Unexploded by Alison MacLeod – review
Viv Groskop enjoys an unadorned novel about a young family struggling with love and fear in wartime Brighton
Anne Olivier Bell: The last of the ‘Monuments Men’
After the second world war, a team of art experts tried to rescue thousands of works stolen by the Nazis. Charles Saumarez Smith celebrates Anne Olivier Bell, the last of the 'Monuments Men' who is soon to be the subject of a George Clooney film
It’s not in print… but this Thief could steal a prize
Books that start life in digital form are finally breaking through to become prize contenders. And here's one for next year, writes Anna Baddeley
Not the Booker prize: it’s back, and you’re a judge
Our pioneering attempt to create a truly democratic, reader-judged books prize, is returning for another year of high-toned brawling. Seconds out!
G by John Berger – review
John Berger's 1972 Booker prize-winning novel rewards serious reading, says Anthony Cummins
How to choose the Best Young British Novelists
Judging Granta's latest list of 20 best has been in some ways harder than doing the same for the Booker prize's much shorter field
A Booker judge’s envy of the Arthur C Clarke award
In a very impressive shortlist, the received distinction between 'literary' and 'genre' fiction has never looked so flimsy
Why we need the Folio prize for fiction
Andrew Kidd: The new Folio prize is judged by our best authors, critics and readers: who better to identify the outstanding books of our era?
The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle
Robert McCrum: When Man Booker prize judges are photographed planting trees with the Woodland Trust, they offer a reminder of how English fiction and prize culture is flourishing on a global scale
Penguin merger minuses could be pluses for indies
The book trade's response to the creation of Penguin Random House has been largely despairing – but there is new hope for independents
Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell is the man for this season
Thomas Penn: Hilary Mantel has created a Cromwell who will replace Thomas More in the public imagination
For a moment I really thought my husband had won the Booker. But no!
Deborah Orr: One starts out pleased to be long-listed for the prize, and ends up feeling anything other than winning is failure
In praise of … Self-consciousness
Editorial: The judges were never going to garland some high modernist yarn about madness and the first world war
The Booker prize judges let us down
Jacques Testard: Another prize for Hilary Mantel was unnecessary, and a missed opportunity to invigorate the books world
Open thread: Who are the great modern English prose writers?
In pronouncing Hilary Mantel the winner of the Man Booker prize 2012, the chairman of the judges declared Mantel is 'greatest modern English prose writer' but which other authors are in contention for such an accolade?