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
Not the Booker prize 2019: nominate your novel of the year now
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Tade Thompson’s ‘gritty’ alien invasion tale wins Arthur C Clarke award
Judges praise winning novel Rosewater for its ‘winning combination of science fictional invention and sly wit’
Jilly Cooper tops inaugural Comedy women in print awards
The Rutshire Chronicles author received the lifetime achievement honour, with prizes for rising stars Laura Steven and Kirsty Eyre
Rip Torn, cult actor and Artie in the Larry Sanders Show dies aged 88
Star of a string of 60s classics fell foul of Hollywood because of his temper but found a fresh lease of life in comedy, from TV’s Larry Sanders Show to the Men in Black films
I can’t write about a world without rape – because I don’t live in one
Women read and write crime fiction as a way to understand real experience. I was raped – and being told by the Staunch prize that books like mine are preventing justice is outrageous
Crime writers react with fury to claim their books hinder rape trials
Novelists have condemned the Staunch prize – for thrillers without violence against women – as a ‘gagging order’, after organisers said the genre could bias jurors
Miles Franklin award 2019: shortlisted Australian authors ‘unafraid to take risks’
Judges laud six authors vying for $60,000 prize, including Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Melissa Lucashenko and Rodney Hall
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones review – packed with ideas and emotion
The writer’s engrossing fourth novel, the tale of a terrible miscarriage of justice, is a worthy award winner
Over 40 and loving it: let’s celebrate fiction with positive older characters
Too many books feature sterotypical older women who can’t use phones and don’t like sex. Gransnet and imprint HQ are looking for writers to change all that
Suzanne Moore of the Guardian wins Orwell prize for journalism
Articles on Brexit and #MeToo aftermath make columnist joint winner with Steve Bloomfield of Prospect
Two books about Northern Irish Troubles win Orwell prize 2019
Anna Burns’ Milkman and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing win political fiction and political writing awards
Carnegie medal goes to first writer of colour in its 83-year history
Dominican-American Elizabeth Acevedo wins prestigious children’s award for The Poet X, while Jackie Morris takes illustration prize for The Lost Words
‘My life completely changed’: debut wins world’s richest prize for a novel
Nominated by just one library in Belgium, Emily Ruskovich’s Idaho lands the €100,000 International Dublin literary award
Women’s prize winner Tayari Jones: ‘Before this, I had never won a raffle’
An American Marriage is a story about the traumatic effect of injustice on a black family in the US. But it might never have been published if it wasn’t for the intervention of a mystery author