Douglas Stuart’s Booker win heralds arrival of a fully formed voice
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’
National Book Awards: Charles Yu and Malcolm X biography take top prizes
Yu, writer of short stories and television, won best fiction for Interior Chinatown, his inventive, ‘gut punch’ second novel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘America under Trump felt like a personal loss’
As her novel Half of a Yellow Sun is hailed as the Women’s prize ‘winner of winners’, the Nigerian-born, US-based author talks about her relief over Joe Biden’s victory – and the bittersweet highs of a difficult year
Barack Obama to take part in 2020 Booker prize ceremony
US president to speak about reading Booker novels at the online ceremony, two days after his memoir is published
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie voted Women’s prize ‘winner of winners’
Nigerian author’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun, which won in 2007, named the best book in the prize’s 25-year history by the public
Richell prize 2020: Aisling Smith wins $10,000 emerging writers award for ‘evocative’ novel
Melbourne writer’s magical realist work revealed ‘assured new Australian literary voice’, judges said
Neurodivergent author Camilla Pang’s Explaining Humans wins Royal Society prize
The youngest ever winner of the prestigious award used science to compile a ‘manual for humans’
Not the Booker prize 2020: Richard Owain Roberts wins with Hello Friend We Missed You
The judges have agreed with the public vote and crowned this year’s daring, funny winner
Forward poetry prize goes to ‘audacious, erotically charged’ The Air Year
Caroline Bird, whose book was inspired by the first year of a relationship, takes £10,000 honour for best collection alongside awards for Will Harris and Malika Booker
Let’s Do It by Jasper Rees review – Victoria Wood, perfectionist
An unflinching, affectionate portrait of the hugely popular writer and performer with a flair for very English comedy
Not the Booker prize: vote now for the 2020 winner
Our annual experiment to find the best book of the year has given us six enjoyable novels – now we hand it over to you to select your favourite
Maggie O’Farrell: ‘I wrote at least 17 separate drafts of After You’d Gone’
The Costa and Women’s prize winner on the long gestation of her debut novel
Peter Pomerantsev’s study of ‘the war against reality’ wins Gordon Burn prize
This Is Not Propaganda ranges across the world in its study of disinformation, and reveals how the author’s parents struggled as Soviet dissidents
Kate Summerscale’s ‘true ghost story’ leads Baillie Gifford prize shortlist
The Haunting of Alma Fielding joins five other books, whose subjects range from the Beatles to the brain, competing for the £50,000 prize for nonfiction