A good man in a time of terror
Booker-nominee Ronan Bennett's historical tale, Havoc in its Third Year, is chillingly modern, says Paul Taylor.
Bodies of evidence
Kathryn Hughes on Ronan Bennett's evocative tale of power and Puritanism, the Booker-longlisted Havoc in its Third Year.
Satire on the eighties shines in an open field
Early lead in Booker prize 2004 for Hollinghurst and Mitchell.
Bizarre twist to strange tale as repentant rogue wins over Booker prize judges
Winner faces big cash rewards - and a queue of debtors.
Novelist Dirty Pierre comes clean: I was a conman
Man Booker favourite admits years of deceit.
Look back with a touch of traditionalist despair
Shaun de Waal: The Booker Prize's romance with Commonwealth writers apparently continues with the shortlisting, for this year's award, of South African Damon Galgut, for his novel The Good Doctor.
Snubbed unknown sweeps giants off shortlist
The Booker Prize judges have ignored the uncrowned king of English letters and two past winners in favour of an unpublished writer.
It’s Brick Lane by any other name
Nervous US publishers nearly retitled Booker-listed novel as 'Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers'.
A prize bunch of literary egos
Booker veteran Martyn Goff has revealed endless chapters of dumbing down, feuding, swearing and farce.
Accent on passionate preferences for regional voices
Claire Armitstead: The chairman's comment speaks volumes. The longlist, said John Carey, "reflects the passionate preferences of the individual judges".
Amis survives hatchet job on day of the long knives for other star writers
It was virtually a day of the long knives for a clutch of established writers who would normally have expected to move into the semi-final stage of the Booker prize.