992 (fols 86, 105, 109, 117, 121, 138-139, 144-145).
Article regarding the exhibition of the bound copies of the shortlisted books at the British Library, Feb 1993 (fol 265).
Press cuttings regarding the shortlisting of Michael Ondaatje, 10 Sep 1992 (fol 81).
Article regarding the shortlisting of Barry Unsworth , 13 Oct 1992 (fol 154).
Press cuttings and articles regarding the shortlisting of Patrick McCabe, 14-23 Oct 1992 (fols 158,183,222-223, 225, 233).

Press cuttings and articles regarding the announcement of the winner of the 1992 prize, 14-18 Oct 1992 (fols 103-104, 110, 135-136, 140-142, 146-147, 150-151, 155-157, 159-160, 162-165, 167-169, 178-182-195, 209-210).
In depth articles regarding and profiling the joint winners of the 1992 prize, 14-25 Oct 1992 (fols 161, 172,174, 176, 184-185, 187, 190, 194, 198, 200, 206, 213, 221, 236-237, 259, 267).
Post ceremony , post mortem and analysis articles, 14-30 Oct 1992 (fols 166, 193, 197, 215, 224, 231, 238-239).
Press cuttings and articles regarding joint prize winning author Michael Ondaatje, 17 Oct -1 Dec 1992 (fols 199, 234-235, 252).
Press cuttings and articles regarding joint prize winning author Barry Unsworth , 11 Oct 1992-8 Jul 1993 (fols 133, 177, 188, 191, 205, 220, 229, 243, 253, 262, 271-272).
Cutting from Private Eye satirising the award ceremony dinner menu, 23 Oct 1992 (fol 230).

Press cuttings and articles regarding Booker Prize related TV spots in particular reviews of the coverage of the award ceremony, 6 Feb-18 Oct 1992 (fols 7, 41, 43-46, 48, 70, 201, 208, 212).
Press cuttings and articles regarding the announcement of the shortlist , 9-20 Sep 1992 (Fols 1780-1781, 1787-1789, 1792, 1795, 1800-1801, 1803-1811, 1814-1815, 1817-1818, 1822, 1827, 1837, 1839, 1841, 1851, 1853-1855, 1870, 1877, 1885, 1887, 1892-1893, 1996-1997).
Press cuttings and articles regarding the shortlist in general , 10- 30 Sep 1992 (Fols 1812, 1843, 1868, 1883, 1886, 1897, 1963, 2003-2004, 2041).
Press cuttings regarding betting odds for the shortlist, 10-12 Sep 1992 (Fols 1842, 1856, 1863-1864, 1866, 1874, 1882)

Arranged chronologically

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