Booker prize judges should be applauded for favouring eccentricity and invention
Justine Jordan: Many observers thought this year's longlist would favour the big hitters – hearteningly, they were wrong
Booker prize longlist 2012: what do you think?
The Man Booker prize 2012 longlist has just been announced. We'll have the full news story up as soon as we can; meanwhile, here's the list. What do you make of it?
Alan Hollinghurst: ‘The Booker can drive people mad’
When Alan Hollinghurst's celebrated The Stranger's Child was omitted from the Booker prize's shortlist, many questioned the award's credibility. Twelve months on, as the book is published in paperback, Britain's great stylist breaks his silence on the issue, writes Rachel Cooke
Locating the books with the strongest sense of place
The Ondaatje prize shortlist includes novels from Rahul Bhattacharya and Teju Cole, but which are your favourite books which evoke 'the spirit of a place'?
Third of Australia’s top prize-winning books out of print
Alison Flood: Twenty of the 53 winners of the Miles Franklin award are no longer in print – is the Booker in similarly rough shape?
Should judges always pick a winner?
The Pulitzer prize for fiction will not be awarded this year after the jury couldn't raise a majority for any of the candidates. But is this such a bad thing? Alex Clark and Nick Fraser talk it through
Writer Idol gives books prizes the Simon Cowell treatment
Billy Mills: Move over Booker and Pulitzer prizes ... there's a new talent show coming to the West Cork literary festival. Writers, are you ready to face the judges?
Booker’s double prizewinner adds to the lustre of county Durham’s Silver Swan
First it was Mark Twain. Now Peter Carey draws inspiration from the beautiful automaton in the Bowes Museum
Anne Enright: ‘Love is a great punishment for desire’
The Booker-winning Irish novelist talks to Elizabeth Day about infidelity, Ireland's financial crisis and combining writing with motherhood
Salman Rushdie: a literary giant still beset by bigots
Profile: The acclaimed author, who is publishing a long-awaited memoir of his decade in hiding from a murderous fatwa, finds himself threatened once more by fanatics over The Satanic Verses
A publishing broadside from the streets of Hebden Bridge
Arthritic London publishers. Agents stuck in rusting tramlines. Come north, talented young writers, says guest blogger Kevin Duffy, and the Yorkshire Pennines will make your name.
Why flatpack fiction will always be two dimensional
As the Booker shortlist proved, too many modern novels are assembled for a market
From the archive, 8 November 1975: Masterpieces, medicine and bedside tables
Originally published in the Guardian on 8 November 1975: Joyce's Nora was what you would call a scrubber. I have been reading the new biography of Joyce for a Punch review and I have turned into Joyce. But where's my Nora with the sexy drawers and bubble pipe?
From Booker to Bafta: do arts awards matter?
The awards season, with all its squabbles, is under way. Actor Diana Quick and Poetry Society chief Judith Palmer discuss winning, losing, and marching off in a huff
Don’t confuse ‘readability’ with dumbing down
Graham Joyce: Jeanette Winterson's criticism of the Booker prize and her narrow definition of literature is nothing more than cultural elitism