Booker prize: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale sequel makes shortlist
The Testaments, still under wraps before publication next Tuesday, joins final six alongside Salman Rushdie’s latest and a 1,000-page monologue
Night for Day by Patrick Flanery review – double lives examined
The past haunts the present in a multi-layered narrative centred on the film industry and themes of betrayal
Martin Amis novels – ranked!
As literature’s oldest enfant terrible turns 70, John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character, revisits the collected works
I’m not surprised Olivia Laing is sharing her book prize money – I did the same
The novelist splitting her winnings with other writers is a sign of the literary world’s hidden generosity, says writer, editor and translator Daniel Hahn
Olivia Laing splits James Tait Black prize win with fellow shortlistees
In Crudo, her winning novel, Laing explained she had ‘said that competition has no place in art and I meant it’
Robert Macfarlane finally wins Wainwright nature writing prize
Underland was the author’s fourth work to be shortlisted, and judges decided unanimously that the ‘claustrophobic thriller of sorts’ was his best
Finalists revealed in 2019 Guardian 4th Estate short story prize
The six-strong shortlist of new BAME writers has chosen an all-female cohort, with subjects ranging across genres and continents
Toni Morrison: Melissa Lucashenko and Maxine Beneba Clarke reflect on late author’s legacy
Two of Australia’s most prominent writers talk about what it meant to them to discover Toni Morrison’s books
Toni Morrison obituary
Nobel prizewinner and author whose stories have a strong historical and cultural base and a style, structure and tone that is specifically African American
Not the Booker prize 2019: the first three books on our shortlist are …
After a lively week of voting, three novels have made it to the final stage – where your opinions will remain crucial
Miles Franklin 2019 winner Melissa Lucashenko: ‘We need a revolution’
The prize-winning author on rage, her ‘risky’ novel and speaking truth to power
From Black Panther to Tade Thompson: why Afrofuturism is taking over sci-fi
Thompson’s Arthur C Clarke winning novel Rosewater, NK Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor ... the most exciting sci-fi is coming from writers of colour
The Booker prize 2019 longlist’s biggest surprise? There aren’t many
Previous winners Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood head the 13 contenders, many of whom are almost as well-established
Handmaid’s Tale sequel leads ‘exacting’ 2019 Booker prize longlist
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments – not published until September – is chosen alongside 12 other ‘credible winners’ including Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson
Not read them yet? A cheat’s guide to the 2019 Booker prize longlist
This year’s ‘Booker’s dozen’ includes two former winners as well as an international array of acclaimed fiction. Here’s what you need to know