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The British award, given annually for the best novel written by a woman in English, was presented to Ms. Robinson for "Home."

American writer Marilynne Robinson wins Britain's Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Home.

Home, only the third novel Robinson has published in 28 years, is unanimous choice of judgesPerhaps the surprise was that there was no surprise. This year's Orange prize for the best novel written by a woman was last night won by a writer regarded by some as one of the greatest of living novelists: Marilynne Robinson.Fi Glover, the broadcaster who chaired this year's judging panel, admitted the decision had been straightforward and unanimous. Home, Robinson's beautifully crafted exploration of family relationships and redemption, was the easy winner from the six shortlisted books, she said. 'All of the judges brought a couple of books to the table which they thought were definitely the contenders and Home was in all of our choices. We were in agreement.'Glover said she had now read Home three times and it got better, more deep and profound, each time. 'It does that wonderful thing of describing life that you almost knew about but never managed to put your finger on.'Robinson, whose day

Shilpa Shetty has revealed she is setting up home in Britain. Since winning Celebrity Big Brother in 2007, the Bollywood star has been flying back and forth between her home country of India, and London, and revealed she wants a permanent base in ...

Paul McCartney, whose Beatles gave Shea Stadium its first concert in 1965, will inaugurate the New York Mets' new home, Citi Field, with two shows next month, promoters said.

It's official. As The News posted last Friday, Paul McCartney will indeed perform the very first shows at The Mets' new home, Citi Field, on July 17th and 18th.

HDMI stands for High Definition Multi-media Interface. To transfer the digital video signal from a source to a TV, the source must convert the signal from digital to analog, this...

Jillian Harris is so distraught when she discovers that some of the bachelors may have girlfriends back home that she walks out on a cocktail party on next week's "The Bachelorette." Tempers flare among the 13 remaining men when they are called out for possibly having girlfriends back home. And Jillian breaks down in tears and flees the cocktail party to try to make sense of what she has discovered. Host Chris Harrison gives her a shoulder to cry on and offers to try to sleuth out the truth. He warns her, though, that she may not be happy if it turns out that one of the men deceiving her is someone she really cares about.

A lack of high-profile new releases kept 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' on top of the national home video sales and rental charts for a second consecutive week.

Jada Pinkett Smith is heading to TV, and ET paid her a visit on the set of her new show. Jada is starring in and executive producing "Hawthorne," a new drama series for TNT. In the show, Jada plays Christina Hawthorne, a recently widowed nurse who fights for her patients as Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital. At home, she also deals with the trials and tribulations of raising her rebellious teenage daughter Camille (Hannah Hodson). Michael Vartan of "Alias" fame co-stars as the hospital's Chief of Surgery. "I thought it was interesting to tell the stories from the nurses' point of view because it's the nurses that spend most of the time with the patients," Jada explains. "The doctors come in and they're there for about 15 minutes, but really it's the nurses that work the long shifts that are there for the patients for pretty much their stay at the hospital. They're the ones that have to wear all the different hats. Whatever the patien