Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work … better? Why we need difficult books
This year’s Booker-winner Milkman has been criticised for being challenging. But are we confusing readability with literary value?
Booker winner Milkman defies ‘challenging’ reputation to become bestseller
Anna Burns’s novel sold almost 10,000 copies in the first days after the prize, and Faber has printed 120,000 additional copies to meet demand
The story of Anna Burns shows how working-class talent is going to waste
When the creative industries belong to the wealthy and their offspring, and being poor and dependent is seen as a moral failure, the success of her book Milkman is truly a cause for celebration
Anna Burns’s Man Booker prize is more than a fairytale – it’s a lesson
The author’s literary triumph while skint and relying on food banks is the news we all need right now, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Food bank and housing charity thank Booker winner Anna Burns
Author mentioned charity that helped her in prizewinning novel’s acknowledgments
‘It’s nice to feel I’m solvent. That’s a huge gift’: Anna Burns on her life-changing Booker win
The author was in terrible pain and couldn’t afford to feed herself when she wrote her novel Milkman. She talks about growing up during the Troubles – and her ‘dreamlike’ success
The inside story of judging the Man Booker prize 2018
Novelist and judge Val McDermid reports that, contrary to award lore, the drama was restricted to the books at this year’s deliberations
Milkman is a bold choice but it’s unlikely to please booksellers
Anna Burns’s Booker winner is experimental, even baffling, but it does speak to our era
Anna Burns wins Man Booker prize for ‘incredibly original’ Milkman
Judges unanimous in choice of Northern Irish winner for ‘utterly distinctive’ Troubles-era novel
Man Booker prize: Daisy Johnson tipped to be youngest ever winner
Ladbrokes makes 27-year-old author of Everything Under 9/4 favourite to take the £50,000 award on Tuesday evening
Barneys, Books and Bust Ups: 50 Years of the Booker Prize review – a hilarious jaunt
This documentary tracked the progression of the Booker prize from intimate award to gape-mawed monster
Man Booker prize shortlist 2018: how do the final six stand up?
The thrilling diversity of the longlist is gone, and picking a winner remains a fool’s game, but this year’s last half-dozen are all worthy contenders
Booker judges shouldn’t blame editors for overlong novels
Authors take the credit when their books win prizes, and it should be admitted that they are also responsible for their failings
Has the Booker prize lost its mojo?
Rows, gaffes and disdainful speeches have always kept the Booker prize in the news. But now, a creeping sense of bad decision-making is undermining its cachet
Robin Robertson: ‘The poetry world is polarised. I’m in the middle, vaguely appalled’
The Man Booker shortlisted writer on his love for Jane Bowles and biographies, and why he never gives books as presents