Booker prize shortlist 2011: who do you think will be on it?

Here's my prediction for the final six - what's yours?

Back to work: The books you, er, read

You've been away but never quite got round to reading those Booker short listed novels? Here's a quick guide to make you appear supremely well-read

It takes judgment, not taste, to pick a Booker winner

Rick Gekoski: The challenge facing this year's Booker judges reminds us that recognising excellence in literature is about far more than personal opinion

This Booker prize is too much of a thriller

Alison Flood: Is Philip Hensher right to suggest that a panel of thriller writers have ignored the stronger claims of science fiction for the Booker prize?

Booker prize longlist finds surprises

Justine Jordan: Alongside a couple of predictable choices, this year's longlist contains some very unexpected reading

Here’s our Booker dozen – what’s yours?

Hollinghurst, Enright and Barnes head our predictions for tomorrow's longlist – but what are your tips for Booker glory?

Booker club: Sacred Hunger

Sam Jordison: Barry Unsworth's parable of capitalism aboard a slave ship is told with vigour and conviction

Why does Philip Roth provoke such strong reaction?

Man Booker judge Carmen Callil quit after the decision to award Philip Roth the international prize; William Skidelsky and Alex Clark debate what makes the veteran novelist so divisive

Philip Roth is one of the great artists of the novel, warts and all

Jonathan Jones: Carmen Callil says he goes 'on and on about the same subject'. I call it a particular landscape of memory and imagination

Beryl Bainbridge deserves her Booker, but she was never robbed

Sam Jordison: Bainbridge's repeated disappointments as a shortlisted author resulted from bad luck, not conspiracy

Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar – review

Hisham Matar's timely second novel is a Libyan father-son tale in search of a happy ending, writes Tim Adams

Booker club: The English Patient

Sam Jordison: Michael Ondaatje's novel was a joint winner of the 1992 prize, but its brilliance is such you can understand why Barry Unsworth's has been rather eclipsed

This week’s arts diary

Charlotte Higgins: From gambling dancers to X-rated opera, here are this week's top stories

Which Bainbridge novel should win the Best of Beryl Booker?

Beryl Bainbridge was shortlisted five times for the Booker prize but never won it. Her chance has now come, posthumously, with a public vote on their favourite Bainbridge novel

Booker club: The Famished Road

Sam Jordison: Ben Okri's dreamlike tale of post-colonial Nigeria has many fans, but for me it was a long nightmare