Toffee by Sarah Crossan review – a profoundly moving YA novel in verse

Trauma, grief and belonging are all addressed in this poignant verse novel from the Irish children’s laureate

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi review – love and loss in Oman

This family saga is the first novel from the Gulf to be shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize

‘The London book of our lifetime’: Guy Gunaratne wins Jhalak prize

In Our Mad and Furious City, which was spurred by the murder of Lee Rigby and nominated for the Man Booker prize, takes the award for writers of colour

Will Eaves wins Wellcome book prize for fictionalised take on Alan Turing

Murmur, which depicts the mathematician’s ordeal after he was convicted for having a gay lover, is hailed by judges as ‘a future classic’

Calling BAME writers: entries open for 2019 short story prize

The hunt is on for up-and-coming writers who could scoop this year’s £1,000 Guardian/Fourth Estate prize

Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly review – a lyrical tour de force

This rolling free-verse epic charts the life of a 19th-century servant in rural Gloucestershire during a period of political upheaval

Feminist retellings of history dominate 2019 Women’s prize shortlist

From Pat Barker’s reworking of Greek myth to Anna Burns’s take on the Troubles, the finalists turn familiar stories on their heads

Show time: the 2019 shortlist for museum of the year

From the V&A Dundee to the Pitt Rivers in Oxford, public figures including Kirsty Wark and Matthew Rhys champion their favourite museums

Gene Wolfe, ‘magnificent’ giant of science fiction, dies aged 87

Hailed by authors from George RR Martin to Neil Gaiman, Wolfe was most known for his magnum opus The Book of the New Sun

Tash Aw: ‘It used to be that Asia was poor. “Asians are rich” is the new cliche’

Twice Booker longlisted, the Malaysian author is shining a light on immigration stories rarely told in fiction

Man Booker International shortlist dominated by female authors and translators

Six-book shortlist includes last year’s winner Olga Tokarczuk, Annie Ernaux and Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Annie Ernaux: ‘I was so ashamed for Catherine Deneuve…’

The French writer on her singular memoir being longlisted for the Man Booker international prize and why #MeToo has her backing

Book prize names two winners as it criticises ‘false hierarchy’ of awards

Republic of Consciousness prize honours Will Eaves and Alex Pheby, but says awards make us wrongly consider a sole winner ‘the best’

Gripping refugee tale wins Waterstones children’s book prize

Anti-trafficking campaigner Onjali Q Raúf was inspired to write adventure story The Boy at the Back of the Class by a Syrian mother and baby she encountered in a Calais camp

Philip Pullman wins JM Barrie lifetime achievement award

Author of His Dark Materials acclaimed as ‘a magical spinner of yarns’ who appeals to all ages – especially children