‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize
Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize
Offseason by Avigayl Sharp review – wry comedy of a frazzled teacher
Sharp’s deadpan debut reads like a gen Z update on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, playfully skewering modern literary tropes
Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard review – the stories behind the Windrush scandal
In this warm and tender debut, the family of Barbados-born Lucinda must try to document her decades in Britain after the Home Office threatens her with deportation
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Ian Watson obituary
Innovative and award-winning science-fiction writer whose novels extended to horror, fantasy and the Warhammer franchise
Cast Away by Francesca de Tores review – gripping portrait of the real-life Robinson Crusoe
This fascinating novel about 18th-century privateer Alexander Selkirk, abandoned on a tiny island in the South Pacific, becomes a revelatory meditation on humanity
Songwriters on the Run by Robert Forster review – Go-Betweens frontman hits a dud note
There’s little melody or rhythm in Forster’s prose, while the dialogue is plodding and full of exposition
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood audiobook review – a shore thing
A wannabe folk singer’s humdrum life as a shrimp catcher is upended by the arrival of a mysterious American stranger in the Booker-listed tale
Why food is the real star of my new novel
From James Bond’s breakfasts to the kimchi fried rice in Crying in H Mart, a book’s food can often linger longer in our memories than its characters or storylines
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans review – immensely enjoyable return of the epistolary novel
This moving work about an irascible woman in her 70s who conducts her most intimate relationships through letters has been shortlisted for the Women’s prize
‘Stunned and shocked’: Ingrid Horrocks wins top prize at New Zealand’s Ockham awards for her fiction debut
All Her Lives is only the fifth short story collection to win the prestigious NZ$65,000 prize in 58 years
#MeToo-themed novel wins inaugural reader-led award worth £50,000
British author Donna Fisher has won the Libraro prize for the unpublished manuscript of her ‘provocative and timely’ book, Sheep’s Clothing
Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion
Radical hope and rage combine in this tale of ecological precarity and resistance among sex workers on a brothel island