Roddy Doyle to chair 2025 Booker Prize judging panel alongside Sarah Jessica Parker
Novelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinner
Booker Prize
Booker winner Samantha Harvey: ‘My grandad bought land in Donegal. He was afraid of nuclear war, and thought Ireland would be exempt’
British writer Samantha Harvey on winning of the Booker Prize for Orbital, taking Earth for granted, coping with insomnia and her Irish connections
‘Small, strange, beautiful’ Orbital by Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize
‘A book about a wounded world’ set on International Space Station is one of the shortest to win £50,000 award
Booker Prize 2024: who do you think will win?
Have your say on which of the six novels on the shortlist should emerge victorious
Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’
A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
Sam Thompson: ‘I really don’t think there is a distinction to be made between writing for adults and writing for children’
Thompson’s new book, The Forest Yet to Come, is part of the Wolfstongue saga, which began as a direct response to his son’s difficulty with speech
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden: Beguiling love story told in language that entertains and enthrals
Two women, each with their own traumatic past, are thrown together in this persuasive debut novel
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024: South Korean author Han Kang wins
Writer won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood: ‘Bone-bare’ prose offers the space to dwell in questions
The simplicity of the sentences in the Booker shortlisted novel brings to mind an unpolished stone
Sally Rooney’s novel Intermezzo is fastest-selling book in Republic this year
Normal People author’s title sold almost 12,000 copies in first five days on market
Booker Prize 2024 shortlist: women dominate but sole male author is a likely favourite
‘Literary recognition is often still reserved for men’ observes judge Sara Collins as record number of women make six-strong shortlist
Rachel Kushner: ‘Ireland is my favourite place to go as a writer. It’s completely magical’
The US author, whose new novel Creation Lake is longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, on US politics, the war in Gaza and her love of Ireland
Modernism in Irish Women’s Writing review: Great insights into work of female writers
Paige Reynolds argues women tend to adopt apparently realist modes of fiction but that experimentalism still creeps in
Donal Ryan: ‘Stop apologising for yourself,’ is one of the last things my mother said to me
She had asked me several times over the years to do a follow-up to The Spinning Heart
Elif Shafak: ‘I wanted to honour water. I think water is the story of our times’
Prolific British-Turkish author on her latest novel, colonial archaeology, the plight of the Yazidis, her sense of belonging and the complexity of Turkish culture
Booker Prize 2024 longlist: Irish author Colin Barrett makes 13-strong list
The judges called Mayo writer’s Wild Houses ‘a propulsive, darkly comic account of misadventure in a small Irish town’
I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
John McGahern Prize for debut Irish fiction 2023 shortlist revealed
Prof Shovlin said, ‘Five years feels something like maturity for the prize and we were delighted to see, once again, a very strong field’
Best new crime: Novels from Oliver Harris, Scarlett Thomas, Lucy Foley, Andrea Mara and Hugo Rifkind
Fictional summer feasts set against cyber warfare and leaks, Greek island tragedy, a Dorset country retreat, Foxrock domestic noir, and the world of guns and Scotland’s shabby rich
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands: From pishpuddles to pee-the-beds
Humourless narrator is difficult to root for in this novel set in Fife, Scotland
‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’
Irish author says he wonders what kind of writer he will be when his ‘feet touch the ground’
Like Love by Maggie Nelson review: wise, genre-defying observations from a very sharp thinker
Maggie Nelson delves into the work and minds of other artists to create a deft and polyphonic book with multiple themes
The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota: Brave exploration of class and race from multiple angles
Sunjeev Sahota’s tale of a trade union is politically charged but shifting narrative voice is a flaw
Good timing pays off again for Cecelia Ahern
Paul McGinley pitches up in Ballsbridge; BBC Northern Ireland journalists get good gigs; Sharon Horgan enjoys literary success; and Fianna Fail decides to run new and not so new names
You Are Here by David Nicholls: A highly relatable love story of significance
This novel is vintage Nicholls and shows that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step
Choice by Neel Mukherjee: Novel of important themes hampered by didactic tone
Three socially conscious and moral storylines are interwoven with mixed results in Choice by Neel Mukherjee
James by Percival Everett: Reimagining Huck Finn
There is humour and humanity in this recasting of Mark Twain’s flawed classic
Sebastian Barry and Emma Donoghue shortlisted for Dublin Literary Award 2024
Unusually varied list also includes Jonathan Escoffery’s debut, If I Survive You
International Booker Prize 2024 longlist announced: 13 translated novels feature
Nominated books include Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare and The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
Irish writers Anne Enright, Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan named on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Anne Enright, Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan in running for £30,000 fiction award
Fiction in translation: novels from Bulgaria, Japan, Brazil, Spain and a Franco-Korean author
Rónán Hession reviews a selection that includes an impressive work by International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospidinov
Why is the announcement of a new novel by Sally Rooney being greeted with such a fanfare?
When the author’s previous novel was released in 2021 it sold 40,000 copies in just five days
Everyone loves Ireland! Why is Irish culture so hot right now?
From cinema and theatre to television, folk music and literature, Ireland is enjoying unprecedented creative boom
Dublin Literary Award longlist: four Irish in running but Demon Copperhead leads field
Sebastian Barry, Joseph O’Connor, Claire Kilroy and Emma Donoghue up for €100,000 prize
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