This year's Booker Prize was won by Irish author Paul Lynch for Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism. Find out more about it and the other five nominees who ...

Debra Benita Shaw is Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Not long to go now until the Olympics of English-language literature, the announcement of the Booker Prize winner on November 12.

Please accept functional and analytics cookies to access this content. The International Booker Prize celebrates the world’s best fiction in translation. Awarded annually for a single book, the prize ...

THE Booker Prize is the most important literary award for English-language novels, and this year’s shortlist is notable for boasting the most number of women writers in its history – five women and ...

Radio 1Xtra host Richie Brave has said the Booker Prize, awarded since 1969 for the best work of fiction in English, should consider a name change because of links to slavery. Brave revealed that ...

WITH all the turmoil that has unfolded in the last five years – a global pandemic followed by economic upheavals and escalating political tensions – it’s fitting that the novels shortlisted for the ...

Percival Everett, the only man on this year’s Booker Prize shortlist. The five books by women on the list are strikingly varied. Edmund de Waal, the chairman of the judges’ committee ...

Waterstones and the Booker Prize Foundation are launching The Booker Library, an immersive pop-up shop that will be brought to Waterstones Piccadilly on 13th November and will remain open until ...

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. Kiley Reid’s follow-up to her ...

In the process, she becomes the first Australian to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize in a decade. Five out of the six authors in contention for the £50,000 prize this year are women.

Samantha Harvey’s slim novel Orbital is set in a day of these astronauts’ lives as they circle the Earth several times over to observe meteorological phenomena and conduct scientific ...