Join Peter Thomas, Cathedral librarian, as he explores and explains the importance of this unique treasure held by the Cathedral Library.
Originally owned by Leofric, the first Bishop of Exeter, The Exeter Book is a rare literary survivor from the 10th @century. It consists of beautiful Anglo-Saxon poetry and riddles and provides a unique insight into our national past.
The whittling has finished. The judges of this year's Man Booker Prize started with a daunting 145 novels and have winnowed, sifted, culled, and in some cases hurled, until there was only one left: Budleigh Salterton-based Hilary Mantel 's Bring up the Bodies .
Hers is a story unique in Man Booker history. She becomes only the third author, after Peter Carey and J.M. Coetzee , to win the prize twice, which puts her in the empyrean. But she is also the first to win with a sequel ( Wolf Hall won in 2009) and the first to win with such a brief interlude between books. Her...
