Percival Everett

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

Mon Sept 16 2024 - 19:30

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’

Tue Jul 30 2024 - 14:00

The best books of 2024 so far: writers and critics choose their favourite reads

Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Lucy Caldwell’s Openings, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits and Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments are among the novels with multiple selections

Sat Jul 06 2024 - 05:15

Summer reading: 21 great books for the holidays

This list has something for everyone with books covering dystopian realities, historical settings, criminal capers and familiar places

Sat Jun 22 2024 - 05:30

Fifteen great audiobooks for your summer holidays and beyond

From Ann Patchett read by Meryl Streep to Anne Enright read by the author, there are plenty of books to curl up with this summer

Sun Jun 09 2024 - 05:15

James by Percival Everett: Reimagining Huck Finn

There is humour and humanity in this recasting of Mark Twain’s flawed classic

Fri Apr 19 2024 - 05:00

Percival Everett: ‘What’s amazing to me is this denial that this history belongs to all of us’

The veteran novelist, whose book Erasure became this year’s Oscar-winning American Fiction, on why he decided to retell Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Sat Apr 06 2024 - 05:30