Samantha Harvey was the only British writer to make the shortlist with her "bewitching" novella "Orbital", which follows the ...

For the first time in its 55-year history, the Booker Prize shortlist boasts a strong female presence, with five out of six authors being women. This year's finalists include diverse narratives from ...

The Australian writer Richard Flanagan traces his very being to his father surviving being a prisoner of war in Japan. And his dad only survives because a nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. It's ...

Last night at a ceremony in Somerset House, London, six authors were awarded £2,500, a specially bound edition of their books ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The 2024 Booker Prize short list is here! The prestigious literary prize, which is awarded to a novel written in English and published in ...

This year’s Booker Prize shortlist will feature the biggest number of women authors in its 55-year history. Five women and one man will feature on the shortlist for the prestigious literary prize. The ...

The Jhalak Prize has announced it is open for 2025 submissions, with a new award, the Jhalak Poetry Prize, to be presented for the first time alongside the Jhalak Prose Prize and the Jhalak Children’s ...

At the request of the nominees, the jury shared the prize between the shortlisted artists, who’d conveniently formed a new collective. The first collective to take the prize had already done so ...

Mercury Prize winners English Teacher tell Sky News they think the band name could have been 'cooler' The Leeds foursome's debut album stood out for its "originality and character," the judges ...

So, to give you the rundown on the runners and riders of the Mercury Prize 2024, we’ve delved into the selected albums and highlighted what they mean in these trying times. Ezra Collective were worthy ...

For the first time since 2003, Neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Lionel Messi – who share a total of 13 Ballon D’ors between them – were nominated among the shortlisted 30 candidates for the prestigious ...

Arne Dedert/dpa via AP Sir Salman Rushdie could become the first author to win both the Baillie Gifford and Booker Prizes. The author, 77, has been revealed as one of 12 nominees longlisted for ...