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Six works of literary fiction at its most adult.
Enticing young people to read will require a concerted effort by parents, carers, teachers and public intellectuals to promote reading for enjoyment.
Is Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny the great American–Indian novel?
A slim but searing novel about an international group of people living on the International Space Station.
From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists.
Creation Lake is currently longlisted for the Booker Prize. Our reviewer believes it’s one of the most important novels to have been published in recent memory.
Six brilliant novels from around the world but only one can win.
Kiley Reid’s follow-up to her Booker longlisted debut is a novel about money. But it’s most interesting when it explores the gap between our imagined selves and what our actions reveal.
Swahili readers who have not encountered Abdulrazak Gurnah’s work in other languages are in for a great treat.
The novel imagines how a society can be gripped by a slow-building authoritarian regime yet continue its mundane daily rituals.
Bernice Rubens won the 1970 Booker prize for her novel, The Elected Member, and is the only Welsh person to have ever won the prize.
Irish writers have benefited from structural factors in recent years. However, ask them in person and Irish writers are more likely to highlight impediments to producing work.
Married couple Woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene won for their powerful short story A Soul of Small Places.
Perception and reality collide when a mother and daughter are compelled to live in the shadow of a monstrous artist.
A Spell of Good Things powerfully explores polygamy, patriarchy, political corruption and poverty.
Judges called it a profound novel that asks the contemporary question: what happens to us when our memories disappear?
Reflecting on themes as diverse as motherhood, war, religion and memory, our experts were impressed by the 2023 shortlist.
Stifling heat, drunk actors, an unfinished script – in 1985, novelist Barry Unsworth observed the chaotic creative process of playwright Dario Fo.
John Banville calls Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill’s Hotel, ‘an inexplicably neglected 20th-century masterpiece’. Carol Lefevre shares her fascination with William Trevor’s ‘crazed’ photographer Ivy Eckdorf.
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