Looking back at the Lost Booker: JG Farrell

Sam Jordison: The Lost Booker prize has brought Troubles, JG Farrell's great novel on crumbling empire, back into the spotlight - and not before time

Looking back at the Lost Booker: Nina Bawden

Sam Jordison: My first look at the contenders for the Lost Booker prize examines a classic 'Hampstead novel', Birds on the Trees

The Lost Booker: a judge tells all

As a 'Lost Booker' judge Rachel Cooke has been immersed in, and often surprised by, the best literature of 1970

Keira Knightley and Richard Gere set for Noah Baumbach’s The Emperor’s Children

Gere and Knightley look likely to play father and daughter in a film of Claire Messud's bestseller about three New Yorkers in the runup to and aftermath of 9/11

Booker club: Moon Tiger

Sam Jordison: Ludicrously patronised by reviewers, Penelope Lively's novel is actually one of the very best Booker winners ever

Why another Booker prize is a good idea

Sam Jordison: Some will be cynical, but the Lost Booker is a great chance to discover a different literary era

Lost Man Booker Prize longlist to award best omitted novel of 1970

The longlist for a new Man Booker award for novels which 'fell through the net' for 1970 is announced

The year ahead: books

McEwan, Carey and Amis look set to make it a bumper year for the men

Booker club: The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Sam Jordison: Keri Hulme's The Bone People deals with hefty issues surrounding Maori displacement. Shame it breaks down too easily into bad writing and spiritual nonsense

Guardian book club: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Sam Jordison: Told with palpable anger and scant sympathy for its characters, this is a powerful novel but I confess that I struggled to really appreciate it