In praise of… summer reading
Editorial: At more than 600 pages, Hilary Mantel's latest novel could last (and enhance) a fortnight, which only goes to show that successful summer reading must start with painful selection
The Booker longlist: what do you think?
Sarah Crown: These are the 13 runners and riders for this year's literary Grand National. Who are you backing?
Booker club: Life and Times of Michael K
Sam Jordison: JM Coetzee's first Booker winner about passive resistance in South Africa is elegantly crafted, but its protagonist is more clumsy plot device than character – I'm surprised it won
Alice Munro is a true great
Lisa Allardice: Hopefully, the Booker means the broadest possible audience will now know about the greatest short story writer in the world
Booker club: Schindler’s Ark
Sam Jordison: One could question whether Thomas Keneally's book is fiction, but it's undoubtably essential reading
Booker club: Rites of Passage
Sam Jordison: William Golding appears in uncharacteristically breezy form with his Booker winner. For a while
Booker club: Offshore
Sam Jordison: A slight but witty tale of middle-class Londoners, this isn't awful, but it should never have beaten both Naipaul and Golding to the prize
Booker club: The Sea, the Sea
Sam Jordison: The book that finally won Iris Murdoch a Booker is at least as ludicrous as it is brilliant
You really must read . . .
The Booker prizewinner, Barack Obama's memoir or an introduction to the meaning of life - which books stood out for you in 2008?
Booker club: Staying On
A tragicomic portrait of an English marriage at the tail end of the Raj
The Booker prize winner: Aravind Adiga
In October Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize with his first novel, The White Tiger
Booker club: Saville
Sam Jordison: A potentially absurd tale of a miner father and his writer son remains vivid and captivating throughout its 500+ pages
A Nobel example for our books prize judges
Sam Jordison: The 'African Nobel' has gone to a fantasy novel for teenagers. Shame it could never win a Booker
Who came runner-up in the Booker prize?
Alison Flood: Portillo has spilled the beans on this year's Booker judging debate. Pity the writers who just missed out...
Roars of anger
Aravind Adiga's debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Booker prize this week. But its unflattering portrait of India as a society racked by corruption and servitude has caused a storm in his homeland. He tells Stuart Jeffries why he wants to expose the country's dark side