Mantel is the first woman and the first living British author to win the prestigious literary prize twice.
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The 39-year-old British author said she drew her inspiration from her family's years in service.
Andrew Morton, a British author who wrote the Diana book as well as hers, will stand in for her.
British author Aminatta Forna's novel The Memory of Love has won best book at the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ceremony in Sydney.
The Beach is based upon the novel by British author Alex Garland.
British author Hilary Mantel could be the first person to win all three UK major book prizes after being nominated for the Woman's Prize For Fiction.
Meanwhile, British author Robert Harris - who had been working with Mr Polanski on a film adaptation of his novel The Ghost - said he was taken aback by the weekend's events.
Mantel, whose novel is part of a trilogy about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, already holds the record for being the first woman and the first living British author to win the Man Booker Prize twice.
In The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography, due out soon from Doubleday, British author Simon Singh traces the evolution of the centuries-old battle between code writers and code breakers.
British author Philip Ball says yes, but only because he believes people are ingenious enough to figure out how to use fresh water more efficiently in the face of an alarming surge in demand (which tripled between 1950 and 1990).
Further down the street is Beit Oliphant (also called Beit Druze), the former house of Sir Lawrence Oliphant, a British Christian author who made friends with the Druze and moved here in 1882.
Tributes have flooded in for the British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens who has died at the age of 62.
British science fiction author, inventor and futurist Arthur C.
Rose Prince, a food journalist and author, says British people prefer not to think about it.
And its author, a British journalist, acknowledges that before he decided to write this polemic, he never spent much time thinking about food or felt the need to watch food programs.
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He raises the matter of England's religious relationship with America, but fails to discuss the reaction in England to Salem and Sewall's recanting, which is a shame given that the author himself is British.
The scheme is similar to a treasure hunt launched in 1979 by the author of a British children's book, "Masquerade, " which had clues to the location of an 18-carat jeweled golden hare hidden somewhere in Britain.
One man who believes sport's iconic moments do not require additional "memorializing" is British journalist Richard Williams, the author of Perfect 10: Football's dreamer, schemers playmakers and playboys.
British Labour MEP Derek Vaughan, the author of the report, said there needed to be more co-operation between the EU institutions, such as sharing human resources, building costs and interpretation costs.
Another of Sellers's shows championed Constance Spry, the social reformer, author and florist who educated millions of British people on the art of beautifying their homes in the mid-20th century.
So the author has his father, a Polish Jew turned British Anglican, posthumously converted to Hinduism, and burned by the local Indian community.
The author of the guidelines, Chief Constable Andy Trotter of the British Transport Police, said it was important to have a formal code to follow.
"Density and street connectivity also matter, but mixed use is the most important factor relating to physical activity and obesity, " said lead author Lawrence Frank , now a professor at the University of British Columbia.
Sir Nicholas is a former chief economist at the World Bank and author of an influential study of climate-change economics for the British government.
The British and Australian literary giants are joined by Impac prize winner Andrew Miller, Ghostwritten author David Mitchell, Orange Prize nominee Ali Smith and newcomer Rachel Seiffert.
In the 1840s, an English author famously wrote that if every person in China lengthened his shirttail by a foot, British cotton mills would work around the clock.
London-based food writer Jenny Linford, author of Food Lovers London, suggested Quo Vadis in Soho, an upscale restaurant that focuses on modern British cuisine.
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It is equally striking that British relative economic decline seems to have stopped, and may actually be being reversed even, as the author observes, in parts of manufacturing.
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