The youngest winner in the award’s 45-year history, 28-year-old novelist Eleanor Catton has taken home the 2013 Man Booker prize.
Rivals of Protestants, murderous royal patrons and other 15th to 16th century power brokers are given life in a show of North Europe’s renaissance.
The astounding predictions of an octopus, the perils of "chexting" and the pain of getting around on planes were the laughing matters of 2010.