Booker Prize 2024: who do you think will win?
Have your say on which of the six novels on the shortlist should emerge victorious
John Boyne: ‘I’ve reviewed books by friends and occasionally by antagonists but there’s only one I regret’
Author on latest book in his four-part cycle about abuse and inviting JK Rowling to his dream dinner party
Vona Groarke wins 2024 Michel Déon Prize
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; PEN Heaney Prize and Waterstones Book of the Year shortlists; Writers in the Attic; Robert Fisk archive at TCD; Little Island’s Carnegie success
Suad Aldarra awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Syrian-Irish writer’s memoir I Don’t Want to Talk About Home was published in 2022
Author Eliza Clark: ‘When you live in London you’re constantly at risk of seeing something mad and upsetting’
She’s Always Hungry author on her dislike of ‘forced’ short stories, her love of Prague and the best way to order your books
Luke Morgan wins Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award
Books newsletter: preview of Saturday’s pages; Caroline Madden book deal; Nicola Rose O’Hara film deal; John McGahern Prize deadline
Felicity Hayes-McCoy: ‘So many of Ireland’s revolutionary women felt disillusioned and betrayed after the State was set up’
The author on the genre she calls ‘uplit’, the ‘perfect balance’ of living between London and the Kerry Gaeltacht, and her admiration for Greta Thunberg
John Banville: ‘I expected to be dead, or at least gaga, by now’
Author on his new book, The Drowned, his enduring appetite for writing as he nears 80, and the most remarkable place he has visited
A tribute to Nell McCafferty
Books newsletter: Irish Writers’ Weekend in London; Kit de Waal to judge Women’s Prize for Fiction; Oscar Wilde exhibition; Korean prize for Anna Burns
Ian Rankin: ‘Serious writers are attracted to the crime novel because it takes on morally complex themes in a digestible way’
The Rebus creator on his flawed police inspector’s fall from grace, the Jekyll and Hyde sides of his hometown Edinburgh and the genius of Muriel Spark
Circling The Square hits the spot
Books newsletter: Forward prizes; Baillie Gifford shortlist; Claire Keegan wins Lenz Prize; Bookshop of the Year; Writer of Courage 2024; Tanya Sweeney book deal; Leaves Festival; Macavity Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024: South Korean author Han Kang wins
Writer won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian
‘We used to be invisible as Irish speakers in Belfast but there’s a new confidence now to shout it from the rooftops’
Children’s writer Máire Zepf talks about her books and TV work, and how Kneecap bringing ‘beautiful, real Belfast Irish’ to the big screen has been powerful
Anne Haverty to give Stinging Fly annual lecture
Books newsletter: Tomorrow’s pages; Irish judges for Nero awards; Rooney Writer Fellow; ISLA, Bram Stoker, IMRAM and Murder One festivals; Irish Book Week; Publishers for Palestine
Sally Rooney’s novel Intermezzo is fastest-selling book in Republic this year
Normal People author’s title sold almost 12,000 copies in first five days on market