Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals
One in five shortlisted authors for top UK literary prizes in 2020 were black
September 2021
Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist
An Island by Karen Jennings review – stranger on the shore
August 2021
An Island by Karen Jennings review – compact allegory of postcolonialism
Books that made me
Anuk Arudpragasam: ‘There’s a lot of laughter in my life, but not when I read’
‘I’ve been poor for a long time’: after many rejections, Karen Jennings is up for the Booker
A shared Olympic gold defeats the ‘one champion’ narrative
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
July 2021
Rachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist
Justine Jordan
Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of ‘engrossing stories’
June 2021
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop review – war and mental collapse
Book of the week
The Promise by Damon Galgut review – legacies of apartheid
March 2021
Book of the day
Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley review – a dazzling Dickensian tale
Coventry announces UK city of culture programme
February 2021
Other lives
Jill Hood obituary
Other lives: Family lawyer whose earlier career in publishing saw her involved in helping to establish the Booker prize
January 2021
Booker winner’s mission to put UK's forgotten black writers back in print
The Black Britain, Writing Back series curated by Bernardine Evaristo aims to correct ‘historical bias in publishing’
December 2020
John le Carré never won the Booker – but then he preferred it out in the cold
Simon Jenkins
The late novelist was a shadowy giant of post-war British fiction, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
November 2020
Booker winner Douglas Stuart: 'I owe Scotland everything'
The author of Shuggie Bain talks about growing up in Glasgow in the 80s, the dangers of ‘poverty safari’ and what he’ll do now he has won the prestigious literary prize
Douglas Stuart's Booker win heralds arrival of a fully formed voice
Justine Jordan
Shuggie Bain is heartbreaking, but never mawkish – and already a favourite with readers
Douglas Stuart wins Booker prize for debut Shuggie Bain
Scottish-American wins £50,000 for autobiographical novel about a boy growing up in 80s Glasgow, which is ‘destined to be a classic’
