Debut novelist Eimear McBride has won the £30,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction only a week after winning the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.

Ghostly images juxtaposing London’s finest views with their present-day perspectives have been released by the Museum of London as part of the update to an app giving users the chance to do the same.

Hilary Mantel said she was left “weak at the knees” after becoming the first British writer to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction twice after her novel Bring up the Bodies was named the best book of the year.

IT’S a political memoir with celebrity trappings — secrecy, security, controversy and a multi-million-dollar deal.