Anita Mason obituary
Other Lives: Booker prize-shortlisted novelist and creative writing lecturer
Jill Paton Walsh obituary
Children’s author who turned to writing for adults and was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1994 for Knowledge of Angels
Tom Maschler obituary
Booker prize founder and publisher of some of the greats of 20th-century fiction
A Brief History of Seven Killings is shocking but not gratuitous
The Kingston, Jamaica, that Marlon James depicts in the mid-1970s may be fiction, but it is drawn from hard and bloody fact
Reading group: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is our October book
Its huge cast and range of styles has not stopped this study of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley winning global acclaim. I think we’ll enjoy it, too
Charges against Tsitsi Dangarembga must be dropped, argue writers
The Zimbabwean novelist, shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize for This Mournable Body, is accused of intending to incite public violence in Harare
‘Writing a novel is like wading through wet sand, at night, in a storm’: John Banville on The Sea
The novelist, who won the 2005 Booker prize for this novel, recalls the childhood holidays that inspired him
Hilary Mantel’s latest novel is not worthy of the Booker? If that’s the way you feel …
So much of the publishing industry is shaped by pure emotion – and the Booker prize is no exceptionn
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi review – electrifyingly truthful
When does self-determination become selfishness? This intelligent Booker-shortlisted debut examines the legacy of a toxic mother
Hilary Mantel: I am ‘disappointed but freed’ by Booker decision
Two time winner, previously a favourite to win with the third novel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, says books ‘surf on the tide of the times’
Bernardine Evaristo: living as a lesbian made me stronger
Booker prize winner recalls angry decade as part of ‘counter-cultural, black womanist’ community
Judging the Booker prize: ‘These books are about living under intense pressure’
In a year that saw us confined to our homes, the 2020 shortlist looks at how to preserve love and humanity in difficult times, writes judge Sameer Rahim
Most diverse Booker prize shortlist ever as Hilary Mantel misses out
With no room for Mantel’s conclusion to her Wolf Hall trilogy, the six finalists also include four debuts
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: ‘For a long time I believed that Hogwarts actually existed’
The winner of the 2020 International Booker on struggling through Proust and being terrified of Roald Dahl’s Witches
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook review – a dazzling debut
A community of strangers attempt to live in a natural world made inhospitable by the climate crisis in this tale of survival and strife