Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be getting the help of successful authors to explain everything would-be writers need to know. This is the first step to your debut novel

An online campaign wants to get readers to seek out women authors, whether new, overlooked or forgotten

Now the award is open to all English-language writers, will the big names inherit the literary earth?

Kevin Barry’s wonderful novel is a worthy winner of the Impac; but it was chosen from a shortlist that did not reflect the quality of the wider literary field

Deborah Levy’s recent novel was declined for being ‘too literary’. A Booker-nomination followed