Booker Prize shouldn’t reward fiction for simply tackling ‘issues’, says chair of judges
Edmund de Waal and his panel announce 13-strong longlist for annual literary award which includes the first ever Dutch author to be chosen
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Edmund de Waal and his panel announce 13-strong longlist for annual literary award which includes the first ever Dutch author to be chosen
The Booker shortlistee’s new novel delves into our moral choices. But, as he has found on campus, moralising is more in vogue today
The author overcame an unhappy childhood at boarding school – and went on to write his Booker-winning bestseller
Today's anxiety about ‘authenticity’ and racial stereotypes comes to the fore in the satire American Fiction. But it’s nothing new
The Irish novelist talks about his homeland, his cancer diagnosis and his new beginning
Paul Lynch's Prophet Song was the weak link in a strong shortlist – and the real winner was overlooked
Book was sent to cellmate while she was in isolation, despite it being banned in Iran, and was kept in secret library
Sir Ben Okri paid tribute to Camilla whose love of reading has encouraged others to delve into books
The celebrated novelist, who has died aged 87, is best known for her 1990 Booker winner – but what else should you read?
Rose Tremain, who included a trans child in one of her books, says novelists are being ‘boxed in’ by their experiences
A strong field of nominees has produced a slate of fiction you’ll want to spend time with – and will be surprised by
Jonathan Escoffery’s novel If I Survive You, about a young man fumbling for an identity, swings from wry satire to laugh-out-loud funny
Long-listed for the Booker, Paul Harding’s This Other Eden slips into the lives of a community of ex-slaves with tremendous grace and power
Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s Booker-longlisted A Spell of Good Things is a tale of haves and have-nots with the sweep of 19th-century fiction
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, deservingly longlisted for the Booker, circles intelligently around an Irish family mired in friction
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow’s book has been praised as a ‘poetic debut’ as Sir Salman Rushdie misses out on longlist
Out with the old superstars and buzzy youngsters. This year’s longlist wants you to try lesser-known, challenging fiction – it’s a good move
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow's All the Little Bird-Hearts is one of four debut novels to secure a spot on the prestigious list
While the l-word is often used as shorthand for excellence, attitudes towards genre fiction, especially crime, can be unfairly dismissive
They were both literary titans, with many similarities – loath though they might have been to admit them. How will they both be remembered?
The UK's ‘weak Left-liberalism' and his ‘crucifixion’ in the press caused Amis to live abroad. Yet he remained English to his core
Giving a text a new readership can be a controversial, or even fatal, endeavour. Translators reveal how they approach problematic books
He became one of those writers whose private life held as much fascination for some as his work and his often provocative opinions