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

The Guardian view on book prizes: the more the merrier

Editorial: The Booker prize may have lost some of its prestige, but that allows other awards – and different books – to shine

‘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

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

Booker prize: Silicon Valley billionaire takes over as new sponsor

Charitable foundation Crankstart, run by married philanthropists Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman, will fund the award for five years

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James review – violent and cliched

The Man Booker winner calls his fantasy trilogy an ‘African Game of Thrones’. The gore is there, but where’s the subtlety?

The Guardian view on business and arts: cash without a voice

Editorial: Corporate sponsorship needs to steer clear of impinging on artistic freedoms

No more Americans? What a new sponsor could mean for the Man Booker prize

Hedge fund’s departure as £1.6m backer of the UK’s leading fiction award has prompted feverish speculation about the prize’s future

Booker prize trustees search for new sponsor after Man Group exit

Hedge fund firm says it plans to focus its resources instead on its diversity campaign

Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds review – precision of observation

This story of an ambitious actor and his obsessed fan is brilliantly written, but lacks contemporary resonance

‘Why Jay?’: Chigozie Obioma on the haunting death that inspired his novel

The Man Booker shortlisted author is back with The Orchestra of Minorities, a novel that grew from a life-changing event during his student days in Cyprus

A new start: Sarah Hall on trauma and the unexpected tonic of extreme reading

The birth of her child, the death of her mother and the breakdown of her marriage hit the author at once. Then she was asked to judge the Booker prize

The big literary quiz of the year: authors test your knowledge of 2018’s books

From salmon fishing to textavism, naked tennis to Trump’s thirst for Diet Coke ... pit your wits against authors like Will Self and Anne Enright in our bumper quiz

George Saunders: ‘A lot of my extended family are Trump supporters’

The books interview: the Booker prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo on exasperating his readers, kindness in an unkind world and why he wrote an operatic libretto set at a Trump rally