Frank Wynne reviews Our City That Year, by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell; The Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof; and The Accidentals by Guadelupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey
Novels by Paul Lynch, Michael Crummey, Selva Almeda, Gerta Blees, Daniel Mason and Percival Everett have made the cut
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Sligo in 2021, published There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
In the penultimate instalment of her series on women’s writing, Paula McGrath focuses on the second half of the 1990s
Nero Book Awards judges praise novel for ‘sheer quality of its writing ... brilliant dialogue ... characters ... wit and humour’
Novelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinner
British writer Samantha Harvey on winning of the Booker Prize for Orbital, taking Earth for granted, coping with insomnia and her Irish connections
‘A book about a wounded world’ set on International Space Station is one of the shortest to win £50,000 award
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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
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
Two women, each with their own traumatic past, are thrown together in this persuasive debut novel
Writer won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian
The simplicity of the sentences in the Booker shortlisted novel brings to mind an unpolished stone
Normal People author’s title sold almost 12,000 copies in first five days on market
‘Literary recognition is often still reserved for men’ observes judge Sara Collins as record number of women make six-strong shortlist
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
Paige Reynolds argues women tend to adopt apparently realist modes of fiction but that experimentalism still creeps in
She had asked me several times over the years to do a follow-up to The Spinning Heart
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
The judges called Mayo writer’s Wild Houses ‘a propulsive, darkly comic account of misadventure in a small Irish town’
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Prof Shovlin said, ‘Five years feels something like maturity for the prize and we were delighted to see, once again, a very strong field’
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
Humourless narrator is difficult to root for in this novel set in Fife, Scotland
Irish author says he wonders what kind of writer he will be when his ‘feet touch the ground’
Maggie Nelson delves into the work and minds of other artists to create a deft and polyphonic book with multiple themes
Sunjeev Sahota’s tale of a trade union is politically charged but shifting narrative voice is a flaw
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
This novel is vintage Nicholls and shows that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step
Three socially conscious and moral storylines are interwoven with mixed results in Choice by Neel Mukherjee
There is humour and humanity in this recasting of Mark Twain’s flawed classic
Unusually varied list also includes Jonathan Escoffery’s debut, If I Survive You
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