The Women’s prize at 25: co-founder Kate Mosse on why we still need it
The prize has become one of the largest annual celebrations of literary talent in the world, but the need to promote women’s voices remains undiminished
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: ‘For a long time I believed that Hogwarts actually existed’
The winner of the 2020 International Booker on struggling through Proust and being terrified of Roald Dahl’s Witches
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook review – a dazzling debut
A community of strangers attempt to live in a natural world made inhospitable by the climate crisis in this tale of survival and strife
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi review – a painfully invisible existence
This tender, visceral novel follows a character who is both dead and alive, male and female
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze review – the double life of a London gangster
The tension between the author’s ultraviolent life on the streets and his university studies are at the heart of this autofictional Booker-longlisted debut
JK Rowling returns human rights award to group that denounces her trans views
Author ‘follows my conscience’ after head of Robert F Kennedy Human Rights group says her views are transphobic
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins International Booker for The Discomfort of Evening
Dutch author, 29, becomes youngest winner of £50,000 prize, for ‘virtuosic’ debut with translator Michele Hutchison
Not the Booker: Emma Donoghue, Abi Daré and Shahnaz Ahsan join the shortlist
The addition of Akin, The Girl With the Louding Voice, and Hashim & Family means we now have six books on our shortlist – let’s get reading
Lucy Ellmann lands James Tait Black prize, 38 years after her father’s win
The mostly single-sentence novel Ducks, Newburyport scoops £10,000 award for its piercing portrait of Trump’s America
Real Life by Brandon Taylor review – violent legacy of the past
This Booker-longlisted snapshot of the life of a queer black postgraduate forcefully tackles the effects of racism and abuse
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak review – a poignant look back at another age
What has happened to the belief that social media can create a new and better world?
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz review – intimate, electric and defiant
The Mojave and Latinx poet, up for this year’s Forward prize, is on breathtaking form in this intellectually rigorous collection exploring love and identity
Not the Booker 2020: the first three novels on our shortlist are …
After a fortnight of voting, here are the books that have made it to the 2020 shortlist – your opinions remain crucial!
Real Life by Brandon Taylor review – a brilliant debut
This tale of a black research student and his ‘benign’ white colleagues crackles with the painful comedy of privilege and prejudice
‘Sloppy’: Baileys under fire over Reclaim Her Name books for Women’s prize
Prize sponsor apologises for putting Frederick Douglass on cover of Martin R Delany biography, while expert in Edith Maude Eaton says author may have never written story at all