The winner in Exclusive Books’ promotion, the Boeke Prize, was announced this week. Critics vote on the best of six books chosen by booksellers. The ranking of the books from first to last is: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Sceptre); The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo); Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage); Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (Bloomsbury); Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding (Picador); and Dj Dead by Kathy Reichs (Arrow). The first choice of the M&G’s critic, Shirley Kossick, was Fugitive Pieces.