Authors call for removal of Booker prize vice-president over ‘homophobic’ views

Emma Nicholson’s views on same-sex marriage raised as concern by writers and one former Booker winner

Burgess papers reveal alternatives to notorious Earthly Powers ‘catamite’ opening

As the novel turns 40, researchers discover manuscripts with different versions of the provocative first line

Beyond Mantel: the historical novels everyone must read

From Francis Spufford to Sarah Waters, contemporary writers have brought new complexity and playfulness to historical fiction

Anne Enright: ‘A lot of bad things happen to women in books. Really a lot’

She began a novel about the dark side of Hollywood – and then the Weinstein scandal broke. The Booker-winner on mothers, marriage and misogyny

Hilary Mantel: ‘I’ve got quite amused at people saying I have writer’s block. I’ve been like a factory!’

As the long-awaited final volume of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy is published, the twice Booker winner discusses her writing life and why she wants to write a play of her controversial Margaret Thatcher story

Independence Square by AD Miller review – thriller in post-Soviet Ukraine

From Kiev to London by way of Greeneland … the Booker-shortlisted author’s protagonist searches for answers

Actress by Anne Enright review – the spotlight of fame

The Booker winner’s seventh novel investigates a woman’s memories of her starry, damaged mother

‘Another author’: outrage after BBC elides Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker win

News presenter alluded to her joint victory with Margaret Atwood but failed to give the name of Girl, Woman, Other’s author

Without youth theatre, I would never have won the Booker prize

Acting onstage was how I discovered my creativity, away from class and racial division, says Booker prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo doubles lifetime sales in five days after joint Booker win

Almost 6,000 copies of Girl, Woman, Other sold in the week after Evaristo’s win alongside Margaret Atwood

Judging the Booker prize: ‘I’m proud of our decision’

Picking a winner is an impossible task, says Booker judge Afua Hirsch. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo both deserved to win

The Booker prize judges have exposed the doublethink behind our arts awards

Naming Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo joint winners has pulled back the curtain on what we’re told is the ‘best’

Booker winners Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood on breaking the rules

The judges staged a ‘joyful mutiny’ to name the pair joint winners of the literary prize. And that’s not all that unites them

Backlash after Booker awards prize to two authors

Decision to make first black female winner, Bernardine Evaristo, share £50,000 prize with Margaret Atwood causes controversy

Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019

Judging panel break rules in choosing The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other as joint winners