The singer on how being in Pulp prepared him for judging a literary prize, reading 163 books while on tour, and feeling like the odd one out on the panel• M John Harrison becomes the first science fiction author to win the...
Read MoreShortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer historyThe literary power couple is a historically...
Read MoreI found being a Booker judge hugely rewarding. All the works on our shortlist will change how you see the world• This year’s Booker prize shortlistAs a Booker judge, I think I have worked harder than I have ever done before....
Read MoreThe Lincoln in the Bardo author is back with another metaphysical tale. He discusses Buddhism, partisan politics and the terrifying flight that changed his lifeLike his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker...
Read MoreThe judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 awardJustine Jordan: The risky strategy of Booker winner Flesh pays...
Read MoreThe protagonist’s inner life is hidden from the reader in this highly original novelReflecting on the Booker judging process, chair Roddy Doyle stressed the “singularity” of Flesh, the most unusual novel on the shortlist. In his...
Read MoreAs the number of children reading for pleasure hits a record low, the new award highlights its importance for wellbeing, and will give away thousands of booksBooker prize launches £50,000 children’s awardAt the end of the movie...
Read MoreChildren will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce• ‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-BoyceThe Booker prize foundation has launched a major new...
Read MoreThe Irish author’s novel set in an imagined Dublin descending into far-right tyranny wins £50,000 prize• Paul Lynch’s timely Booker winner is a novel written to jolt the reader awakeIrish author Paul Lynch...
Read MoreThe novelist takes the £50,000 prize with a ‘strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself’• Damon Galgut is a clear and unsurprising Booker winnerDamon Galgut has...
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