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The best books of the year

19.11.09
Our reviewers name the titles that have meant the most to them over the past 12 months... more

Hunter's one-ape show in Kafka's Monkey

20.03.09
Shoulders hunched, knees jerked forward, one low-hanging hand contorted, Kathryn Hunter gazes at us with swivel-eyed interest in Kafka's Monkey.... more

The age-old game of literary prizes

07.01.09
This year’s Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual... more

The age-old game of literary prizes

07.01.09
This year’s Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual... more

Tipped for £30,000 prize, the Outcast writer

06.01.09
A London writer who toiled for years without success is now being tipped for one of the biggest prizes in literature... more

Lucky 13 Londoners compete for Costa prize

19.11.08
Thirteen London writers from first-time authors to publishing veteran Diana Athill, now 90, are in the running for the Costa Book Awards this year... more

Tiger burns so bright for Booker winner Adiga

15.10.08
The experience of being an immigrant fuelled the writing of The White Tiger, the debut novel by Indian writer Aravind Adiga which has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize... more

Booker judge criticises 'highbrow' male panels

14.10.08
One of this year's Man Booker Prize judges has criticised male academics who sit on literary panels, claiming they pick "highbrow" novels over readable ones... more

Linda Grant leads charge as the old guard are left off Booker list

09.09.08
The latest epic from Salman Rushdie and the hotly tipped story of post-9/11 America by Joseph O'Neill have failed to make the Man Booker shortlist... more

Rushdie in running to win his second Booker of the year

29.07.08
Salman Rushdie, already winner of this year's Best of Booker Prize for Midnight's Children and shortlisted three times previously, is once again among those in line to win the literary award... more

A literary love-in that has no place in London

04.07.08
We are all obliged these days to talk a lot of rubbish about how great cultural life is in the regions... more

Storytelling the Irish way

06.09.07
It doesn't take long to realise that The Pride of Parnell Street slots effortlessly into the proud Irish storytelling tradition of JM Synge, says Fiona Mountford.... more

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