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
‘Literary recognition is often still reserved for men’ observes judge Sara Collins as record number of women make six-strong shortlist
The judges called Mayo writer’s Wild Houses ‘a propulsive, darkly comic account of misadventure in a small Irish town’
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
This list has something for everyone with books covering dystopian realities, historical settings, criminal capers and familiar places
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
There is humour and humanity in this recasting of Mark Twain’s flawed classic
The veteran novelist, whose book Erasure became this year’s Oscar-winning American Fiction, on why he decided to retell Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Narrative crackles with fixated mathematical brilliance and propulsive wordplay
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices