Top authors make mass call on Man Booker to drop American writers
Folio Academy members have overwhelmingly said prize should be closed to US novelists
Awards for women, writers of colour, small presses – why are there so many books prizes?
There are so many literary prizes these days that they could be regarded as an industry in their own right – but they’re needed to change the status quo
How to win a Booker prize: be under 50, enter your seventh book – about a man
Man Booker stats reveal that the average winner is white, English and in his late 40s – which does not make this year’s award easier to predict
British writers can’t win the big US prizes, so why can Americans win the Booker?
Opening the prize to global competition has been good for its profile, good for US writers – and a problem for novelists here and from the Commonwealth, writes novelist Tibor Fischer
Do celebrity book blurbs ‘blackmail’ readers?
Man Booker prize judge Colin Thubron has complained this week that star endorsements bully readers into admiring books, but it’s long been standard practice
Man Booker prize 2017: shortlist makes room for debuts alongside big names
George Saunders, Fiona Mozley and Emily Fridlund are nominated for their first novels, alongside new books from Ali Smith and Paul Auster
My fellow authors are too busy chasing prizes to write about what matters
What we read is now defined by the market, writes the novelist, poet and critic Amit Chaudhuri
Man Booker prize 2017 longlist led by Arundhati Roy’s return to fiction
Twenty years after her first novel took the same award, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness leads a field of 13, ranging from established stars to newcomers
The Man Booker prize 2017 longlist: who should be on it?
This year’s ‘Booker dozen’ is released on Thursday. Who will make the cut is hard to guess, but there are plenty of strong candidates
Paul Beatty: ‘Heartbreak is part of doing anything you want to do’
The Booker-winning author of The Sellout on difficult interviews, the joy and pain of writing, and why he shies away from big questions
Paul Beatty webchat– your questions answered on The Sellout, satire, Richard Pryor and Fran Ross
Winner of last year’s Man Booker prize for his blistering US satire, The Sellout, the novelist answered questions on Lee Morgan, enjoyable authors, Eric Clapton and beans on a fry up
Paul Beatty: ‘For me, Trump’s America has always existed’
Booker prize winner says president’s rise is not a shock and race relations have improved very little, even under Obama
Oneworld: the tiny publisher behind the last two Man Booker winners
It started as a kitchen-table project in Cyprus, and 30 years later has grown into a distinctive brand. Oneworld founders Juliet Mabey and Novin Doostdar talk about their instinct for success
Big cheers for small publishers
The independent publisher Oneworld has won two Man Bookers in a row … and there are small presses in the running for the Baillie Gifford and TS Eliot prizes
Reading group: which Beryl Bainbridge book should we read in October?
The many times she came close to winning the Booker prize show how good a novelist she was. Please help decide which of her books we’ll read this month