Novel senses of new: the 2018 Goldsmiths prize for fiction shortlist

As the 2018 shortlist is announced, the chair of this year’s judges explains how they hope to reward more than simple innovation

Liam McIlvanney wins Scottish crime fiction award named after his father

Prize renamed in 2016 to honour the late ‘godfather of tartan noir’ William McIlvanney goes to his son for The Quaker, based on the Bible John murders

The Guardian view on lengthening books: read them and weep

Editorial: The judges of the Man Booker prize have complained that some entries needed editing. As titles grow longer, the patience of readers can shorten

Man Booker prize shortlist narrows the field – and also its sights?

The longlist for this year’s award had a daring reach, but the final six contenders return readers to rather more conventional territory

Man Booker 2018: Daisy Johnson becomes youngest ever author shortlisted for prize

The 27-year-old British author’s debut Everything Under is up for the £50,000 award, while Michael Ondaatje and the first nominated graphic novel are knocked out

Danez Smith becomes youngest winner of Forward poetry prize

Chair of judges Bidisha pays tribute to collection Don’t Call Us Dead’s ‘passionate and very contemporary’ verse

Haruki Murakami withdraws from alternative Nobel prize

The novelist had been shortlisted for Swedish award running in place of scandal-hit honour, but says he wishes to concentrate on writing instead

French bookshops revolt after prize selects novel self-published on Amazon

Booksellers say Renaudot prize nomination of Marco Koskas’ novel, which is only available online, is inviting their trade to ‘jump into the wolf’s mouth’

BBC short story prize selects all-female shortlist for fifth time

No space for male authors in race for £15,000 award, whose entries are judged blind

Stop trying to sex up the Man Booker judges’ meetings. We are geeky nerds

The image of furious rows and storming-outs is not one I recognise but a confection to glamorise publishing, says Guardian writer Alex Clark

‘Over my dead body’: Booker prize archives reveal unknown judging battles

British Library puts archive online, ranging from the coin-toss that won David Storey 1976’s award to Joanna Lumley’s disdain for The Bone People

Sally Rooney novel Normal People unites critics in praise

Lauded as ‘Salinger for the Snapchat generation’ the writer has won wide acclaim

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey – review

A moving plea for a better and fairer society

Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami up for alternative Nobel literature prize

The New Academy, founded after the 2018 prize was cancelled in the wake of sexual assault scandal, announces shortlist of four

Miles Franklin 2018: Michelle de Kretser wins $60,000 award for second time

The Life to Come author says that even in tumultuous political times, literature has an important role to play