Booker Prize shortlist: two former winners in running for £50,000 prize
Scottish author Douglas Stuart, who won with Shuggie Bain in 2020, is back with John of John, and Jamaican writer Marlon James, who won in 2015 with A Brief History of Seven Killings, returns with The Disappearers
Trespasses author Louise Kennedy: ‘I lived on adrenaline all my life from kitchens’
The author on her new novel, Stations, moving south from the North, and how she ‘hired’ Gillian Anderson
Kevin Powers: ‘I was in the US army. I knew I was going to have to go to war’
The author on his new first World War novel, how he felt when 9/11 happened, and Virginia as a microcosm of the US
Two Irish writers on BBC National Short Story Award shortlist
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages
Nicole Flattery awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Award doubles to €20,000 as Ireland’s oldest literary prize marks 50th anniversary
Elizabeth Wassell Montague: ‘My new novel was partly inspired by the mystery of eating disorders’
The writer on new novel At the Villa Celeste; her late husband, the poet John Montague; and the importance of ‘Call me Ishmael’
Sebastian Barry: ‘My mother was interesting, extravagant. It was difficult to be a child of such a person’
The author on his latest novel, The Newer World, his difficult relationship with his parents, and feeling out of place growing up as a Dublin Protestant
The Fallen by Louise Brangan on $75,000 Cundill History Prize shortlist
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
Daisy Johnson: ‘I like writing about the entanglements of family’
The youngest ever Booker Prize shortlisted author on her new novel, Long Wave
The best new books to look out for in autumn 2026
Novels by Sebastian Barry, Louise Kennedy, Barbara Kingsolver and Marlon James; Nikita Hand tells her story, Vincent Browne’s Haughey biography – and much more
New Orleans lawyer wins The Moth Short Story Prize 2026
Judge Wendy Erskine said: ‘This is a mesmerising story told in a tender, unhurried way by a poised and talented writer. It’s poetic and has a beautiful toughness’
Author Naeem Murr: ‘My stories emerge out of my Irish mother’s silence and the silence of my dead father’
The writer on Gaza-themed new novel Every Exit Brings You Home, not being from anywhere in particular, and the ‘terrifying’ reality of Ice in Chicago
Culture Night Dublin’s literary highlights
Books newsletter: tomorrow’s pages; Slow Horses; Paul Howard live; Jamie O’Connell memoir; Kevin Gildeas Brilliant Bookshop; Samuel Beckett’s Stirrings Still; Bobby Sands play; Elizabeth Wassell Montague; Project Children: The Legacy
How to Train Your Dragon author: ‘I have always liked the idea of an animal you could talk to’
Author and illustrator Cressida Cowell on the latest of her ‘fantasy’ books that pretend to be ‘history’ books
Richard Ford headlines Write By The Sea
Books newsletter: tomorrow’s pages; Katriona O’Sullivan book deal; Heaney-Miłosz Residency; Celebrating Are You Somebody?; Look North campaign; Grace Wells poetry award